Patti Nelson Email & Phone Number

North Richland Hills, TX, US

Southern Methodist University

Fort Worth, Texas

Primary responsibility was designing complete label programs for clients and their brands. This involved design and layout through to film-ready mechanical art within dielines and style guide requirements. Includes photographing vignettes for placement and size, setting and editing copy and printing color compositions or mock ups. Accomplished by direct.

Duties include to plan, organize and coordinate the daily operation of in-house Art Department, to meet IDC's needs for printed art work and instruction materials; to provide work direction to four graphic artists and one photographer; Coordinate photography locations, props and styling for product packaging and assorted marketing materials; and to perform.

Freelance staffing agency in Marketing and Creative Services field.Assignments include packaging for a Coppell toy company, packaging and illustration for a Children's furniture manufacturer and as graphic artist in the marketing department for a large publishing company in Dallas.

Work with the Creative Director and other Marketing team members to design ad and catalog layouts. Use Photoshop for scanning, retouches, creating clipping paths, and creating files to use in QuarkXpress. Maintain desktop publishing and merchandise pagination for all catalogs and other duties and functions as assigned.

Content management tasks including typesetting, formatting, desktop publishing and other duties to create print, CD-ROM, and online products. Social Committee; included organizing department events and the social committee newsletter. Other duties included customer Alert newsletter, created with PageMaker 6.5 and special projects in Illustrator and.