James Lynch Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Create and revise graphic design layouts for direct to customer marketing, and preflight layouts for print production. Ensure that book covers meet print production specifications, make recommendations to book cover production artists when necessary to help achieve optimal results on press. Manage the print production of marketing campaigns from brief to.

Toronto, Canada Area

Supplied exceptional customer service and in-store/telephone technical support, recommended complete solutions for customers, delivered excellent customer experiences; helped to connect consumers and businesses to products that met their needs.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Created graphic design layouts for digital printing, offset print production and prepress, large format printing and online applications. Provided customer account administration/ customer service and business solutions. Coordinated production and oversee the final product.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managed production of advertising by creating, resizing and rebuilding materials for newspaper and magazine publications; advised clients on issues related to print reproduction.
• Maintained control of images, artwork and fonts, formatted in-house, agency artwork and media; consistently meeting deadlines.
• Optimized magazine/ newspaper covers and editorial photos by supplying close-cropped, colour- corrected photos and artwork for print and online applications, ensuring print reproduction was flawless which improved the.
• Performed quality control measures to ensure artwork was camera ready for print and web applications; proactively eliminating press and online issues.
• Reviewed and trouble-shot all magazine materials including advertisements, layouts and photos for camera-ready print specifications in accordance with press requirements, consistently meeting and exceeding client.
• Advised advertising agencies, in-house graphic designers and sales staff on the intricacies of print specifications which saved time and money on print reproduction of advertising materials.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created marketing tools for international markets generating brand partnerships.
• Collaborated with directors, producers and in-house artists to create brand-specific advertising and promotional materials for various television productions, promoting pre-school brands in world markets.
• Developed corporate identity by creating logos, press-kits and marketing materials, improving the overall branding of the company.
• Directed licensees on design guidelines by creating style guides, fostering brand unity.
• Utilized in-house image banks to create multiple time-sensitive projects from creative briefs to print production, effectively reducing design costs for advertising marketing materials.
• Obtained competitive quotes for print production and shipping, reducing printing costs.

Toronto, Canada Area

Supplied graphic design support to a Motion Graphics Animation Studio - Logos, bumpers, scanning and clean-up of still images, file formatting and assistant art direction on photo-shoots.

Scarborough, ON

Designed point of purchase displays, edited and set up files for screen print production. Designed layouts and marker rendering mockups.

Graphic Design And Advertising - Certificate

General Interest Study, Figure Drawing And Painting - Advanced

Fine Arts And Studio Arts

Education record

Digital Art and Photography - Toronto, ON

Photography

Photography Workshops - Instructor - Rob Skeoch of Sony of Canada. Toronto area.

Html, Css And Adobe Dreamweaver

Website and webpage design and construction using Dreamweaver 5 and 6. HTML and CSS coding.

Video Editing, Adobe Premiere

Video editing training in Adobe Premiere.

Interactive Media Design And Production

Activities and Societies: • Interactive Media Design and Production • Video Editing • Sound EditingCertificate