Lisa Vibronek Email & Phone Number

New York

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• Freelance Art Director. Clients included: American Lawyer Media and SourceMedia.

Nyc

Art Director, Supplements, National Magazine Group.• Served as one-person art department for legal trade magazine publisher. Titles included: The Asian Lawyer, Intellectual Property, Focus Europe and the annual Litigation Supplement to The American Lawyer.• Managed all aspects of all magazines: conceptualize the visual approach and execute the layout, design and production of all pages.• Commissioned all illustration work and coordinated photo shoots globally.• Consistently met all deadlines on time and on or under budget.

Nyc

• Freelance Art Director. Clients included: The American Lawyer Magazine, Cocktail, Corporate Counsel, First for Women, Focus Europe, Quick & Simple and Star Magazine.

• Managed all day-to-day Art Department operations for a monthly, national womens service publication, since it’s launch in August 2004. • Assumed all responsibility for keeping the department running/staffed, including use of freelancers, to ensure all deadlines were met.• Streamlined overall design through strategic use of color, simplified design treatments and creation of recurring franchises.• Assisted Creative Director in conceptualizing visual approach to pages. • Ran daily color shows with imaging representative. Approved color at both scatter and composed page stages.• Layout, design and production of all types of pages: FOB, Features (including multiple-spread special sections), BOB and the cover of the magazine.• Approved all layouts within Art Department. Attended daily layout shows with Editor.

Originally hired at Bauer as Associate Art Director of a launch. After a few months the project was shelved. I was told that they wanted to keep me within the organization and offered me a position at any of the titles in their stable. I chose First, and over time climbed to the position of Art Director.• Managed all Art Department operations for national womens service publication (avg. single copy sales per issue over 1.2 million).• Re-directed the “look” of the magazine while maintaining core reader base. • During my time at First, it increased in single copy sales by seven percent while all other women’s service titles were in decline.• Conceptualized visual approach to all pages within interior.• Layout, design and production of front cover (as a single copy sales driven piece), as well as any and all interior pages.