Craig Counts Email & Phone Number

1315 2Nd St. Sw, Suite 300, Roanoke, Va 24016

Design and produce content for internal and public web site and all marketing and branding materials

I designed, built, and have maintained the website for EHS Support Services They are a mental health support company based in Roanoke, with clinics in Christiansburg, Lynchburg, Rocky Mount and Roanoke. As part of my work on this project, I photographed all of the management and corporate team for the website. I also photographed the locations, and built all of the interactivity in site using Action Script 2.0 in Adobe Flash. I work with the editor of the bimonthly newsletter for the Virginia Nursery & Landscape Association. At 82 full-color pages, this publication is more of a magazine. The editor sends me photographs each issue to choose one or more for the cover. The editor puts the articles and photos together with the ads for placement. After I design the cover, I edit the photos and ads, pulling all of the pieces together to hand over for printing.Christiansburg Printing 5/2005 ­ 6/2007 My duties ranged from consulting with new clients to develop their new company branding/ID standards to helping return clients work on new projects such as brochures, business cards, newsletters, etc. Besides editing images for my own projects, I was often asked to work on damaged and substandard images for projects for coworkers. A coworker and I were also responsible for keeping the pressmen busy by preparing press sheets to be imaged by the digital plate setter with the RIP (Raster Image Processor). Often this would involve troubleshooting problems in digital files such as text showing up incorrectly as built (CMYK) rather than pure black, poor halftones for grayscale images, and much, much more.

I was responsible for consulting with clients for startups, designing their company branding/ID/Logo. I also designed materials for new and repeat customers that included all print materials; brochures, newsletters, book jackets, business cards, journals, etc. My specialty became image editing. Customers are known to want you to reproduce some very poor images in spectacular ways. I learned a lot from the pressmen, and by following my designs literally all the way from my computer to the press. I know what works.

Bachelors, Graphic Design & Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Spring semester 2005 I worked as an intern in the university's in-house design studio, the Office of Creative.

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