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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.