Illustrator/Designer

Mark Boyd

469-***-**** Cell

972-***-**** Home

Currently freelancing in the Dallas area. I produce fine art, illustration and design for a number of clients. I have over 30 years experience in the graphics industry.

5/2008 - Current

Elevate Marketing

Dallas Texas

Creative Director (Freelance)

Website Design, Illustration, Copywriting and general production of all marketing and sales material.

12/2004 - Current

Glass Creations

Dallas Texas

Creative Director (Freelance)

Please see: www.glasscreations.net for work I have done. In the past three years, I have created a marketing strategy, implemented a mail campaign, done design and illustration.

12/2003 - 12/2004

Bob Lilly Professional Promotions

Dallas Texas

Creative Director (Freelance)

Design and illustration of all kinds. Brochures, logos, ad layouts and campaigns as well as convention booth design. Illustration in traditional as well as digital formats. Other clients during this period include:

Aviall Aircraft

The Dallas Cowboys

Troy Aikman Auto

DART

4/2001 - 12/2002

Colorhouse Dallas

Dallas Texas

Color Specialist

Color correction to trans and photo prints. Retouch and illustration. Specializing in photo illustration where little or no detail exists. Familiar with Pola Proofing and Waterproofing systems as well as film. Work consisted of ads and campaigns for Ironhorse Motorcycles, Sara Lee, Pria and Powerbar and included both composition and layout as well.

6/2000 - 4/2001

Boyd Design (Self employed)

Sole proprietor

Freelanced as a photo retouch artist/color correction artist in the Dallas area.

Clients included Dr. Pepper, Colorhouse, The Richards Group and others.

4/1999 - 6/2000

LaserTech Color Imaging

Irving, Texas

Retouch/Color Correction Artist

Retouched photos for advertising agencies and corporate clientele. Job required extensive knowledge of Photoshop, Quark and Illustrator in their latest forms. Worked daily with high end color devices for color proofs as well as film devices. Illustration was occasionally needed. Knowledge of four color process as well as fifth color issues was a necessity.

Worked in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark. Used third party filters such as QX Tools, CoCo, Xeno, Blade Pro, etc. on a regular basis.

Masking, color correction, photo manipulation and retouch as well as photo realistic illustrative techniques had to be employed to resolve issues concerning client photos on a regular basis.

Clients included:

Cardz Distribution

Fleer/Marvel Comics

Lucasfilm

Walt Disney

Mrs. Baird's

10/1997 - 4/1999

Hand Tools International Imports

Dallas, Texas

Graphic Artist / Production

Produced packaging for Sears Craftsman, Grainger and Westward lines of product.

Job required digital photography/retouch, package design and conception, tight four color and fifth color work for packages.

Printers were in Taiwan, so preparation was critical.

Did line art Illustration for products in Adobe Illustrator to be used in the owner's manuals. Many of these were exploded views illustrating part numbers. Did tight pencil layouts for packaging as well as packing information faxed to Taiwan for shipping considerations.

9/1993 - 10/1997

Boyd Design (Self employed)

Dallas, Texas

Sole proprietor

In the years between 1993 and 1997, I freelanced and taught Photoshop, Quark, Illustrator and page layout and design at Richland College.

Among my clients were:

Texas Instruments

The Lions Group

Tabor Publishing

Marc USA

Baron Communications

Don Rivera Design

LaserTech Color

Hall Digital Imaging

Marvel Comics

Warriors of the Coast (Magic Cards)

I did package design,mock-ups, layouts, illustration and design. I worked at home as well as on-site.

9/1992 - 9/1993

Hall Digital Imaging

Dallas, Texas

Illustrator/ Graphic Artist

Job originally began as an illustration position. Hall Digital had licensed some of the characters form the gaming companies such as Konami and was producing a series of cards on them with cheats, tips, and tricks on the back side of each card. I pecilled characters based upon the box art asnd screen captures and these were then scanned into the computer and painted in Photoshop. Called Zap packs, the cards were in the second series when I hired on and the set I produced was never printed due to lack of sales on the first set. Afterwards, I produced trading card designs for Cardz distribution, owner of Playoff Football Cards.

The job required extensive knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark. I did outlines for each footbal character used as masks for the chrome foil process the company had patented. I did illustration for some of the Hanna Barbera cards and the Tales from the Crypt card sets they produced. Photo retouch and color correction techniques were also employed at this job to insure good quality film.

5/1990 - 9/1992

Page-Com (now VeriCom)

Dallas, Texas

Art Director

When I started working for this company, they still had a drawing board and flat file storage system. I purchased a Macintosh system, carried out upkeep on the equipment and increased productivity 400% in the first three months I worked there.

PageCom mailed out 100,000 letters a month in a huge direct-mail marketing plan. Though not a manufacturer, they became the second most recognized name in the two way radio industry by way of "branding" and private labeling other manufacturer's products. They carried more parts for Motorola radios than Motorola's own warehouse. Because of PageCom and the work done by the owner of that company, Motorola developed Radius, still its best selling line of radios.

While with the company, I was responsible for all mail-outs, artwork and copy. I created 4 color brochures and catalogs as well supervised photo shoots and did illustration. I worked with third party vendors, wrote copy and created concepts for all collateral material. I did coupons and promotional poster work as well.

5/1989 - 5/1990

Eagle Shield Marketing

Dallas, Texas

Art Director

Designed and produced all printed collateral for the corporation. Eagle Shield was a multi-level marketing organization with over 10,000 active sales associates in the field.

Our art staff produced a monthly four color newsletter, a bi-monthly black and white newsletter, a bi-monthly sales letter, and a weekly corporate news release for the office staff.

We also produced brochures, catalogs, flyers and new product release sheets.

In addition to myself, team included a Senior Art Director, a staff technical writer, and a staff editor.

Job requirements included a working knowledge of Illustrator and Quark Express as well as a good understanding of four color process and fifth color elements.

5/1988 - 5/1989

Triple T Sales and Marketing

Dallas, Texas

Art Director

Worked with a team of artists and a staff photographer to produce advertising and multimedia material for the military sales branch of Goodyear.

Job required knowledge of design as well as good understanding of four color process and fifth color elements.

Art directed photo shoots, supervised other artists on staff.

Worked in Illustrator and Quark express.

Wrote copy, created custom logos, illustrations and designs.

3/1985 - 5/1988

Boyd Design

Dallas, Texas

Owner, Sole Proprietor

Freelanced in the East Texas (Tyler) area prior to 1988. Worked for most of the agencies there.

Did illustration and design, brochures, etc.

Did a LOT of billboard design.

Painted pictorials, billboards, even dabbled in vans for a little while. Painted portraits and did pencilled portraits/characatures. Did some T-shirt design. Designed some Christian Album cover art and worked with several religious organisations on multimedia projects they had going. Worked with a local want-ads newspaper doing layout and design.

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