Teresanne Russell Email & Phone Number

Working together with the User Interface and Design teams, creating beautiful illustrations that meet StartGuides style guidelines for their innovative Apps.

Always looking for the best visual representation for a client's project.• I provide a full service studio, creating custom illustrations, spot art, logo imagery, information graphics, pie charts, graphs, illustrated maps, baseline maps and vector clean-up.• I am responsible for all illustration and graphic requests.• My clients include: Advertising Agencies, Lifestyle and Trade Magazines, Institutions, Multimedia Companies and Independent Designers.• Excerpt of my client list: Zondervan Christian Publishing, HarperCollins Publishing, Hudson & Associates, Studio 630, Miles Media Partnership, Florida Trend Magazine, Moffitt Cancer Center...to name a few wonderful collaborators!

I enjoyed the collaborative process of working with a professional group of editors, designers and writers. The spark of a deadline was always in the air, which created a stimulating environment for an artist.• Responsible for working with a creative team of designers, photographers, writers and editors.• Created custom illustrations, icons, spot art, information graphics and maps.• Designed the weekly kid page and Newspapers in Education spots.• Responsible for going to the daily newsroom meetings, discussed the graphics and illustrations planned for the next day’s news coverage.• Worked with the A Desk and political editors for specialized information graphics.• Attended news conferences and conducted interviews for graphic research.• Created artwork and wrote content, for self-generated information graphics.• Worked on strict deadlines.

Recently I went to my college reunion. I was fortunate enough to run into former students. The thanks they gave to me for being working vector artists, showed me I made a difference in their creative lives.• Led and facilitated a computer Macintosh illustration course.• Developed assignments and implemented grading policy.

I was hired for this position before graduating from college. As the only illustrator in a small graphic department, my job was to look like a staff of ten. It was a great experience to have such a variety of topics and styles to explore.• Responsible for creating all in-house illustrations for varied sections of the newspaper. • Provided a variety of illustration styles, to give the perception of a number of staff illustrators.• Worked with graphic artists to build knowledge of information graphics, charts and map making.• Coordinated closely with editors and layout artists, from concept to design on illustrated projects.• Worked on strict deadlines.

• Gained knowledge of the graphic/print world.• Assisted on photo shoots, worked on layouts and provided basic Macintosh training to staff.

Bfa; Co-Award For Top Illustartor Graduating Class, Illustration

Graduated top of the class, Illlustration BFA

Senior Awards: U.S. Government & Art; Nhs; Top 10 In Graduating Class

Activities and Societies: Secretary of the National Honor Society, Varsity Softball, Varsity CheerleaderGraduated in the top 10 of my.