I have 30 years of experience in publishing and web design. Here is a quick breakdown:🟠 10 plus years of ideation and maintenance of a publishing brand with multiple media channels (print, digital, web, newsletters, and video) including marketing assets and media kits🟡 Experience in team management (art and edit) with effective communication skills🟠 Consistent design and art direction adhering to the visual language of the brand🟡 17 years of magazine layout design from features to departments including: pagination, subscription inserts, reader polling, contest promotions, ad material analysis, and newsstand data research🟠 Deadline and budget oriented from project planning to printer upload🟡 Strong diplomacy skills in accepting feedback and fielding requests from stakeholders🟠 Excellent at collaborating with editorial (print and digital), product development, video, sales, and advertising teams to ensure brand fidelityIn my latest position as art director for an award-winning regional travel and lifestyle magazine publisher, I re-branded the flagship title (Maui No Ka ‘Oi magazine) and created two new titles (Island Living and Eating & Drinking magazines). I was heavily involved with content planning. When the sales department needed support, I created media kits, sales pitch decks and promotional hand-outs. I also helped the publisher launch a bi-monthly magazine devoted to the Ka‘anapali Resort area that was more advertiser-driven in content. Maui No Ka Oi magazine has national reach though subscribers and newsstand sales and local reach via newsstand and in-room placement.In addition to all the responsibilities as an art director, I worked with a team to mount an annual restaurant awards event that explored a different theme each year. I re-branded the original out-dated awards logo but kept it’s core identity to coexist with older iterations. Each awards ceremony required its own unique visual language that was extended to all aspects from signage to invitation to slideshow presentation.I have a keen eye for detail. I am patient, friendly, easy-going and sensitive to my teams needs as well as those of the project. I enjoy working with writers, illustrators, and photographers to enhance storytelling. The digital world affords many avenues to enhance content especially through animation and video, equally important in engaging readers and extending to the tenets of the brand.