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CAREER SUMMARY

Traditional Illustration:
Book (children's / fiction & non fiction), book cover, games, CD cover and editorial illustration.
Character development.
Painting, illustration and pattern design on and for high end cakes.

Digital Illustration:
Retail for clothing & accessories.
Product / label and logo illustration.
Greeting card design.

Graphic / Visual Design (senior):
CI & logo design, advertising, brochures & marketing material, product labels.
Web site development, visual design and production incl. HTML and CSS coding.

Painting:
Mural and Prop painting.
Classic oil painting: pets, portraits, figure, stillife, wildlife, landscape



PUBLISHING COMPANIES

ABDO Publishing / MN
Bohem Press/ Switzerland
cbj / Germany
Chinderwaelt / Switzerland
Coppenrath Verlag / Germany
Loewe Verlag / Germany
On Your Own Publications / NY
Publications International / IL
Random House / Germany
Ravensburger / Germany
Scholastic for Dreamworks / USA
Scholastic / NY
Schwager & Steinlein Verlag / Germany
ScottForesman / USA
Sundance Publishing / USA
Visionmiro for Macmillan / USA



FREELANCE CLIENTS


Acroscope, LLC / CA
Advertising Circus / Germany
Avallain AG / Switzerland
Baby Botanicals / CA
Better World Advertising / SF
Brilliant Ideas LLC / CA
Bulletproof Aprons / SF
CentiMani / Italy
Charlie's Place / SF
DK Design / SF
Fanantique / France
F.J.Warren / Germany
GivingGlobal / SF
Goddess Group / CA
Goofball Productions / LA
Karnath & Partner / Germany
Learning Media Limited / New Zealand
Mightyfine / CA
Mike Z Design / LA
Niles Film / CA
Perfect Endings Corp. / CA
The Outdoor Recreation Group / LA


FULL TIME POSITIONS

8/99 - 9/00: Senior art director and creative director world wide
Viviance new education inc.,
online education company / San Francisco / USA.
Developing graphic design departments in San Francisco and Austin / USA. Quality control worldwide, supervising corporate design projects and developing look and feel for projects and company appearance. Linking between all graphic design departments worldwide.

1/98 - 7/99: Graphic designer and art director
Viviance AG new education,
multimedia company / St.Gallen / Switzerland.
Graphical concepts, computer illustration and screen design for web sites, Interface design for a complex new software package, CI redesign, marketing material and print preparation.
Developing graphic departments in different countries in Europe. Training new employees and quality control of graphic and visual design.



EDUCATION

2001: Post grad studies in Illustration Design (MfA program) at Academy of Art College / San Francisco / USA
1998: Diploma in Communication Design (FH) from Fachhochschule Mainz1 / Mainz / Germany
1995: International studies in Illustration Design (BfA program) at Academy of Art College / San Francisco / USA



ILLUSTRATION SKILLS

Oil, acrylics, gouach and watercolor painting, dyes coloring, caran d'ache, pastels, woodcut, etching, collage, pencil, color pencil, ink and charcoal drawing. And any of these mixed media.
See computer knowledge for digital illustration.



COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash,
Microsoft Office Package,
HTML and CSS programming,
MacIntosh and PC platforms.



AWARDS

2007: Top 3 in the BUELL Super TT Trickout Contest, USA
2006: "Certificate of Merit", Illustration West 44, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles , USA
2001: "Best Graduate Illustration", Annual Spring Show of the Academy of Art College / San Francisco, USA
2001: "Best of Show", Annual Spring Show of the Academy of Art College San Francisco, USA



EXHIBITIONS

4/1-
7/06:
"Illustration West 44", Group show by the "Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles", Billy Shire Gallery / Culver City, USA
3-4/03: "Pet Portraits", Animal Art Gallery / Menlo Park, USA
3/03: "Stillife, Pets & Fairy Tales", Bean There / San Francisco, USA
3/03: "Bark for Art", Rocket Dog Rescue Fundraiser / San Francisco, USA
9/02: "Upper Grant Ave Fall Art Fair", San Francisco, USA
7/02: "Oil Paintings", Farleys / San Francisco, USA
6/02: "Fine Art & Illustration", Vesuvio Cafe / San Francisco, USA
5/02: "Art in the Alley", San Francisco, USA
10/01: "Open Studios", San Francisco, USA
5/01: "Spring Show", Academy of Art College / San Francisco, USA
9/97: "Diplom Arbeiten Ausstellung", SWF Center / Mainz, Germany
12/96: "Kuenstlermarkt", Civic Center / Mainz, Germany



LANGUAGES

Fluent in German and English.