Illustrator & Art Director
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Illustrator at Dave Stolte
- Freelance Art Director at 3rd Eye Design
- Past
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- Senior Graphic Designer & Project Manager at William Hezmalhalch Architects
- Senior Art Director at Phoenix Marketing
- Art Director & Macintosh Systems Administrator at Newport Communications
- Graphics Director at The Communications Group
- Lead Designer & Macintosh Systems Administrator at GRAFX Group
- Art Director at Printing Mailing Service, Inc.
- Education
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- California State University-Long Beach
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Dave Stolte’s Summary
For over twenty-five years now -- from waxing type to Wacom tablets, from stat cameras to styling with CSS -- it's been my pleasure to provide clarity, restraint, and surprise in design and illustration.
My freelance illustration business provides unique digital mixed-media collage editorial art to a variety of clients in a whimsical, humorous, and colorful style.
3rd Eye Design functions as a one-man studio providing uncompromising quality and originality to clients -- local, national, and international. I enjoy the challenges of creating elegant layout solutions, intuitive web destinations, and timeless logo designs.
Dave Stolte’s Specialties:
illustration, design, art director, print design, logo design, web design
Dave Stolte’s Experience
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Illustrator
Dave Stolte
(Graphic Design industry)
January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)
Illustrator Dave Stolte studied Studio Art at California State University Long Beach, then spent twenty-five years in the world of design doing other people's work before finding his own voice. (Sometimes these things take a while.) Drawing on a history of physical mixed-media collage and useless Post-It doodles, his images are created using a library of paper textures, found ephemera, and photography, then digitally composed under his original pencil sketches. His illustrations have been used as editorial art, poster designs, magazine covers, and fine-art gicleés.
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Freelance Art Director
3rd Eye Design
(Design industry)
January 1990 — Present (19 years 11 months)
My continuing freelance projects have included magazine illustrations (both editorial and technical), logo design, package design, T-shirt art, book cover illustrations, billboard design, technical brochure illustrations, web page creation and commissioned multimedia paintings for private collectors. I work for local, national, and international clients - all receive the same attention to detail and friendly, professional service.
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Senior Graphic Designer & Project Manager
William Hezmalhalch Architects
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
June 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 8 months)
William Hezmalhalch Architects is the highly-regarded and award-winning firm responsible for the design of Ladera Ranch as well as many other residential and retail developments. As Senior Graphic Designer, I worked directly with architects and land planners to communicate highly technical information to a wide audience – home buyers to builders to city governments. I was also responsible for training junior designers in layout and applications and researched the art department’s proposed transition from Windows to the Apple platform. My duties as Project Manager encompassed working with multiple team members and vendors of varying ability to ensure project quality and completion on deadline.
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Senior Art Director
Phoenix Marketing
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2001 — October 2001 (3 months)
Phoenix Marketing provides full-service marketing solutions to the financial, travel, and food industries. My responsibilities as Senior Art Director included project management, client contact, and supervision of junior designers. My time at Phoenix became short-lived when the client I was hired to service (NYC-based Equitable Distributors) pulled out of a commitment to bring more work to the agency in Fall, 2001.
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Art Director & Macintosh Systems Administrator
Newport Communications
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
July 1999 — June 2001 (2 years )
Newport Communications is the leading publisher for the trucking industry. My responsibilities included creation of all original art, selection of submitted photos for publication, logo design, and quality control on all documents prior to film output. I restructured the company’s network file-organization system and assisted in the overall design refinement of RoadStar magazine. Soon after, the company’s flagship publication of seventy-five years, Heavy Duty Trucking, was completely redesigned as a team effort based largely on my original concepts. I also directed photo shoots and traveled nationally to meet and assess potential vendors for prepress, print, and web services.
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Graphics Director
The Communications Group
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 1998 — December 1998 (11 months)
The Communications Group provides creative video, print, and new media solutions for a variety of high-tech corporate clients, primarily Toshiba. My responsibilities included training all employees (Mac and Windows) in all aspects of basic- to advanced functions in various applications, ensuring every project’s visual quality, creating original content for all projects ranging from character animation to multimedia presentations to video animation, creating and implementing job tracking and digital media-organization systems, working with outside vendors, client meetings, and trade show production.
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Lead Designer & Macintosh Systems Administrator
GRAFX Group
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
March 1995 — September 1997 (2 years 7 months)
With GRAFX Group, I used the skills developed over ten years of print experience and applied solid design sense to the emerging aspects of electronic media: web page design, animated product demonstrations, and interface design. I worked in a cross-platform environment and coordinated tasks between clients, animators, programmers, job tracking, and management. I was also responsible for Macintosh system maintenance. Clients included ARCO, Philips, Indeo, Autodesk, and Toshiba.
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Art Director
Printing Mailing Service, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 1992 — August 1995 (3 years 7 months)
Here, I supervised a staff of three junior designers in a fast-paced production-oriented environment. A typical day was spent dividing my attention between training junior designers, creating layouts and custom graphics, proofing all jobs for proper color setup, fold and trim, checking for grammar or spelling problems, and consulting with various in-house departments and outside vendors to ensure the quality of each job.
Dave Stolte’s Education
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California State University-Long Beach
1987 — 1991
Additional Information
Dave Stolte’s Websites:
Dave Stolte’s Interests:
illustration, design, music, film, cooking
Dave Stolte’s Groups:
- AIGA Los Angeles
- County of Riverside Regional Occupational Program Advisory Committee
- Access to Artistic Excellence
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AIGA | the professional association for design -
AIGA Orange County
Dave Stolte’s Honors:
Selected
Society of Illustrators
Illustration 51, 2009
Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award: RoadStar’s “Hours of Service” series, 2000
Maggie Award, Best New Trade Publication: RoadStar, 1999
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