Joe Durand Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Boston

Directing the marketing creative team. We produce the creative for our Sports Programs, which include the teams New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Boston Red Sox, and New York Yankees. Ensuring that the desired message and brand are conveyed to consumers through all materials such as landing pages, banners, print, web pages, social, TV, video, and.

Boston

Teach multiple graduate and undergraduate publishing courses on design and publishing."We were pushed to put in a high level of hard work and learn all skills necessary to complete the requirements to the best of our ability. In the end, I found this appropriate and refreshingly challenging for a Graduate course.”"The course was very fast-paced and.

Danvers, MA

• Provide design, and art direction services for digital and print projects in the publishing and marketing industries. Managing effective communication strategies and tactics, delivering key messages and marketing.
• Holding a client base that includes Babson College, Tufts University, Northeastern University, Martha Stewart Living, 2-Communiqué, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Institutional Investors, and Harvard.
• Developed a brand conceptual package that elevated Gate 3 Design as the preferred designvendor for Applebee’s restaurant franchise.
• Conduct user research, define user flows and perform task analyses. Create personas, customer journey maps, and Information architecture. Build wireframes, prototypes, and visual design comps.
• Started and have grown the company during an economic downturn.

Beverly, MA

• Oversaw the development, and direction, of all creative concepts from point of inception through final delivery.
• Directed a full-time and freelance creative team.
• Created content and brand initiatives, identity systems, environmental designs.
• Developed and launched design/brand for client that elevated our company from $230,000 in revenues in 2009 to 2.4 million in 2012, earning a place on Inc. 500.
• Developed company design and production workflow and job procedures.

Watertown, MA / Manhattan, NY

• Oversaw all aspects of production and manufacturing for Martha Stewart’s Whole Living/Body+Soul magazine and Dr. Weil’s Self Healing Newsletter, as well as the design for marketing and client needs.
• Oversaw budget of $5.4 million, managed a production team, handled print customer service, and helped guide transition and rebranding of Body+Soul to Whole Living after acquisition in 2002 by Martha Stewart Omnimedia.
• Received and processed all edit pages and advertisements, and performed book mapping, press checks, and final sign-off on all material readied for print.
• Set department goals and standards; prepared manufacturing forecasts; managed scheduling; negotiated printing, paper, and prepress contracts; and oversaw the redevelopment of the WholeLiving.com website.
• Reduced manufacturing page costs at Body+Soul by $200,000 through renegotiations of contracts and restructuring of workflow and by directing digital color in-house, resulting in a page cost that was one-third of other.

Greater Boston Area

• Oversaw all aspects of production and manufacturing for Martha Stewart’s Whole Living/Body+Soul magazine and Dr. Weil’s Self Healing Newsletter.
• Oversaw budget of $5.4 million, managed six-person production team, handled print customer service, and helped guide transition and rebranding of Body+Soul to Whole Living after acquisition in 2002 by Martha Stewart.
• Received and processed all edit pages and advertisements, and performed book mapping, press checks, and final sign-off on all material readied for print.
• Set department goals and standards; prepared manufacturing forecasts; managed scheduling; negotiated printing, paper, and prepress contracts; and oversaw the redevelopment of the WholeLiving.com website.
• Reduced manufacturing page costs at Body+Soul by $200,000 through renegotiations of contracts and restructuring of workflow and by directing digital color in house, resulting in a page cost that was one-third of other.

Boston, MA

• Managed production design team and provided and prepared all material for print and web.
• Design and produced direct mail, magazines, newsletters and packaging.
• Worked with account managers, and editors on design development and scheduling
• Created workflow procedures and trained department staff in the latest versions of applications. Oversaw work product, hiring, reviewing, and promoting of employees.