David Block

Current

• Art Director at Experian Marketing Services

Past

• Senior Graphic Designer at Experian Consumer Direct
• Production Artist (contract position) at Ignite Health
• Owner/Designer at HTM Logic Web Design

• Web Designer at Friend Communications
• Lead Designer at vFinance

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Education

• The Art Institute of California in Orange County
• El Toro High School

Recommended

5 people have recommended David

Connections

87 connections

Industry

Financial Services

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website
• Sample work

David Block’s Summary

Graphic Artist with substantial experience in web design, from direct marketing to deep site design. Possess a broad range of skill sets bridging web and print mediums. Adept at the use of Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, and the rest of the Adobe software library. Intimately familiar with the implementation and administration of digital asset management systems. Interested in new and traditional media, and specifically interested in branding campaigns.

David Block’s Specialties:

All Adobe products: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, SoundBooth, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, After Effects, Premier. I'm also familiar with both PC and MAC environments.

David Block’s Experience

• Art Director

  Experian Marketing Services

  (Public Company; Graphic Design industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  My primary responsibilities are to maintain the Experian brand integrity and support the design needs of the rest of my team. My job has me storyboarding, designing, and producing voice-over for Flash animations, as well as designing offline collateral, and various inter/intraoffice graphics, graphics for PowerPoint slides, and fulfilling design requests on an as needed basis.

• Senior Graphic Designer

  Experian Consumer Direct

  (Public Company; EXPN; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — July 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  Responsible for the design of FreeCreditReport.com and a number of other websites. I’ve developed hundreds of banner ads, icons, and landing pages for partners such as AOL, American Express, Discover Card, Hotmail, MSNBC, CNN and more. While the bulk of my work here is web-related, I’ve produced off-line ads, brochures, and logos as well. My position could be considered more of a mix between a graphic designer and an art director. In addition to my design duties, I took on administration of the Digital Asset Management application, Canto Cumulus. This includes ingesting and metatagging over 50 gigabytes of digital files. I was also responsible for training and assisting coworkers to utilize the application.

• Production Artist (contract position)

  Ignite Health

  (Financial Services industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  Hired to bridge the gap between the print and web departments, my responsibilities ranged from building static or interactive presentations and creating Flash components for websites, to building brochures, multi-page documents, convention booth graphics, etc.

• Owner/Designer

  HTM Logic Web Design

  (Design industry)

  February 1994 — August 2004 (10 years 7 months)

  This was a family owned web development company I ran in partnership with my father. My responsibilities were to generate new business, design all websites, and develop all graphic materials for clients, as well as maintain and updated content on all sites.

• Web Designer

  Friend Communications

  (Graphic Design industry)

  January 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 6 months)

  Developed all graphic materials for the corporate and consumer websites, created designs for hundreds of template-driven sites, designed direct marketing email campaigns, and all printed collateral.

• Lead Designer

  vFinance

  (Public Company; VFIN; Financial Services industry)

  January 1994 — December 2000 (7 years )

  Created all graphic materials and managed content. This website was the first of it’s kind in this genre, and to this day, remains the number one resource for Venture Capital online. VFinanace was created and owned by HTM Logic, a family owned and operated web design company, and was sold to an Investment Banking firm in 1998, who hired HTM Logic to continue maintaining the site on a three year contract, after which our involvement in further development was changed to an as-needed basis.

Additional Information

David Block’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website
• Sample work

David Block’s Interests:

Graphic Design, Logo Design, Dog training, Skating, Fencing, (yes, I said Fencing)

David Block’s Groups:

•    Experian
•    Graphic Design
•    Art Institute Graduates
•    Cold Hard Flash
•    Experian Marketing Services

David Block’s Honors:

Charter member of President’s Club, Honor roll, Dean’s list, President’s list, 2001 - 2004 AICA-OC

Recipient, Student Creativity Design Award – June 24, 2003 Lawrence and Ponder Ideaworks, Newport Beach, CA

VFinance.com, Venture Capital Resource website awards:
• 11/98 - Wall Street Journal selected vfinance.com as the number one resource for venture capital on the Internet
• 8/97 - Snap Online “Editors Choice”
• 4/97 – PC World “Best of the Net”
• 2/97 – Entrepreneur Magazine "Top 100”

David Block’s Contact Settings

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