Photographer and Graphic Designer
Bellingham, Washington Area
- Past
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- Pre-Press Graphic Designer at Precision Label
- Graphic Designer at The Bellingham Herald
- Associate editor at Talk of the Town/Our Town
- Graphics editor at The North Beach Beacon
- Education
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- Grays Harbor Community College
- Aberdeen High School
- Connections
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- Industry
- Graphic Design
- Websites
Dave Ward’s Summary
• 20 years of graphic design and layout experience
• 30 years of photography experience
• 10 years of administrative experience
• Excellent communication abilities; interact effectively with others and work well independently
Dave Ward’s Specialties:
• Over 20 years graphic design skills — layout, design, pagination, drawing, photography, commercial design, marketing, advertising design, copyrighting, prepress, web design and web development.
• 30 years photography experience — photo illustration, portraits, product photography, editorial, fashion, glamor, conceptual, nature, landscape, still life and more
Dave Ward’s Experience
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Pre-Press Graphic Designer
Precision Label
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)
September 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Prepared artwork for press run including color management, working with combinations of process and Pantone spot colors, trapping, recreation of art which was provided initially in poor quality, and creation of designs entirely from scratch.
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Graphic Designer
The Bellingham Herald
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
January 1998 — September 2006 (8 years 9 months)
Built complex advertisements on a daily basis in a deadline environment — everything from large, detailed real estate and auto dealer ads to retail ads; designed animated banner and button ads for internet use; graphic design; copy entry; pre-press and pagination of Classified advertisements; Pantone and CMYK color processes; assignment photography for ad representatives; troubleshooting Macintosh computer problems; image processing.
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Associate editor
Talk of the Town/Our Town
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry)
1994 — 1995 (1 year )
Wrote and reported for the paper; pagination; page design; all general office management.
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Graphics editor
The North Beach Beacon
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Newspapers industry)
1991 — 1993 (2 years )
Various graphic design — designed the whole look/feel of the newspaper; illustration; writing; pagination; paste-up; copy editing and content editing.
Dave Ward’s Education
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Grays Harbor Community College
Art, Journalism, Music 1988 — 1991
- Activities and Societies:
- The Timberline student newspaper
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Aberdeen High School
1983 — 1988
Additional Information
Dave Ward’s Websites:
Dave Ward’s Interests:
photography, graphic design
Dave Ward’s Groups:
Flickr
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Professional Photography
Dave Ward’s Honors:
• Photographs featured in national advertising campaigns for Sunkist products and Washington State Tourism (2006 to present)
• Photograph featured on the cover of the novel Blackmoor (iUniverse, 2006)
• Photographs featured in German pop culture magazine, Max (April 2006)
• Photograph featured on business cards for a large Tacoma-based engineering firm (2005)
• Photograph featured on main page of Comparative Literature Department of University of California at Berkley website http://complit.berkeley.edu (2005 to present)
• Editorial cartoons published in the Aberdeen Daily World (1991-1993)
• Awarded Mark of Distinction in Art and Graphics from the Associated Collegiate Press 1989
• Won 1 year art scholarship in Grays Harbor art show 1988
• Received recognition from ESD 113 Regional High School Art Show 1988
• Second place in Single Graphics from the Washington Press Association 1988
• Rhode Island School of Design Annual Art Award for 1988
Dave Ward’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
