Design Consultant
CurrentCreate graphic communication products, establish workflow policies and graphic standards to maintain effectiveness and preserve consistency across all brand components. Create and support digital asset libraries. Perform quality control functions, including proofreading, prepress markup, and authorizing press proofs and press runs. Oversee the maintenance of website and social media sites using third-party content management systems. Top Client, Autumn Publishing, VA:• Created user interface and content structure for print and online publications (magazines, tabloids, and newsletters, etc.), serving client needs. • Developed attractive, accurate, easy-to-understand original presentations and informational graphics by integrating fitting illustrations, high-quality typography, and photography, which best interpret and simplify data and original ideas for the intended audience effectively.• Designed an efficient operational workflow, yielding an average savings of $50k-$75k per year, resulting in an art and illustration budget conservation of $500-$2,500 per feature/cover illustration. • Increased monthly subscriptions by 100%. • Collaborated with various internal and external contributors and across organizational lines from concept to camera-ready or publication-ready final art. Produced solutions for other organizations: Women at Real Risks (WARR), Research Association of Minority Professors (RAMP), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Association of Black Accountants, National Medical Association (NMA), National Black Child Development Institute, Inc., March of Dimes, Executive Leadership Foundation, Black Entertainment, and Sports Lawyers Association, Inc.(BESLA).