Heather Shaw

Creative Marketing & Design

Lisle, IL, USA

Work Experience

Swap.com / Netcycler

Freelance Graphic Designer

• Original design work on a number of creative projects: Event flyers, Fundraising Check, Web advertisements and banners (fixed and animated), original illustrations to be applied to shipped materials.
• Brand management: Adhering to style rules and guidelines to ensure company brand is well perceived.
• Editing, preparing existing materials for print production: business cards, employee ID cards.
• Assisting with and creating future project plans.
September 2013 - Present Addison, Illinois, United States

First Midwest Bank

Marketing Creative Associate

• Design, produce and contribute to a range of creative projects and marketing activities including:
• Brand Management: Adhering to style rules and guidelines to ensure company branding is well perceived, as well as, rebranding outdated materials.
• Lobby Campaigns: Generating multiple ideas, preparing and producing a wide range of marketing materials for Deployment and creating Plan-o-grams for a retail setting.
• Copy: Writing, Editing, Proofreading
• Initiated a proofreading process to keep web content consistent with brand style.
• Materials: Print and Web ads and graphics, brochures, menus, invitations, flyers, posters, newsletters, financial professional sell sheets.
• Images: Successfully selecting and prepping stock images that retain brand voice and messages.
• Production: Preparing artwork for review and production while coordinating with print and stock vendors.
- Creating and editing forms and templates.
- Keeping track of quotes, invoices and compliance reviews.
September 2013 - March 2014 Itasca, Illinois, United States

Fox Valley Animal Welfare League

Freelance Graphic Designer

• Designed and managed "You Can't Save Them All" Campaign published in Naperville Dog Magazine, online and print.
• Consistent collaboration with volunteer marketing coordinator to drive the design & production of postcards, posters, mailers, and web graphics
• Worked with clinic volunteers and copywriters to ensure the League's identity and the feeling of the campaign stays unified and clear.
August 2012 - September 2013 North Aurora, Illinois, United States

Fisher Printing

Freelance Graphic Designer/Artist

• Created and updated pre-press production art weekly for local grocery stores in the Chicago-land area.
• Proofreading, Pre-flighting, and otherwise preparing art files for final prints.
• Within a deadline heavy focused setting, worked with clients and associates to ensure weekly ads and banners had correct copy and image cuts.
• Created new ideas for icons, banners and typographic styles to be used by current graphic artists
• Maintained a file database of images to use for artwork.
July 2013 - July 2013 Bridgeview, Illinois, United States

Family Bridges Chicago

Visual Communications Associate

Creating visual solutions to communicate the company’s cause and mission, maintaining brand value in creating marketing materials such as brochures, phone app graphics and fundraiser invitations.

• Developed high quality icons and graphics for web applications; "Parents With A Purpose" and "Give" executed on the Gloo.us application systems.
• Drove cover and layout design in the publication, "Romance Perpetuo." Worked with editors and writers to contribute to the all Spanish content.
• Provided low-budget digital mock-up ideas for online store presence.
November 2012 - July 2013 Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Fox Valley Animal Welfare League

Graphic Design Volunteer

Responsible for maintaining communication with supervisor, working toward a deadline, designing for donation programs and overall company identity and on going campaigns.
August 2012 - North Aurora, Illinois, United States

American Technical Publishers, Inc.

Technical Artist Intern

Developed two- and three-dimensional high-quality technical illustrations and layouts for textbook, other print materials, and multimedia products in the electrical, mechanical, culinary and architectural fields.
May 2011 - August 2012 Orland Park, Illinois, United States

DuPage Children's Museum

Graphic Design Intern

Worked to understand and solve communication problems with the marketing staff and in-house graphic designer while continually designing promotional advertising, flyers, postcards, web-graphics, and illustrations for museum exhibits and signage.
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May 2010 - August 2010 Naperville, Illinois, United States

Education

Columbia College Chicago

Bachelor in Fine Arts; Graphic Design

September 2010 - Chicago, Illinois, United States

College Of DuPage

Associate in Applied Science; Ad Art/Illustration

September 2006 - May 2009 Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States

Awards

Portfolio Night

Honorable Mention for Portfolio Development

2009

Portfolio Night

Finalist for Graphic Design; "Naperville Kite Fesitval" Event Logo

2009

Skills

Digital Photography, Package Design, Publishing, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Autocad, Basica HTML/CSS, Branding, Illustration, Logo Design, Mac OS, Print Design And Layout,