Art Director + Photographer
San Francisco Bay Area
Art Director + Photographer
San Francisco Bay Area
I am a freelance art director, mixed media artist, and photographer. I welcome straight forward advertising, travel, and documentary photo assignments as well as advertising, concept, and illustration work. For questions and comments please contact me at cathy@yellowmgnolia.com
(Fine Art industry)
August 2002 — Present (7 years)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
1995 — August 2001 (6 years)
Art Director, site designer, html coder, production department manager, graphic designer, hiring and outsourcing all creative talent, user interface design for consumer and corporate based websites. Lead focus study groups on in house and outsourced logo and site design projects.
(Publishing industry)
1992 — 1994 (2 years)
Art Director for new regional and local magazine. Developed initial template designs for magazine. Determined artwork, typefaces, photographic style, and overall look and feel of magazine. Hired illustrators and photographers, production artists and managed and in house team of production designers who helped aid in getting magazine out each and every month.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
1990 — 1992 (2 years)
First worked as a production assistant working with the Art Director and after a year of creativng advertisement, learning the basics of publishing and national art magazine I was promoted to Art Director and oversaw the editorial spreads, managed all art, hiring of the photographers and illustrators and re-designed the old layouts and completed new re-designs on all aspects of magazine. Tragically the publisher suddenly passed and the magazine continued on for only a year after that but the experience was invaluable and I was able to foster my Art Director skill set at an early age and was able to cultivate it for many years to come. Over time with the digital and dot come revolution my skills evolved to user interface, web site design and all things digital and interactive.
Documentary and Experimental Filmmaking 2006 — 2008
BFA , Illustration and DocumentaryPhotography , 1987 — 1990