Christopher Drew Email & Phone Number

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

One of the Design Directors in the Creative Services Department at EmeraldX, managing a team of Designers providing graphic support for impressions magazine / impressions expo, Modern Day Marine, Prosper Show, Digital Dealer / Dealer Magazine, National Pavement Expo, and Medtrade. This includes UX experiences in ceros, branding guidelines, magazine & supplemental issue layouts, product guides, print/web ads, app graphics, email banners, show guides, and more in support of the various brands.

Development of print and web collateral to support exhibitor sales and audience acquisition. Projects include layout of Impressions magazine, Team & Activewear supplement, Digital Decorator supplement, direct and coordinate photo shoots with models and various photographers, design of print and digital advertisements and newsletters, email and direct mail pieces via various formats, sell sheets, contracts, presentations, app graphics, website creative assets, on-site signage and other projects as necessary in support of Impressions magazine and ISS trade shows.

Alpharetta, Ga

In additional to my computer graphics skills, I have successfully completed a number of freelance illustration and design projects ranging from creating a baseball program cover for a Minor League Baseball Organization and NCAA Bowl shirt designs, to website design, family portraits, logo designs, brochures, and more. Some of my past clients include:- 2010 Armed Forces Bowl shirt designs, Dallas, TX.- 2010 Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl shirt designs, St. Petersburg, FlL.- Nautica 2010 NYC TRI shirt designs, Manhattan, N.Y.- Monmouth Park shirt designs , Oceanport, N.J.- Mud Buddy shirt designs- Tough Mudder shirt designs, Brooklyn, NY.- Sherlock Fitness, Decatur, GA.- Charlotte Krunk, ABA Basketball Team, Charlotte, N.C.- Christy Wallace Racing, Charlotte, N.C.- R&R Group, Suwanee, GA.- EIM Staffing & Consulting, Atlanta, GA.- Atlanta United Tae Kwon Do, Decatur, GA.- Cobblestone Construction, LLC., Sugar Hill, GA.- Atl E-ticket, Atlanta, GA- Liquid Soundz Inc., Suwanee, GA.- Atlanta United Tae Kwon Do, Decatur, GA.- Elite Real Estate, Atlanta, GA.- Parker Chandler Homes, Atlanta, GA.- Grey Hare Catering Co., Alexandria, VA.- Atlanta Housing Authority, Atlanta, GA.- Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot, Red Lodge, MT.- Georgia Perimeter University, Atlanta, GA.- Richmond Braves, Minor League Baseball Organization, Richmond, VA.- BoPipes, Fredericksburg, VA.- Good Bones, LLC, Fredericksburg, VA.

Greater Atlanta Area

Graphic Designer for Littler (Littler Mendelson, P.C.), the largest Employment Law Firm in the United States with additional locations internationally. Providing Graphic Design of PowerPoint Presentations, HTML announcements, electronic invitations, posters, map overlays, print collateral, magazine advertisements, and other projects as necessary.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Design of brochures, icons, and flyers for print and digital media in both the US and UK markets• Slides and presentations created for executives within the Senior Management Team• Case Studies for findings on various Classrooms around the globe in print format

• Graphics support such as packaging design, posters, displays, and more• Die-lines were used for layout of product labels communicating directly with the vendors• Designed corrugate box layouts based on existing or creation of new die lines• Creating both ITF barcodes and UPC (A) barcodes• Redesign and update entire line of yearly product catalogs

Developed, designed, and maintained a training website for internal use which consisted of about 35 pages with various hyperlinks to an internal shared drive as well as training and production sites. This site was updated about once a week, as some of the production links would change, and some were added, and was maintained / created using Photoshop CS3 and Microsoft FrontPage.- Other tasks included the design of brochures, handouts, trade show displays, wall displays, maintaining a photo archive, photography, certificate and award production, PowerPoint briefings, creation of templates, style sheets, and design layouts, all produced within CDC’s guidelines.- Designed the Program Logo in 2003 which is currently used.- Received Employee of the Month in March of 2004, after the initial creation of the intranet site, and certificates of award during this tenure for contributions and efforts towards the program, as well as Nomination for COTPER Award in 2007 and 2008.

Provided graphic assistance to the Joint Precision Strike Demonstration Project Office (JPSD/Night Vision) in the Graphics Department. Found solutions for Theater Precision Strike Operations, Rapid Terrain Visualization, Joint Continuous Strike Environment, and Joint Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance to create documents ranging from briefings, presentations, posters, and logos. Programs used at this position include Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word Programs, In Design, Pagemaker, Powerpoint, on both PC and Macintosh systems. - Printed, maintained, and provided support for a large format printer.

Bfa, Communication Arts & Design

The Communication Arts & Design Program required an application process during the second semester, as only 100 students were accepted per.

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Art Honor Society