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Don Ruth

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(3 years 3 months) Have laptop will work wherever and wherever

Although I am looking for a full-time position, I am on the hunt for contract jobs in the areas of design, advertising, technical diagrams, catalogs, brochures, posters, newsletters, websites, direct mail, illustration and art direction. Freelance in Web Design, print design, production of printed material ranging from brochures, to magazines, to newsletters, to pamphlets and fliers, to newspapers–you name it.

Art Director, ASJ magazine

Summit Business Media

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry

(1 year 2 months) Centennial, CO

I designed, art directed and produced Agent Sales Journal, now defunct. I converted statistics into charts and graphs and creatively made statistics into compelling infographics. I illustrated, designed spreads and covers, designed and produced brochures and booklets. I uploaded the magazine to the web site, optimizing art for the web. I created house ads and web ads

Senior Art DirectorAdvantage Business Media

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry

(2 years 2 months)

I Designed and produced In-house advertising materials for magazine, including house ads, marketing materials and media kit. I Managed various projects simultaneously including, wall charts, Buyers Guide, magazines and advertorials. I Managed people for projects, some as freelancers and some as employees. I Designed articles and covers for CED, InDepth, Cablevision, Wireless Week, which included Illustrating for articles or art-directing freelance illustrators/photographers for all of the above magazines. I Produced magazines, wall charts, advertorials, buyers guides, supplements and circulation projects; and CED s on-site show daily since 1995, which is printed and distributed at the Western Show (no longer in business), the NCTA The Cable Show, SCTE Cable-Tec Expo and SCTE s Emerging Technologies Conference. I Designed and produced supplements for magazine including wall charts, advertorials, brochures, supplemental magazines and inserts for CED and its advertisers, which have requiring interaction with clients and editors. I Designed logos and identity materials for products, promotions and companies. I have expert knowledge and experience in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat and QuarkXpress and a working knowledge of the Microsoft products, particularly PowerPoint (and its Apple counterpart, Keynote) for making presentations and slideshows. I have knowledge of the printing process, paper and inks, having done press checks and worked with a variety proofing materials and systems.

Art DirectorReed Business Information

Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; RUK; Publishing industry

(16 years) Highlands Ranch, CO

Art Director for several magazines, with CED magazine being the main one. Managed others. Designed and produced magazines and ancillary products, as well as, illustrated many of the articles.

Art DirectorInternational Thomson, Cahners and ABC/Cap Cities

(4 years) Denver, CO

Art Director for several magazines, including Technology Today, Cablevision and CED. The work was not done electronically, but used what was called mechanicals–boards with the text and borders pasted onto them with heated wax. Overlays provided other elements like shading and artwork. We worked with the negatives. All this is unlike today, which is totally electronic, where an art director literally does the job of several people.

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