Graphic Design Experience :
Experience since 1989 — graduating from hand lettered comps to the complex pre-press print production with Quark Express / InDesign. Multimedia design scripting experience • Certified Flash MX Developer • web Development. Content creation of Illustrations and Logos using special Cartooning & Calligraphy skills.


Technical Writing Experience:
Experienced writer of brochure ad copy and technical website copy optimized for sales & Web Search Engine Positioning.

Skilled at writing Creative Briefs & Node Maps for complicated Multimedia Projects.

Software Skills: Photoshop/ Illustrator Creative Suite CS2, Adobe Dreamweaver / Flash Pro 8
Prepress: QuarkXpress, Adobe InDesign CS5 & Silverfast AI / Color Calibration software • Epson 4800 transparency film scanner
Hardware Experience : • Mac OSX Snow Leopard Server • Windows XP / 7 • Certified Mac 10.6 Technical Coordinator (Server Maintenance) • Small Office networking with Windows SMB Active Directory & Mac 10.6 Open Directory

Feature page showing past construction projects of Hoffman Corp. Cover of Hbeam, Hoffman Corp. Employee quarterly newsletter Spring 1999. Hoffman Construction: Spring 1999. Assembled "HBeam" employee newspaper with re-designed logo & layout with the help of staff writer. Created 100+ page sales promotion documents on tight deadlines. Design production duties included creating graph charts, Powerpoint Sales presentations and flyers.

TV Host: 1998 - 1999. Desktop publisher, produced print ads, proofed and edited TV program grids to meet the weekly deadlines. Skilled with Quark 3.32, Photoshop & Flightcheck. Gained experience in "pre-press" to comfortably work small publications.
Design work for Fox 49 KPDX TV, showing print promo flyer produced with assembled images burned into a film negative. KPDX Fox 49, Portland, OR : 1989 - 1990 Graphic Design Internship, Assisted Art Director with print promotion flyers.

Oregon Business Magazine / Mediamerica: 1991 - 1992. Assisted Art Director as an in-house graphic artist. Produced Real Estate Guide Books & 1991-1992 Rose Festival Guides. Work included traditional paste-up, rubylith cutting.


Bowers Deli Sandwich Lunch menu, showing the menu organized for bread choices, meats and cheeses. Layout has plenty of white space and food illustrations. Freelance Graphic Design & Illustration: 1976 - Present. Designed logos, business cards, flyers, signs and wrote ad-copy for small business clients.Such as menu & logo re-design for for Bower's Bakery. ( On the right ...)
Created numerous cartoon & caricature illustrations for newsletters & ads. In 1996, created caricatures for an AT&T Wireless sales award presentation. where I used a "hybrid" hand illustration & Photoshop techniques to produce "air-brushed" color composite caricatures.

Advanced Photoshop / AfterEffects Skills
M. Goldberg, Artist Archive Project
Artwork slides were scanned at high resolution, corrected for color.
Restored & archived artwork that was seemingly "lost" from very damaged 35mm slides.

©2009 Philip O'Neil