Freelance Graphic Designer Resume

Angel Reeves
1234 Cobblestone Drive
Pinellas Park, OH
Home: 727-555-5555
Cell: 727-555-5556
Email: angel_reeves@netlog.com
Website: angelreeves-design.com

Objective
Creative and devoted Artist seeking a complete-time position with advancement chance to help enhance my understanding in graphics.

Qualifications Summary

• Greater than five years of diverse, hands-on design experience including experience of web-site design, magazine posting and marketing.
• Adaptable, organized, results and detail-oriented with excellent work ethic, strong personal time management and social abilities.
• Capability to create designs, concepts, and sample designs according to understanding of layout concepts and aesthetic design concepts.
• Extensive understanding of design techniques, tools, and concepts involved with manufacture of precision technical plans, blueprints, sketches, and models.
• Capability to develop unusual or clever ideas in regards to a given subject or situation, in order to develop creative methods to solve an issue.
• Team player also able to work individually with minimal direction.

Education
College of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

• Bachelor's Degree in Arts-Graphics (This summer 2001)
• Associate's in Applied Design

Experience
Contract Artist: 12 ,. 2004 - Present, The Creative Group, Cleveland, OH

• Accountable for matching and creating of a number of graphics items and services, supplying graphics and art direction for advertisements, news letters, report covers, annual reviews, pamphlets, exhibit shows, maps, slide shows and also the government cable television funnel.
• Other responsibilities: Identifying size and arrangement of illustrative material and duplicate, choosing style and size type, and organizing designs based on available space, understanding of layout concepts, and aesthetic design concepts.
• Study illustrations, photographs and text to organize presentation of items and services.
• Review designs and suggest enhancements when needed.
• Prepare the set up of ultimate designs for printing, and review and approve art materials.
• Provide expert analysis and input on others designs.

Freelance Artist: Jan. 2000 - November. 2004, MJ Design, Cleveland, OH

• Accountable for finishing various freelance design projects including development of a bi-monthly printed e-newsletter for any lawyers' association, style of various logos, and artwork for that silk-screening company, PQ Design &lifier Silk-Screening.
• Accountable for the coordination and manufacture of a number of graphics items and services.
• Prepared and believed costs, matched graphic production and reproduction by service agencies.
• Put together final designs for printing and provided graphics for website.

*Work samples incorporated within my portfolio.