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CAREER
SUMMARY
Traditional Illustration:
Book (children's / fiction & non fiction), book cover, CD cover and editorial
illustration.
Character development.
Painting / illustration on cakes.
Digital Illustration:
Retail for T-shirts / clothing & tote bags.
Product / label and logo illustration.
Greeting card designs.
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
PUBLISHING COMPANIES
| Chinderwaelt / Switzerland: |
Cover
and inlay illustrations of children's stories for CD
and MC. |
| Baumgartner
AG/ Switzerland: |
Children's
Book illustration. |
| Coppenrath Verlag / Germany: |
Children's Book, Children's
Classics and Portrait illustrations. |
| JESTmagazine / NY: |
Editorial illustration. |
| Loewe Verlag / Germany: |
Fiction and non-fiction children's book series. |
| On Your Own Publications /
NY: |
Illustrations for a City Guide
Book. |
| Publications International /
IL: |
Illustrations and cover for
children's books. |
| Random House / Germany: |
Illustrations for several non-fiction
books. |
| Scholastic for Dreamworks/USA: |
Coloring of a book accompanying an animated
feature movie. |
| Scholastic / NY: |
Children's history book series. |
| Visionmiro for Macmillan/ USA: |
Book illustrations for SS Reader Project. |
| Willow Creek / Germany: |
Book cover illustrations for
short story series. |
FREELANCE CLIENTS
1996 - present:
| Acroscope, LLC / CA: |
Logo & CI
design, website design & production. |
| Advertising Circus / Germany: |
Advertising design and product
illustration. |
| Avallain AG / Switzerland: |
CI development, brochures and
marketing material. |
| Baby Botanicals / CA: |
Logo, product label design & illustration. |
| Better World Advertising /
SF: |
Character design for advertising. |
| Brilliant Ideas LLC / CA: |
Logos & CIs, web sites and
marketing material. |
| CentiMani / Italy: |
Logo & CI design, marketing
material, website design & production. |
| Charlie’s Place /
SF: |
Mural design and painting. |
| DK Design / SF: |
Logo & CI redesign, website
design & production. |
| Fanantique / France: |
Logo and branding, product icon
development. |
| F.J.Warren / Germany: |
Fantasy book cover illustrations. |
| GivingGlobal / SF: |
Visual design, quality control
and website production. |
| Goddess Group / CA: |
T-shirt, retail illustration. |
| Goofball Productions / LA: |
Character development for children's
TV series. |
| Karnath & Partner /
Germany: |
graphic design for advertising
and CI. |
| Mightyfine / CA: |
Prop painting. |
| Mike Z Design / CA: |
Website concept, design and production. |
| Niles Film / CA: |
Logo design, matte painting
and portrait painting for a movie. |
| Perfect Endings Corp. /
CA: |
Paintings, portraits and reproductions
of artwork on cakes. |
FULL TIME
POSITIONS
| 8/99 - 9/00: |
Senior
art director and creative director worldwide
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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