Mark K. Email & Phone Number

Santa Ana, CA, US

Rancho Dominguez, CA 90220

• Summary: Art Director of In-house Art & Design Department. Which includes: Manage Art & Design department; establish and stay on budget; establish and stay on schedule; coordinate and manage a team of up to 5 graphic.
• CORPORATE: Concept and design corporate Logo and brand ID. Which include Logo design for all divisions and marketing/communication materials.
• PACKAGING: Concept and design Packaging for over 10 new brand lines, with product lines of 2-15 SKU's; Expanded 6 current brand lines designing labels for an additional 2-20 SKU's.
• CATALOGS: Concept and design product catalogs. Manage production and design of over 90 catalogs per year, with page counts from 24 to 384.
• PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Set up and establish production work flows for Art and Design Department collaborating with other departments, which included routing system, scheduling, prioritizing and tracking.
• BUDGET: Establish and determine operating costs for the Art and Design department, which includes staffing, printing, design and materials for daily operations. Continuously looked for more effective and efficient.

Summary: CONCEPT, DIRECT & DESIGN: Logos; Brands; Brand style guides; Publications: New magazine, Redesign magazine, Title, Cover, Editorial Layout; Books; Directories; Catalogs; Posters; Newsletters; Advertisements; Brochures; Web; Graphics; Marketing; Promotional; Prototype; Mock-ups; Concepts; Sketching; Vector Art; Raster Art; PPT presentations; 2.

Summary: Designed corporate logo and print collateral. Designed 3 Web sites, designed logos, bars, graphics, buttons, icons and all elements on site. Redesign of 3 National Magazines, which included concept, design, title logo, editorial layout, fonts, graphics and photography. Set up template files for features, column departments and style guide to.

Creative Director for a broad range of revenue-generating design projects, including 11 national magazines from conception to launch, for print and Web. Cover designs increase newsstand sales 33% from '04-'07 & helped make Entrepreneur mag the top selling "business magazine" on the newsstand from 2005 - July 2008Defined the brand ID for 11 national.

• Summary: Create and develop course outlines, project guidelines, lectures and lecture materials and grade projects.
• GRAPHIC DESIGN 323A: Graphic design using Adobe Illustrator. Give lectures, assign and grade projects based on guidelines I set up for a class of about 40 students.
• GRAPHIC DESIGN 323B: Graphic design using Quark Xpress. Give lectures, assign and grade projects based on guidelines I set up for a class of about 40 students.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)

Bachelor Of Fine Arts Degree