Sue Spade, Resume

Sue Spade, Resume

SKETCH

Adept, award winning print media graphic designer and illustrator with a successful record of oft published, high quality

artwork. Trained, experienced and fluent with digital and traditional media. Superior customer service and communication

skills. Enjoy engaging with clients one on one in order to meet their goals. Able to take on projects with a broad range of

subject matter and complexity with success, making presentations that stand out and shine.

EXPERIENCE

Creative Services Specialist, Knit Rite, Inc., Kansas City, KS 2003–2010

Partnered at Knit Rite, Inc., an Orthotic and Prosthetic textile manufacturing and distributing company, to design, illustrate,

copy edit, photo style/retouch and produce marketing collateral.

Chief ongoing project: the design and production of 3 sequential editions of an over 600 page, color, indexed industry

supply product catalog.

Designed, illustrated and produced marketing materials including trade ads, posters, direct mail brochures, sell sheet

flyers, postcards, booklets and rendered medical grade garment illustrations. Generated electronic literature updates for

salesforce.

Attended press checks, efficiently coordinated with vendors and interacted with database in updating catalog Excel

spreadsheets.

Art Director and Book Designer, Sue Spade Design/Illustration, Kansas City, KS 2001–2003

Freelance design and illustration logged for a substantial and diverse range of companies.

For Prime Health, an HMO: produced self illustrated annual report and new parents booklets. Provided multiple

commissioned marketing collateral including logo designs for: North Kansas City Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas

City, Providence St. Margaret Health Center and The Kansas City Star Advertising.

Stand out freelance commitment to Kansas City Star Books for the highly praised art direction, design and illustration of

four 100 page, 4 color historically significant quilting books: Prairie Flower: A Year On The Plains, (2001), O’Glory, (2002),

Celebration of American Life, (2002) and Women Of Grace & Charm, (2003).

Graphic Artist/Illustrator, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO 1988–2001

Worked with media professionals daily, from refining copy with editors to hiring freelance artwork.

Designed FYI and Sunday feature section cover story packages, graphics, and published illustrations, augmenting the

newspaper’s ability to deliver compelling information to its many daily readers.

Contributed to preliminary strategic creative planning meetings. Operated as photo director at location and studio shoots.

Met daily press deadlines.

STRENGTHS and TALENTS

Illustration in vector and raster based graphics software, and traditional mediums. Art direction of publication design with

close attention to detail and organization. Copy editing skills. Substantial experience working with up to date print production

standards and color profiling. Effective liaison between clients and production vendors earning an outstanding reputation for

negotiation, problem solving, and customer satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mac/PC platforms: Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Acrobat. Quark XPress.

Macromedia FreeHand. Microsoft Office Word and Excel. Spot photography.

AWARDS

Silver award winner in The Society of Newspaper Design’s “Best of Newspaper Design” Competition Winner in Print

Magazine’s Regional Design Annual

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Arts, minor in Graphic Design, Wichita State University Cum Laude. Web Designer and

Internet Marketing Certificates, Johnson County Community College, 2011

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