Julie Vantrease Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Production Designer on the Amplify Humanities team working across teams on print and digital products – designing layouts for student edition activity books, teacher materials, and ancillary components. My role and.
• Working with fellow production designers and managers to ensure book files being sent out for print are free of errors and use appropriate style sheets.
• Creation of style sheets and guides to be used by outside vendors.
• Assisting in creating a digital image asset library of art and photographs to be accessible between teams and projects within the Humanities team.
• Working with the Amplify ELA Instagram team to produce visual designs and illustrations that celebrate student literacy and teachers using the Amplify curriculum product.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

• Visual Designer on the Amplify Humanities team working on a Social Studies K-5 print product – designing layouts for student edition textbooks, activity books, and teacher materials. My role and contributions to the.
• Creating charts, maps and vector-based illustrations to be used in student textbooks, activity books and teacher guides using Adobe Creative Suite (primarily InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop).
• Placing artwork, photographs, and curriculum text in inDesign layouts while adhering to the product's visual language and guidelines.
• Assisting in creating a project archive and master artwork database for the design materials to be accessible between teams and projects within the Humanities team.
• Working with the Amplify ELA Instagram team to produce visual designs and illustrations that celebrate student literacy and teachers using the Amplify curriculum product.

New York, New York, United States

Teaching Artist at Arts Ignite, formerly Artists Striving to End Poverty, building arts-based programming, workshops, digital and print learning materials (worksheets, coloring books, games) to be distributed at partner organizations across NYC. This role also consisted of being a guest teaching artist leading workshops at Women in Need (the largest.

New York, United States

Co-Founder and Lead Designer of Asked by Kids, where I contributed to creating free, bilingual, open source educational children’s resources to make information more digestible & accessible for kids. As an illustrator and designer on the Asked by Kids team, my role involved illustrating and designing visual assets using programs such as Procreate.

New York, New York

Administrative assistant at The New School's University Learning center (ULC) providing a wide array of student support. My role consisted of data entry, calendar management, and various graphic design projects to expand the student reach and accessibility of the ULC.

New York, New York

Graphics intern at LITTLEPIECES NYC where my work included creating motion graphics, editorial design, and illustrations for promotional purposes on social media platforms like Instagram. All the while performing administrative tasks across different teams to provide support in data entry, specifically using Excel.