Debra Nord Email & Phone Number

40 Marcus Blvd., Hauppauge, New York 11788

• Island Harvest is Long Island’s largest hunger-relief organization. As Island Harvest’s first on-staff graphic designer, I used my vast knowledge to build a productive graphic design workflow beginning with creating.
• Designed and created a full range of promotional, instructional, and corporate communications including: annual reports, email templates, flyers, tri-folds, booklets, posters, newspaper and magazine ads, office.
• Designed and built email templates using OpenMoves Email Marketing.
• Conceptualized and established a recognizable visual brand identity
• Developed a “Brand Kit” containing a Brand Guideline Booklet, templates to ensure consistency of brand tone, and logos and other brand graphics
• Advised other staff members on adherence to Island Harvest visual brand and the branding guidelines of partnering organizations.

Plainview, New York

• Welcome Wagon is a state-of-the-art marketing company using world-class digital print-on-demand equipment to produce and mail 740K personalized books and postcards each month. This high volume workflow was the perfect.
• Conceived, designed, and produced advertising pieces to meet the needs of 100’s of diverse clients. Handled concept and development of visual look including layout, typography, color schemes, graphics, textures, and.
• Prepared images and raw scans to reproduce well in print including tonal & color correction, sharpening, noise and artifact removal, photo retouching, compositing, and any other required image manipulation.
• Recreated logos and other graphics to replace poor-quality art.
• Designed and created backgrounds and other graphic elements used in designs.
• Created graphics for the Welcome Wagon website.

Rockville Centre, New York

• Yellowbook provided an opportunity to use my yellow page directory experience to gain access to the commonly used graphic design software that I needed to learn in order to advance my career beyond Yellow Page.
• Responsible for creating ads for a national yellow page directory company.

Syosset, New York

• Volt was the publisher of the NYNEX Yellow Page and Thomas Regional/Register Business Directories. Volt had utilized the more than thirty years it maintained the NYNEX directory contract to develop an impressively.
• Responsible for the creation of art and ads for NYNEX and Thomas Regional/Register Business Directories while adhering to Spec Book and printing requirements.

Amityville, New York

• I combined my training as a fine artist and draftsperson with my library card to learn how to successfully complete a wide range of assignments and build a satisfied and loyal client base of small businesses.
• Fulfilled a wide variety of assignments including logo design, identity packages, menus and restaurant table cards, brochures, book illustrations, and POP displays.

Babylon, New York

• Greenman-Pedersen is a consulting engineering firm that specializes in the innovative development, design and construction of infrastructure and building systems.
• Responsible for drafting plans for a full range of consulting and civil engineering projects from complex bridge plans for the BQE/Gowanus merge to landscaping plan renderings for parks and townhouse developments.
• Produced presentation materials for marketing department and town meetings.

Melville, New York

• Transcontrol manufactured vital relays and signal systems for the railroad and transit industry.
• Responsible for drafting plans for mechanical parts used in railway signaling equipment and circuitry used in railway houses and control centers.

Regents Diploma, Art/Art Studies, General

Activities and Societies: Recipient of Outstanding Achievement in English and Outstanding Achievement in Art Awards

Engineering Graphics