Stephanie Lora Email & Phone Number

Lakeville, Pa

Online portfolio...http://www.stephanieloragraphics.comI am an award winning graphic designer and art director for more than thirty years, My clientlist includes Yves Saint Laurent, Puig, Shiseido, HBO, The Himalayan Institute, Scholastic, Learning Express, Aperture, Severn House, and publications such as Institutional Investor, Publishers Weekly, Yoga International, and Smart Money Custom Solutions. I also produced designs for the set of the film Blue Valentine, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.I received my BFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts, where I studied under Ed Benguiat,Tony Palladino, Richard Wilde, and Skip Sorvino.

Honesdale, Pa

• Created designs on various 4 color brochures, books, promotional pieces, posters, package design, web design and direct mail projects• Designed editorial pages on the award winning publication Yoga International• Created innovative designs for new products• Worked closely with company divisions overseas in India, Africa and Mexico• Art Directed photo shoots for editorial pages as well as product photography• Involved in concept and strategy sessions with department managers• Managed booth design for Natural Product trade shows

New York, Ny

• Assisted Art Directors in design and production of various custom financial publications for clients including: T. Rowe Price Investor, US Trust Capital Acumen, Schwab On Investing, Ameriprise Capital Insight and Legg Mason Empower.• Designed layouts for custom publications• Photo research including retouching on stock photography

New York, Ny

• Designed inside pages as well as covers for Institutional Investor magazine, the award winning monthly trade magazine on the financial industry.• Created editorial concepts for features and covers• Commissioned illustrations for cover design, features and departments• Photo editing and art directing of large scale photo shoots• Involved in concept and strategy sessions with editors• Traveled annually to London to Art Direct large scale photo shoots• Completed all aspects of production on completed pages for printer

New York, Ny

• Designed and laid out editorial pages for Publishers Weekly, the weekly trade magazine of the international book publishing industry.• Created editorial concepts for feature and department pages• Commissioned illustrators and photographers• Photo retouching• Key player in a top to bottom redesign

New York, Ny

• Coordinated the design, layout and production for a Country Accents and Victorian Accents magazines• Assisted art directors of New Body, Step-By-Step Hairstyling magazines

New York, Ny

• Designed 4 color direct mail brochures, catalogs, annual reports for top fashion clients.• Managed production of original layouts and mechanicals from start to finish. Client list includes: Reebok, Rockport, Cole of California, Ann Taylor, Christian Dior, Jaeger, Guy Laroche, Catalina, and Van Heusen.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Graphic Design

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