Design Management

TONY GAMINO

intelligent. design.

**-** ******* ****, ***. 1, Astoria, NY 11105

646-***-**** www.tonygamino.com ****.******@*****.***

An art director with 13 years of graphic design work experience, specializing in the conception,

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS direction, and execution of engaging visual content, design solutions, and creative management.

EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

» Software: Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, The New York Enterprise Report (NYER), NYC Ziff Davis, NYC

Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Art Director, 12/2009 – present Senior Designer, 05/2006 – 09/2006

The New York Enterprise Report (NYER) is a » I worked in the Custom Solutions department

Fireworks), K4 publishing system,

magazine and informational resource for small

Quark XPress, Microsoft Office (Word, of the Enterprise Group. Responsibilities

businesses located in the greater New York City area.

PowerPoint, Excel), Wordpress, Apple iLife, included creating white papers and designing

» Conception and design of covers, features, the corporate magazines for IBM (StateTech &

Final Cut Pro

» Languages: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript EdTech) and CDW (BizTech)

and departments

» Coordinate the development of creative

Market Watch, NYC

strategies for the promotion of services,

EDUCATION products, and events Art Director, 05/2005 – 05/2006

Market Watch is published 8 times a year by M.

» Conceive advertising and marketing themes/

Shanken Communications, publisher of Wine

» The New School, concepts and design of all promotional materials

Spectator, and covers the beer, wine and liquor

MS, Media Management, including proposals, brochures, direct mail,

trade industries.

New York, NY (3.86 GPA) postcards, newsletters, flyers, and invitations

» Create custom illustrations, infographics, and » Design of the covers, front-of-book,

» City College Of New York, other graphic elements and features

» Manage a tight art budget » Photographic production (from

BA, Literature, Communications & the Arts,

» Styled and directed photo shoots with celebrities

New York, NY (4.0 GPA) creative conception and the selection of

and business leaders such as Rebecca Minkoff, photographers, props, and locations, to the art

» Georgia State University, Bethanny Frankel, and Daymond John direction of all photography)

» Readership of the magazine has doubled from » By introducing new talent like photographer

BFA, Graphic Design,

Atlanta, Georgia (3.4 GPA) 50,000 to over 100,000 under my leadership Casey Kelbaugh (of Slideluck Potshow

» I recently oversaw a complete redesign fame), I took a staid trade publication and

of the title turned it into a dynamic product with

HONORS

AWARDS tremendous newsstand appeal

Pharmaceutical Executive, NYC

» Winner: 2009 Jesse H. Neal Award for Wine Spectator, NYC

Art Director, 09/2006 – 10/2009

Pharmaceutical Executive is a Neal Award-

best single article, Pharmaceutical Executive, Assistant Art Director, 06/2001 – 07/2005

With 2.8 million readers, Wine Spectator is one of

winning monthly magazine published by

“Fight Resistance.

Advanstar Communications, with a readership the world’s leading luxury lifestyle titles.

of over 36,000 leaders of the pharma industry.

» Selected to edit the 2013 edition of » Design of departments and features

» Oversaw an art department of two other » Propping and directing of photography (both

Immediacy, the online journal of

The New School’s MA in Media Studies designers and design interns still life and portrait). Worked with industry-

» Brainstormed and implemented creative leading photographers such as Ellen Silverman,

solutions to make the pharmaceutical David Prince, Alexandra Grablewski, Shimon

ASSOCIATIONS industry visually exciting. An example was the and Tammar, and Bill Milne

» Commissioned and negotiated illustrations by

magazine’s first ever 3-D illustrated cover

» AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Artists) » Managed the production process including award-winning artists such as Michael Witte,

» SPD (Society of Publication Designers) image, file, and font management, color Brian Ajhar, and Douglas Jones

» New York Cares (Art Explorers and various) » Supervised a Graphic Designer and design

correction, and proof review

» Extensive creation of charts and infographics interns

» Assumed the role of Assistant Production

and the assigning of photography and

PUBLICATIONS illustration Manager which included color correction, file

» Winner, American Business Media Neal management, and editorial work flow

» “Paper or Plastic: Publishing in the Age of the » Promoted after only one year from Graphic

Award for Best Single Article, June 2009

eBook.” Immediacy 2013 Designer, where I oversaw the Classified

section as well as a number of departments,

including the UpFront news section

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