Creative Director
International Editorial, Advertising and Publishing Expertise
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Award-winning Creative Director with extensive international experience. Specialize in high-end editorial and advertising across platforms with a pursuit of excellence and proven results. Strong foundation in the arts and lived and worked in Paris, Madrid, Milan and New York.
Skills Summary Excellent typographic, design and story telling skills in print and digital platforms. Extensive photographic production expertise and have worked with celebrated photographers and illustrators. Have overseen publications of over 4.5 million readership and managed creative teams. Adobe Creative Suite, web design and development best practices and video editing skills. Print 4/color pre-press production management expertise. Outstanding overall brand stewardship skills and redesign specialist, from strategy to completion under tight deadlines. Possess language skills in French, Spanish and Italian in addition to English.
EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Consulting Senior Art Director
2006-Present, 2000-1998
Senior Features Art Direction and management responsibilities with celebrated editors, photographers, illustrators and writers. National and International Special Sections, Daily & Weekend Arts, Science, Metropolitan Section, Book Review, Sunday and Daily Business, Food, Real Estate, Sports, Thursday & Sunday Styles.
PLENTY MAGAZINE
Creative Director
2004-2006
Created new category environmental lifestyle magazine from prototype to circulation of over 100,000. Oversaw all aspects of design, photography, web development and production as well as conceptualizing stories for a new vision of environmentalism, adding a large dose of sex appeal and humor.
THE FLYING MURPHYS
www.theflyingmurphys.com
Partner/Creative Director
2000-Present
Studio providing web and print creative services to diverse international publishing and high-end lifestyle clients. Web design & development, e-commerce with excellent customer response and high-volume traffic with large increase in sales. Redesign and modernization of magazines with extensive photographic production on fashion, beauty and lifestyle shoots. Highlights in Europe are below.
ANGELINE’S
[Paris, France]
Avant-garde high-end fashion magazine based in Paris catering to the fashion and beauty market in Europe. Oversaw design and photography production and contributed conceptually to content, establishing an irreverent but elegant view of current fashion trends. Created first unisex magazine with two covers with themed issues. Gained trend-setting status in Paris fashion world with big impact.
EDICIONES CONDÉ NAST
Art Director, Special Projects
[Madrid, Spain]
Developed new magazines, advertising, and promotion departments in native Spanish language. Oversaw and created GQ (initially Vogue Hombre), Vogue Novias (Brides) and advertising departments for Vogue, Casa Vogue and all Condé Nast Spain. Created special editorial supplemental magazines and produced extensive advertising and promotional award-winning campaigns among which were:
• Coca-Cola • Lancia • Opel • Renault • Mercedes Benz • Revlon • Dior • Esteé Lauder • Major liquor brands
Original creative conceptual development from concept, mockup and pitch to advertising client to final execution and production to print.
EDUCATION, AFFILIATIONS AND AWARDS
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa — BFA
Mac Learning Center Certification in Web Graphics Essentials
Art Students League Lifetime Member
International Fragrance Foundation Jasmine Prize, First prize, Image. Jasmine Prize
Silver Addy Award, 36-page fall fashion catalogue, Godchaux’s, New Orleans
Des Moines Art Center Merit scholarship from the age of 8, college-level art history courses in affiliation with Drake University from the age of 12-14, assistant curator and teaching assistant, age 14-17.
ARTWORK AND EXHIBITIONS
Online artistic bio and portfolio at www.ccole.com. Works are in various private and public collections.