Michael Antor Email & Phone Number

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

West Michigan

Graphic design, vectorizing, illustrations for various companies such as DD Designs, Black Metal Apparel, Car Car Creek Hops and many others.

• Work cross-functionality with Marketing and IT to develop, maintain, publish and distribute over 50 corporate product specification guides with a bi-monthly release schedule. Use charts to help identify topflow.
• Assign projects to flex-resources and overseas team members with project management tools.
• Using best practices to actively seek to identify, design, validate and document new technology, techniques and processes to improve the effectiveness and productivity of the Product Data Team.
• Analyze, design develop, test and implement production data applications.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Create and oversee art and design of screen printed & embroidered apparel for many national entertainment & resort markets, as well as direct advertising and sales materials that creatively and consistently reflect our clients brand identity. Assist in web design and improvements, updates and website overall functionality.

Walker, MI

• Design and produce accurate ad layouts ensuring the best possible photos and illustrations for camera-ready art
• Create detailed illustrations and custom logos, both manually and electronically, utilizing skills in computer graphics, hand lettering, line drawing, production art, advertising design and internet photo retrieval
• Efficiently scan, retouch, color-correct, enhance and creatively manipulate digital or print photography
• Accurately document and pro-actively solve problems that arise from low-resolution originals and incorrect processing
• Provide professional customer service and meet strict deadlines

Manipulated documents to have them ready for press. This includes setting up a preps layout, making sure there is bleed, proofing, checking spot colors, line screen and resolution of images. Some of the other duties include color balancing, image retouching, data management, and IT management / troubleshooting. Trapping is done through a prinergy work flow.

Created and made alterations to advertisements. Duties also included compiling and sorting out ads, delegating which employees would be working on them. Talking with the printer and coordinating which pages were to be sent over and in what order.

Created and designed ads for the U.S. West Dex yellow pagesPerformed paste-up, proofing, printer queries, and met strict printer deadlines

Bachelors, Illustration

Illustration

Associates, Visual Communications

Visual Communications