DESIGNER at MIZZOU PUBLISHING

JUNE 2011 — PRESENT

Columbia, Missouri

• Acted as marketing manager and organized advertisement design concepts and strategies.

• Conceptualized and designed book covers and logos with clients, produced print and web ads for our events.

• Formatted and published customer books using the Espresso Book Machine, an on-demand print machine that prints, collates, covers and binds a book in minutes. 

 

DESIGNER / REPORTER at VOX MAGAZINE

JANUARY 2014 — PRESENT

Columbia, Missouri

• Designed covers, department pages and features for print and iPad for this weekly city magazine.

• Won the design contest to create 14-page True/False documentary Film Fest theme issue.

• Reported on the arts and literary community and conducted both print and multimedia interviews in summer 2012.

 

PAGE DESIGNER at COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN

AUGUST 2013 — DECEMBER 2013

Columbia, Missouri

• Designed features, news and sports fronts for this 6,000 circulation daily newspaper.

• Collaborated with editors, infographic artists and the photo department to put pages together by deadline.

 

ART DIRECTOR at VOX MAGAZINE

MAY 2013 — AUGUST 2013

Columbia, Missouri

• Executed the overall design of this weekly city magazine including department pages, features and covers.

• Planned photo shoots, made photo selections and created editorial illustrations.

• Preflighted pages for production and communicated with the advertising department and publishing house.

 

ILLUSTRATION INTERN at PS BEAUTY

JANUARY 2013 — APRIL 2013

London, United Kingdom

• Single-handedly created 10+ illustrations per week for this beauty tech start-up, as well as blog graphics. 

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FREELANCE

 

SPORTS JOURNALISM INSTITUTE

• Redesigned and assembled SJI's 11-page annual newspaper for the past two years.

 

ART DIRECTOR of VANGUARD

• Designed the 27-page magazine of the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri.