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WORK EXPERIENCE

Kurt Ludwig Design
Berkeley, CA
Principal, Director, Designer
Freelance Art Director & Graphic/Web Designer
Managing all business aspects and teams while creating
communications for clients and freelance employers.
June 2003–Present

Select Clients:
ABC-CLIO
Epsilen
GenPlay Games
Harcourt Connected Learning
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Meyer Sound
NeoEdge Networks
Pearson Foundation
Teachers’ Curriculum Institute
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Select Freelance Employers:
Academy Studios, Novato, CA
Design One, San Francisco, CA
Formative, Berkeley, CA
Kane & Finkel, San Francisco, CA
M Space, Sonoma, CA
Marissa Berger Interactive, Concord, CA

Select Clients with Freelance Employers:
AMD (Bite Communications)
Astellas Pharma (Kane & Finkel)
AXA Rosenberg (Formative)
Aradigm (Casper Design Group)
California Department of Health Services
(Crossover Creative Group)
Mission Hill Winery (M Space)
Safeway (Crossover Creative Group)
Wells Fargo (Design One)

Casper Design Group
Berkeley, CA
Graphic Designer (full-time)
Helped clients build and extend their corporate brand-
identity across various media.
March 2000–May 2003

Select Clients:
Asia Foundation
Chiron
DPR Construction
Lucent Technologies
Openwave
PeopleSoft
Sangamo BioSciences
Union Bank of California Foundation

Datascope
Montvale, NJ
Graphic Designer (full-time)
Designed informational and promotional materials
in-house for a leading international medical company.
June 1999–December 1999

EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology
School of Design
Rochester, NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts/Graphic Design
May 1999

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
Dreamweaver CS4
Fireworks CS4
Flash CS4 (beginner)
Illustrator CS4
InDesign CS4
Photoshop CS4
PowerPoint 12
QuarkXPress 8

DESIGN & BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
60% Print – Everything from start to finish
40% Web – Design, direction, and minimal coding

Advertising (print & online)
Annual Reports (print & online)
Banners & Posters
Billboards
Branding & Identity
Brochures
Budgeting
Business Collateral
Catalogs
Client Acquisition & New-Business Development
Client Management
Client Meetings
Color Correction
Conferences & Trade Shows
Consulting
Contracts
Copy Writing & Editing
Creative Team Management
Current Trends
Deadlines
Editorial
Environmental Graphics
Estimates & Proposals
Graphic/HTML Emails
HTML & CSS (beginner)
Image Libraries
Interactive Media
Letterheads & Business Cards
Maintaining Software Updates
Marketing Strategy
Newsletters (print & online)
Packaging
Photography
Pre-Press Production
Press Checks
Print & Vendor Management
Proofing
SEO & Web Analytics
Social Media Management
Style Guides & Templates (print & online)
Third-Party Art Management
Trademarks (Logos)
Typesetting
Web Production/Image Optimization
Websites
Wine Labels
Wireframes

Available for full-time, part-time, and freelance work
References and print portfolio available upon request