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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.
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| 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.
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