Graphic Designer

Camille Ruiz

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Valley Stream, NY. 11580

516-***-**** / 516-***-**** / ************@*****.***

Online Portfolio at: www.coroflot.com/camille_ruiz

ART DIRECTOR / GRAPHIC DESIGN / PRINT PRODUCTION / PREPRESS

MAC PLATFORM: Indesign, Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, Filemaker & Intermdiate HTML & Image Ready

Professional Experience:

10/08-Present: Freelance Designer: Corporate Color, Newsday, Star Publishing. Tara Toy, NSI Toys, HPNG (Hispanic Professionals Networking Group, Web Banners), Fresh Concentrate (HTML & Image Ready) & Toys-R-Us.

1/07-9/08: Rubie’s Costume, New York

SR. ART DIRECTOR

Responsibilities included design and production of catalogs and packaging with an excellent eye for type manipulation and sense of color. Heavy production involved with every project. Creative manipulation in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign & Quark. Very hands-on. Making prototypes of all packaging for conferences & meetings. Able to manage multiple projects at once to make deadlines. Attend creative brief meetings. Photo retouching in photoshop and working knowledge of the printing process as well as keeping track of all jobs throughout the whole process from layout to print.

4/05-9/06: Doubleday Entertainment, New York

ART DIRECTOR / Bilingual

Responsibilities included design and production of three book clubs (Mosaico, Circulo & Discovery), catalogs, sellsheets, envelopes and direct mail. Delegating jobs to graphic designers, to help out with templates and production under very tight deadlines. Extensive typography knowledge as well as a great sense of color. Ordering stock art images whenever needed. Scanning, retouching and creative manipulation in photoshop. Attended creative brief meetings for each bookclub and cycle, extensive communication with marketing as well as working very closely with the prepress department for printing and keeping track of all jobs. Very heavy production involved.

3/01-4/05: McGraw Hill Construction, New York

ART DIRECTOR

Responsibilities included designing large volumes of projects under extremely tight deadlines, which included design layout and production of Sweets catalogs, marketing and advertising for a large number of clients. Including many business units through-out McGraw-Hill Construction. Also designed China brochures, nametags, ads and banners including backdrop curtains for conferences in Beijing, China. Always keeping the budget in mind. Extensive typography knowledge as well as a great sense of color. Ordering stock art images whenever needed for a project. Scanning, retouching and creative manipulation in photoshop. Logo illustrations when needed. Extensive client communication as well as working closely with printers and vendors. Keeping track of all job status in Filemaker Pro. Very heavy production involved.

5/00-1/01: McGraw-Hill School Division / EDP Dept., New York

SENIOR DESIGNER

Designing interior pages for the Reading and Science program for Teacher's Edition for 2002, Science covers for the Pupils Edition for 2002. Including scanning and retouching, comping layouts and mounting for presentation, researching for stock art and small illustrations and logos. Heavy production involved.

6/96-3/00: St. Martin’s Press, New York

PROMOTIONS ART DIRECTOR

Manage department of four designers, plus freelancers while designing advertising and promotional materials for Trade and Massmarket books such a s brochures, ads, color cards, sell sheets, invitations, stickers, newsletters, posters, risers and pop displays, among many other creative pieces. Also, design three catalogs per season. All projects were done from concept to completion.

Previous Companies Include: Scholastic (91-95), United Media Licensing (88-91), William Byrd Press, Inc. (85-88)

Freelance Designer, New York:

Bates, New York Post, Architectural Magazine, Bozell/Eskew Advertising Agency, The Forward Newspaper, Manhattan Concepts, Harper Collins Publishing, L'Oreal, Travers Tool Company, New York Times, Kelly Media, Different Roads to Learning, Yahoo Internet, Lawerence & Company, Catherine Sadler, Redken, Corporate Color, Newsday, Tara Toy, NSI & HPNG (Hispanic Professionals Networking Group).

Awards & Shows: 1997 Bronze Award from 3-Dimensional Art Directors and Illustrators Award Show for the Design and Art Direction of the Neanderthal Advertising Campaign (Brochure, T-Shirt, and Pop Floor display)

Professional Preparation: Fashion Institute of Technology / N.Y. New York

1983-1985 ADVERTISING DESIGN

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