Jim Borth
Art Director
Cedar Grove, NJ, USADesign, typography, illustration, interactivity. Good things.
Work Experience
Adelaide Metrics
Creative Technology Director
Having developed Adelaide's foundational branding in its infancy - including logos, color palette, and initial collateral and website - I returned to the team as Creative Technology Director in 2022. I primarily developed Adelaide's flagship dashboard product, overseeing overall design and functionality, and project managing an engineering team to bring the product to our clients. I also contributed to feature improvements and bug fixes through React, D3, Laravel PHP, LookML and Bash code.
January 2022
- June 2023
New York, United States
Parsec Media
Creative Technology Director
Joining a tight team dedicated to elevating digital ads through attention optimization, my role as Creative Technology Director covered designing, pitching, and producing high-impact custom ad media, heading up marketing initiatives and analyzing outcomes to inform optimizations and best practices.
February 2019
- June 2022
New York, United States
Reuters
Art Director
At Reuters, I developed creative solutions for custom and standard ad campaigns across all of Reuters’ consumer digital platforms. I consulted the ad sales team in brainstorming and planning pitches that are unique and exciting to advertisers, advised clients on capabilities and best-practices for success with custom creative and designed, prototyped and published custom interactive ad products.
February 2011
- January 2019
New York, United States
Webscorer
VP, Design
I am a principal in two successful software startups: Webscorer for event timing/organization and TrackCC for class management. In addition to helping establish the businesses' structure and strategies, I am responsible for all aspects of visual direction including branding, product design, marketing and advertising for a pair of mobile app-based software suites.
June 2009
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Washington, United States
Hachette Filipacchi Media
Art Director
In my time at Hachette Filipacchi, I worked primarily with the digital sales and edit teams for their flagship publications, Elle, Woman's Day and Car and Driver. I conceptualized and designed a high volume of pitches and sold campaigns on web and mobile for all titles. On the product side, I was responsible for layout and features for major web relaunches and the initial mobile/app launches of Elle, Elle Girl and Car and Driver.
January 2009
- February 2011
New York, New York, United States
Spiralfrog
Art Director
Starting as a freelance contributor producing a high volume of Flash-animated promotions for artist releases and site features, I was welcomed to the team and oversaw creative direction of the groundbreaking digital music web service. I redesigned the full website for improved user experience, aesthetics and SEO. Collaborating with engineering and marketing teams, we developed innovative new features to engage users and drive advertising revenue.
August 2008
- December 2008
New York, New York, United States
Conde Nast Publications
Senior Designer
September 2006
- August 2008
New York, New York, United States
Education
Skills
Advertising,
CSS,
Dashboard,
Front End,
Illustrator,
Interaction,
JavaScript,
Nerd Stuff,
Photoshop,