Wm. Kevin Ridgeway Email & Phone Number

United States

1017 Olive Street St. Louis MO 63101

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Greater St. Louis Area

Retouch and manage apparel assets for online catalog, email marketing and social media distribution. Collaborate, discuss status and receive information across marketing, merchandising and ecommerce departments. Improve, organize and manage a server based logical file structure for digital assets. Introduce industry standard colorimetric measurement.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Work ExperienceSenior Digital Artist4 Alarm Studio/ Boxing Clever, Full-TimeMarch 2004 - March 2018For 14 years creative retouching and advertisement imaging has reinforced our client products. Spirits brands account.
• Retouch and Image key visuals for POS programs, Advertising, Web, and Publication.
• Produce pre-press ready production art for POS, packaging, label art and catalogs.
• Manage photoshoot imagery with Lightroom and Capture One.
• Produce digital assets for database and distribution.
• Produce 3D renders of products before their fabrication to visualize, modify and gain sign-off. Excel delivery time and maximize budget buy avoiding photoshoot and providing image assets ahead of product.

Greater St. Louis Area

Technical color knowledge, pre-press expertise, and retouching rooted in the lithography trade propelled success at Zipatoni. Focused shifted to full time image creation and retouching, quickly becoming the imager of choice among art directors and creative directors. Demand for my work increased and digital skills excelled there. Achievements: Lead.

Greater St. Louis Area

Garlich Printing utilized the same Full Press, Unix based software and workflow I had implemented at Central Apex, a downtown trade shop where I worked for 14 years. Garlich was a perfect fit for me to continue to develop skills and apply my skill set. Flightcheck, and prepare customer files for for print.Rip, trap, paginate and output to film and.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Artist /Camera /Scanner /Dot Etch /Systems Operator Central Apex, Full-Time Fall 1985 - APRIL 1997 Prepared camera ready art for Olin /Remington packaging, Brown Shoe shoe art, and Louisiana Plastics cup, to name a.
• Pioneered graphic art techniques for multi-color plastic cup printing methods at their origin, changing what was possible to achieve on press for clients ranging from Disney to the U.S. Armed Forces.
• Used airbrush and masking techniques to produce a competitive alternative to what was being produced on the Scitex and Mac platforms. Soft blend transitions and feathered borders were among the methods I introduced to.
• Successfully established and operated the prepress department, and defined the equipment, database and strategy to transition us from a conventional to digital (although analog) computer based workflow.

Associate'S Degree, Commercial Art Advertising Design

Certifications In Scanner / Camera / Image Assembly