Joel Smythe

Current

• Owner/Graphic Designer at The Graphics Lab

Past

• Graphic Designer at The Sign Center
• Graphic Designer / Art Director at Kidpower, Inc.
• Graphic Designer and then Art Dept. Manager at IBLP

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Industry

Graphic Design

Joel Smythe’s Summary

Professional graphic design services for small to medium sized companies specializing in overflow creative and production design for advertising agencies and in-house marketing departments, as well as package design.

Joel Smythe’s Specialties:

design for print, branding, Identity, package design

Joel Smythe’s Experience

• Owner/Graphic Designer

  The Graphics Lab

  (Graphic Design industry)

  May 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

  Professional graphic design services for small to medium sized companies specializing in overflow creative and production design for advertising agencies and in-house marketing departments, as well as package design.

• Graphic Designer

  The Sign Center

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Printing industry)

  July 2005 — 2008 (3 years )

  Design signs for digital output on larger format printers as well as cut vinyl (banners, billboards, real estate, development, etc.)

• Graphic Designer / Art Director

  Kidpower, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  July 1996 — May 2000 (3 years 11 months)

  Designed creative packaging solutions and marketing material for Kidpower, Inc. toy company, the developer of the Funnoodle brand of pool toys, the number 1 selling summer toy in America for a few years in a row, along with other popular toys sold through WalMart, Toys"R"Us, Target, Kmart, Sam's and Costco.
  Designed packaging for licensed products like Jay Jay the Jet Plane and Maurice Sendak's Little Bear among others.

• Graphic Designer and then Art Dept. Manager

  IBLP

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

  November 1993 — July 1996 (2 years 9 months)

  Worked in the in-house publications and printing department. Worked as typesetter and graphic designer and eventually managed art department.

Additional Information

Joel Smythe’s Groups:

Empty Hands Fellowship

•    CreativeBLVD Graphic Design Group
•    Mercy Childrens Clinic
•    Adobe Software Users
•    the615 | Nashville Area Creatives (the615.com)
•    Adobe Photoshop Group
•    Graphic Design Professional Group
•    Link In! Williamson County, TN