Download Courtney Fathers | Designer Extraordinaire

COURTNEY FATHERS | DESIGNER EXTRAORDINAIRE
PRODUCTION EXCELLENCE…
Art Director – BNP Media [02.2003 – Present]
Manage design of two monthly trade publications including feature articles, columns and departments. Coordinate with production manager
to maintain customer ads and with editors to maintain article design quality. Hiring photographers and illustrators for special projects.
Additional design of customer ads, media kits, custom illustrations, enewsletters, logos and in-house marketing materials. Some
photography experience on location for local-based features.
Design & Marketing Assistant – Eastern Michigan University Men’s Hockey Club [09.2011 – Present]
Volunteer position designing game flyers, posters, media guide and other promotional materials for team. Help coordinate photographers
at home games and update image galleries on team Facebook page. Assist team interns with additional projects as needed.
Freelance Design – Corkboards [07.1996 – Present]
Originally developed to screen print shirts and concert posters, projects now include logos, posters, ads, custom illustrations, brochures,
CD packaging and event invitations. Clients include Naxos World Music, Yoshitoshi Records, Live Nation, Ritual Productions, Eclipse
Printing, E.C. Campbell Photography, Detroit Hardwear, U.S. Department of Defense and MACRHL Hockey.
Graphic Designer – Magellan Publishing [04.1998 – 10.2002]
Designed monthly publications and supplements in medical administrative field, energy resources and the metalworking industry.
Additional work on ads, brochures and flyers for metalworking clients.
Graphic Designer and Screen Printer – Eclipse Print (formerly TLC - The Lesley Company) [1991 – 1997]
Summer employment and seasonal as needed. Duties included screen printing shirts and other textiles, as well as coating, exposing and
reclaiming screens. Also developed art for customers, maintained inventory and organized office files. Additional freelance work through
Live Nation.
Volunteer Teaching Assistant – Indiana University [Spring 1997]
Assisted professor in 300-400 level silk screening class at Indiana University following graduation.
EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS…
• Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Studio Art with emphasis in graphic design and screen printing. Minor in Art
History, focusing on ancient Greek Art and African Art (1992-1996).
• Course studies towards degree in Art History. Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan (1994).
CREATIVE SKILLS…
Hands-on design:
Daily use of Adobe CS5 (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Distiller), Microsoft Word and Excel. Pre-press work including scanning,
color correcting, preflighting, font management and FTP uploading, all on Mac OSX platform. Basic knowledge of Dreamweaver creating
HTML promos. Past experience working in QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Freehand, Fontographer and hand-cutting rubylith film.
On the press:
Experience with six-color and four-color manual presses for textile printing. Coating, exposing and reclaiming silk screens. Registration of
multi-color jobs. Ordering and restocking shop inventory.
INCREDIBLE FEATS…
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Most recent personal challenge, daily spontaneous “crayon tweets” composed scrapbook-style digitally.
Member of USA Hockey as a player, participating in local leagues regularly since 1999.
Self promotional hockey blog featuring game recaps from my co-ed hockey team, Cubs AC.
Self taught origami enthusiast (Japanese paper folding).
Graffiti based research paper “Krylon & the Art of the New Skool,” presented at Icons of American Art Seminar, Loyola University, New
Orleans (Spring 1997).
• First runner up in Metro Times movie-themed “Cool World” design contest (Spring 1992).
• Co-host of annual office bake sale (BNP Media) benefitting Gleaners Community Food Bank.
• Summer 2011 kitchen volunteer at Forgotten Harvest, repackaging donated prepared food from local vendors.
AMAZING SURPRISES…
www.corkboards.com
www.twitter.com/corkboards
www.gigposters.com/designer/80776_Courtney_Fathers.html
FAN MAIL…
Email: [email protected]