Antonio D'Angelo Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

• Collaborate with Health Department colleagues including the Chief of Staff, Chief Operating Officer, leadership, and the Publications team, which produces over 1000 items per year for consumption by 8.8 million New Yorkers, to plan, implement and coordinate design of select communications materials for the agency.• Design collateral from concept to completion, across various media, including digital and print. Content includes creating assets and layouts for agency social media accounts to collaborating with the Publications team on public-facing advertisements, reports, flyers, pamphlets, booklets, signage, banners and handouts that promote agency work and expand its service delivery for public-facing Health Department programs.• Directly supervise design assistants on developing concepts that promote agency business, including flyers, handouts and brochures. Provide timely design direction, offering feedback or coaching to help build upon and improve their creative and technical skills, maximizing the quality of work produced.• Conduct strategic planning for the Bureau of Communications’ promotional design needs by creating and implementing policies that ensure all project design files are saved and packaged reliably and consistently for vendors and printing, adhering to developed project and file naming conventions.• Enforce and build upon agency branding standards and guidelines that set requirements and best practices in design with accessibility as a priority, while advising on scope and design for new programmatic endeavors, providing helpful direction and efficiency for the agency.• Define standards and practices for photo and image asset collection for the Publications team, and conduct photography research and photo-related requests, while providing guidance on image use best practices and agency standards.• Devise and deliver expedited design solutions for urgent agency business requests requiring immediate response.

New York, New York, United States

• Established elements of design, imagery and artwork for placement in quality collateral for agency events, court case exhibits and publications, spanning digital, print and web.• Digitally retouched and manipulated photographs using post-production techniques and effects in Adobe Photoshop, merging them with various other imagery to construct aesthetically appealing compositions.• Met with clients to discuss design direction, provide samples/revisions and assess overall project status in order to preserve and adhere to proposed deadlines.• Prepared final print deliverables for clients, utilizing the agency’s large scale printer and collaborating with the printing department staff, while adhering to strict design standards for their intended audiences and modes of distribution.• Created and updated HTML templates for internal monthly newsletters for Operations Training Unit.

Farmingdale, New York, United States

• Created labels and packaging designs to client specifications, often from concept to completion.•Revised and enhanced client-supplied materials and prepared print-ready files, finalizing them for commercial presses.• Supported Marketing department with creation of artwork for logos, mailers, brochures and web imagery.• Acted on behalf of the Art Director in his absence; exchanged visual direction of open projects with colleagues and staff, ensured all final artwork was sent within a timely fashion, and reviewed and approved final proofs.• Set up and conducted photo shoots for various company events and needs as well as client product shots and advertising utilizing artistic vision, creative lighting and improvised shooting techniques for varied depth of field and image focus.• Digitally revised and enhanced photographs and product materials for final artwork files; repositioned, cropped and manipulated elements, performed color-balancing.