Martha Smith Email & Phone Number

Rosemont, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Il

As PCMA's creative director, I was responsible for cultivating how a global audience saw our organization and visually communicating our values and vision. I managed and art directed event photographers and videographers to help tell our brand story around the world. With my team, I developed Brand Guidelines that were incorporated in all things PCMA. Whether I was working on a website wireframe, social media advertising and magazine ads, convention booth design, or senior leadership presentations, I made sure that PCMA's message of transformation left an indelible impression on the business events industry. Some of my most memorable projects included branding for the European Influencers Summit (#PCMAEIS) and our Asia Pacific Annual Conference (#PCMAAC), EduCon (#PCMAEC) and all the in-house work for PCMA Convening Leaders (#PCMACL).

Chicago

Projects included print advertisements, logos, brochures, direct mailings, business cards, fitness center signage and wall-size art, children's book layout, two Pez price guides, Philadelphia and Palm Springs film festival program guides, and Web banners for personal blogs. Editing projects included the copy for my design work, book introductions/author bios, a young adult novel, and a school's alumnae magazine.

Chicago, Il

I worked as a copy editor/designer for the Tribune's features sections and module creation. I've handled arts & entertainment, business, health, food, family and home content areas, and was most recently the designer for the Homes section. Previously, I helped lead a team in Chicago that produced pages for other newspapers in Tribune Co., coordinating with editors in those newsrooms to design and edit their local content. I also served as the Tribune's lead Business section designer. Before being hired at the Tribune, I was a part-time designer for RedEye.

Washington, D.C.

I supervised the layout of daily pages and served as the principal designer of our weekly arts and culture section. I managed a staff of five and coordinated with photo, the art and graphics department, copy editors, writers and assignment editors to create centerpieces and offlede presentations. I also worked with ad makeup to make space requests and set ad configurations. In April 2007, with the art department’s Dennis Brack, I began prototyping for a merger of our Sunday features and arts sections. After collaborating with Style’s leadership, presenting the design to the Post’s top editors, fine-tuning and focus-grouping, Style&Arts launched in August 2007. For this section, I designed the cover, inside pages and a weekly doubletruck, and contributed ideas for display type.

Washington, D.C.

I designed daily Style covers and worked with writers, editors, photo and the art and graphics department to plan section fronts, regular columns and jump pages. Was chosen as the sole designer for Sunday Arts.

Washington, D.C.

Edited stories and wrote display type in Style and for our A1 pieces.

College Park, Md

As an adjunct professor in visual journalism for three semesters, I taught juniors and seniors the basics of communicating the news, covering photography, illustration, graphics and typography, and helped them build speed and skill in QuarkXPress and Photoshop. Created course materials with real-world examples.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl

As a layout editor, I designed the Air & Sea Show special section, daily state, nation and world pages, and Palm Beach and Broward Local editions, with heavy zoning. I copy edited, wrote all headlines, designed and created illustrations for the Sunday opinion section. As a copy editor, I wrote display type and edited for Local and A sections.

Washington, D.C.

Summer intern on the National copy desk.

Bachelor Of Arts, Print Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Gamecock newspaper, Garnet & Black magazine, Odyssey of the Mind college-level team, Women Students.

Education record