Anthony Bratina Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Alabama Area

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area

• Create layouts, illustrations, graphics, and general artwork. Clients have included Indian Rivers magazine, Randall-Reilly Publishing, Catenya.com, Catholic Social Services, Kentuck Museum Association, the Alabama Blues Project, and Tuscaloosa Parks and Recreation.

Center For Business And Economic Research & Culverhouse Business School

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area

GRAPHICS / ILLUSTRATION / LOGOS• Work as a one-man graphics department, producing an average of 3 illustrations, 3 graphics and 7 promotional ads/teasers a week for the newspaper, magazine and official Web sites.• Helps regulate design standards of the newspaper and work with designers, photographers, writers and editors to produce compelling visuals on deadline• Work in various styles, and able to adapt illustrations to fit the tone of the campaign or medium • Able to execute graphics and illustrations digitally with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash and InDesign, as well as with more traditional methods, such as oils, acrylics, pen and ink, pencil and charcoal• Routinely illustrates health, entertainment, lifestyle, sports, commentary, breaking news, and business stories, as well as magazine covers. Work has also been featured on music albums, business and restaurant signs, T-Shirts, and other merchandising material• Plan and execute communication and marketing campaigns• Create most of the standard design features in the newspaper, and helped the newspaper sweep state design awards year after yearDESIGN/LAYOUT• Planned and executed hundreds of spreads and covers for The Tuscaloosa News and helped build the general design of the publication• Conceptualized, researched, wrote and designed special spreads for The Tuscaloosa NewsCONSULTATION/TEACHING• Coach a team of designers on ways to improve page layouts and photo manipulations while maintaining high design standards• Trains employees in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign• Routinely asked to conduct design seminars at area schools, museums, colleges and conferences and judge professional and college design contestsEVENT PLANNING & SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING• Plan, coordinate, and market the annual Monster Makeover Art Charity Show, which raised more than $25,000 for arts eduction and brought in almost 1,500 people this year.

OLINE GRAPHICS / LOGOS / DESIGN / ADOBE FLASH GRAPHICS• Produce maps, information graphics, illustrations and interactive presentations for Tidesports.com, Tuscaloosanews.com and Tusk205.com• Work with a team to design and maintain TUSK205.com• Convert print-ready images for digital display online

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Area

DESIGN/LAYOUT/ILLUSTRATION/PLANNING & ART DIRECTION• Planned and executed spreads and covers for Tuscaloosa magazine and helped build the general design of the publication. • Created templates and logos for standard and recurring sections and layouts of the magazine• Assisted photographers during photo shoots for cover and inside layouts• Assisted designers with layouts

Bachelor'S Degree, Art Studio And Art History, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Webmaster and Graphic Artist for the UAB Kaleidoscope newspaperCreated website for UAB Kaleidoscope, as well.

Adobe Flash

Completed courses in Adobe Flash

Certification, Html

Certified in basic HTML from the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Html Courses

Completed courses in HTML