Graphic Design Experience :
Experience since 1989 — graduating from hand lettered comps to the complex pre-press print production with Quark Express / InDesign CS2 PDF software. Multimedia design scripting experience in Adobe Flash Pro / Dreamweaver 8 web Development. Content creation of Illustrations and Logos using special Cartooning & Calligraphy skills.


Technical Writing Experience:
Experienced writer of “Customer Centered” ad copy that is also optimized for 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 CS2 & Silverfast AI / Color Calibration software
Hardware Experience : Windows XP Pro • Mac OSX • Canon G2 Camera Raw Photography • Epson 4800 transparency film scanner • Sony DV Camera / Non Linear Video Post Production

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.
Print production example of my work at Mediamerica, showing cover of 1991 Rose Festival Airshow Guide 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. Art Director made full use of my design and illustration skills.



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 Skills & Pre Press Workflow:
M. Goldberg, artist Calendar & Archive Project
This project put my Photoshop skills to the test. Artwork slides were scanned at high resolution, corrected for color, stretched images back to normal perspectives -- correcting from bad photo.
I used Silverfast AI to color calibrate my Epson scanner & optimize each slide's color range before editing in Photoshop. I finished project in Adobe InDesign / Acrobat.. Restored & archived artwork that was seemingly "lost" from very damaged 35mm slides.

©2007 Philip O'Neil