Tom Cantey Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles

Baker Brand Communications, Jadi Communications, The Designory, theLabLA

Santa Monica, CA

• Sole staff production artist with varied responsibilities:
• Created precise, printer-ready mechanical files for multiple annuals over a short time frame each year.
• Refined new logos, and then adapted for multiple file formats and color spaces.
• Produced interactive digital magazines, reports, and brand books.
• Tackled large format mechanicals for environmental graphics and trade shows.
• Created aesthetically pleasing presentations in PowerPoint and Keynote.

Greater Los Angeles

Worked on signage, wall wraps, flyers, and more, for companies such as Herbalife, Sargent & Berman, Schawk, Creative Direct Marketing Group, and Baker Brand Communications. Adapted quickly to their systems and practices. Asked intelligent questions. Gave them my best on a daily basis.

Santa Monica, CA

• Lead production artist with responsibility for national print ads and outdoor for Honda and Farmers Insurance, among others, for over a decade. Prior to that, lead production artist with responsibility for the full.
• Collaborated closely with numerous art directors (and ACDs and CDs), helping them to realize their visions. Provided them with a high standard of typographical refinement. Adapted their layouts to multiple sizes and.
• Consistently and routinely produced technically accurate and precise mechanicals to the specifications provided by print production.
• Followed up with print production and project management to resolve any questions regarding specs, copy and art.
• Juggled numerous projects simultaneously, prioritizing by deadline and job complexity, creating high quality work surprisingly fast.
• Researched and provided tips and technical insights to fellow production artists on a casual and ongoing basis.

Los Angeles, CA

• At various times, but for extended periods each:
• Managed shifts of ten employees or more: typesetters, mark-up, proofreaders, cameramen, drivers and other support personnel; all of us working together to complete large volumes of work of high quality on very tight.
• Typeset (with fellow studio artists) full lines of Honda and Toyota brochures.
• Prepared job specifications for typesetters. Identified typefaces.
• Proofread for typography (size, lead, font, kerning, rag, etc.), and for copy (typos, grammar, etc.).