Design Director
Resume:
k enneth nadel
art + design
Design Consultant
Ami mAgAzines, July 2012-
Art director for two weekly magazines Ami: focusing on news, and Ami Living:
a women’s magazine incorporation Whisk, a food & diet insert. Responsibilities
include: art direction, design, art research & editing, color correction & make-ready,
PDF creation, and publishing to FTP site. Working
Knowledge
PUBLisHeRs WeeKLY (freelance), may 2011- inDesign, Photoshop,
Produce 2-5 features a week plus formatted pages for the title publication, illustrator, Quark,
design daily tabloid during trade show week. Prep art, style text, set-up and K4, Woodwing;
organize documents for production. smart Connection,
Dreamweaver, Flash
HeALTHmOniTOR (freelance), november 2010- (mAC & PC)
Design features, articles and columns for health-based print magazines produced on
Clients
12+ medical topics with multiple issues annually.
WeigHT WATCHeRs
HOLmes mAgAzine (freelance), January 2011-may 2011 Book design
Design, art research & assignment, and help to create service text points for FODOR's/RAnDOm
DiY-focused print home magazine, produced 10 times a year to support HgTV HOUse
map work done in
program of the mike Holmes brand name.
Adobe illustrator
Art Director, WOmAn’s DAY
BROnX RiVeR
Oversaw day-to-day management of art & photo departments (3-5 people) for ART CenTeR
national women’s service magazine: circulation 4+ million. Worked closely with graphic design teacher.
Creative Director, editor in Chief and 7 editorial departments to produce 17 issues Developed class
per year. Handled art direction of editorial pages (food, decorating & crafts, beauty, curriculum.
fashion, health, celebrity & real people stories, etc.), executed covers and redesigns,
HeLP is On
created visual and editorial concepts for marketing initiatives, art directed photo
THe WAY TODAY
shoots & provided on-set styling, reviewed color corrections and page proofs. Promotional design
Teamed on: DAM Library (Digital Asset management): Collaborated with
ADDeD ResULTs
development team on creation of image library for WD and company-wide use. Corporate identity and
Halloween Celebrations: Art directed and managed all aspects of newsstand-only trade catalog design
siP. Created type palette and visual concepts for features & columns, supervised for jewelry lines
and styled photo shoots, collaborated on pacing, and production follow-up.
Volunteer Work
WD Favorite Home Plans: Designed and art directed all edit pages, including cover
gLBT nATiOnAL
design, for quarterly, newsstand, home builder magazine.
HeLPLine
womansday.com: Oversaw & executed initial design/template for online presence.
Peer counseling
Art Editor, gLAmOUR Education
HUnTeR
Responsible for all aspects of art direction & design of features & monthly articles,
COLLege
and redesigned & developed new formats for columns for this high profile, national,
msW program
women’s service magazine focusing on fashion & beauty, lifestyle, health, decorating
and food (over 2.5 million circulation). BROOKLYn COLLege
B. A.
Art Director, OVATiOn
PARsOns sCHOOL
managed all aspects of art direction (including a redesign) of this monthly magazine
OF Design
devoted to classical music, which included individual program guides for affiliated
FAsHiOn insTiTUTe
stations in the 50 states. supervised photography (including research and celebrity
OF TeCHnOLOgY
shoots), freelancers, production, color correction, pagination, and budgets.
Member Groups
Associate Art Director, WORKing WOmAn mAgAzine society of Publication
Designers
Art directed, designed, assigned photography and illustrations for columns, monthly
inDesign Users group
features and supplements of this ground-breaking magazine focused on managerial
women in business. Production follow-through included maintaining styles, reviewing
page proofs and color correcting images for issue make-up.
n h. 212-***-**** n c. 917-***-**** n k ennethnadel @ aol.com n w ww.kennethnadel .com
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