Robin Strelow Email & Phone Number

Boulder County, Colorado, United States

Greater Denver Area

Marketing designer for large state agency that perpetuates and protects the wildlife resources of Colorado, provides a quality state parks system and sustainable opportunities for outdoor recreation. This position functions independently as the sole Graphic Designer for the agency, designing and producing visual communication and marketing materials. This.

Longmont, CO

• Robin Strelow Design, Longmont, CO, March, 2011–presentOwner/Creative DirectorFull-service graphic design office specializing in magazine design and production, marketing collateral, annual reports, DVD packaging/menu.
• Southwest Art magazine, F&W Media, Loveland, CO
• AeroGrow, Boulder, CO
• Interweave, Loveland, CO
• Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ
• Cambium Learning Group, Longmont, CO

Boulder, CO

• Design and produce communications materials including:
• annual reports (reduced size of report each year by tweaking design of the document, saving ~$800-$1,000/year over all cost of production.)
• Spheres science magazine
• website graphic assets
• complex information graphic design and production
• email campaigns and newsletters

Loveland, CO

• Marketing DesignerDesign, development, art direction, production of targeted marketing materials for craft multi-media company. Projects include multiple product catalogs, identity, advertisements (print and web) for.
• All design and pre press/production of pieces, press checking of catalogs
• Copy writing for ads (print and web)
• Negotiating contracts with printers
• Collaborated with marketing managers, designers, sales and marketing VP on advertising campaigns for company’s product lines
• Implemented PDF approval-flow for all projects produced by marketing design, saving company $4,000 annually in printer consumables

Snowmass And Boulder, CO

• Art/creative direction of strategic and marketing/communications collateral, annual reports, research and consulting reports, presentations, and publications for environmental non profit research and consulting.
• Hired, supervised, and mentored in-house graphic designers (2)
• Coordinated all print buying and vendor cost analysis for print projects, managed annual budgets
• Performed press checks on all pieces
• Trained staff in various software
• Researched and implemented best practices for sustainable print design and production methods

Oshkosh, WI

• Experimental Aircraft Association, Oshkosh, WI, 2003–2005Art DirectorArt directed, designed, and managed production of EAA Sport Aviation magazine, a 160+ page, four color, monthly magazine for recreational aviation.
• Led branding and visual direction of publication and completed a redesign of the magazine in January, 2004
• Designed/produced 200 page annual program for EAA AirVenture, the world’s largest aircraft fly-in and airshow
• Hired and supervised associate art director
• Led creative teams in the change from QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign for production of all organization publications (5 in all)
• Implemented cost-effective monthly application of PDF workflow with magazine’s printer, saving EAA $250K in the first year

Loveland, CO

• Business Finance magazine: Led redesign/relaunch effort of magazine as well as ancillary direct mail pieces and all marketing collateral. In charge of branding and visual direction of publication, custom publishing.
• Art directed and assigned all illustration and photography
• Concepted visual ideas for covers and complex internal articles
• Performed press checks on magazine and marketing collateral
• Managed and developed all design and production budgets for projects

Greensboro, NC

• Oversaw all design for consumer magazine targeted to users of home computers. Management and supervision of two staff designers and several on-call production artists.Management responsibilities:
• Supervised associate art director, two designers, and two freelance production artists* In June of 1988 I was hired as assistant art director and was promoted to art director in May of 1989