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Award-winning art director with more than 20 years experience creating visuals in print media, possessing a top level of skills and attention to detail.

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​Proven expertise working in multiple roles including management planning, graphic design, and art direction. Leading daily, short, and long-range projects for clients from beginning stages through production.
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Enthusiastic leader with 10-plus years in supervisory roles including invaluable management skills which include staff scheduling, coaching techniques, as well as monitoring and evaluating employee performance.

Provides artistic leadership, inspiring creative teams to think outside the box through regular and impromptu brainstorming meetings and critiques. Training designers and editors, both formally and informally, on the use of various design software as well as typography.
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​specialties

Photography, design, logo creation, typography, art direction
experience

Director
Asbury Park Design Studio, Gannett
March 2015 – Present
 
Creative Director
Asbury Park Design Studio, Gannett
April 2013 – March 2015

 

 
Team Leader
Asbury Park Design Studio, Gannett
June 2011 – April 2013

Designer
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 2009 – October 2011​

Art Director/Sunday
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
September 2008 – November 2009​
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Graphics Director
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
January 2007 – September 2008​
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Features designer
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
November 2005 – January 2007​

Art Director/Features
The Journal News

December 1997 – September 2005​

education

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Moore College of Art & Design

Philadelphia, PA​

joanne milne sosangelis

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