Designer at O'Berry | Cavanaugh
Great Falls, Montana Area
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- Designer at O'Berry | Cavanaugh
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- Designer at Thibeault Studios
- Freelance Production Designer at Knowledge Learning Corporation
- Design Intern at ID Branding
- Print Center at The Art Institute of Portland
- Design Intern at defacto Industries
- Education
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- Art Institute of Portland
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Joseph Bergantine’s Summary
Living in Montana, skiing on ridgelines above treeline, you get used to seeing huge distances, 50 miles at a time. When taking photographs I get used to getting into the tiny details to make sure I capture the image I want.
My approach to design is a combination of these two ways of seeing. Whether it’s a business card or a website or a logo, I try to keep that wide view in mind—so that I see the whole picture, the entire image that the client sees.
Joseph Bergantine’s Specialties:
Thorough understanding of the HTML and CSS rendering capabilities of browsers and email clients
Develop structured, semantic, Standards-compliant code using: HTML, XHTML, Microformats, CSS, JavaScript and PHP
Create comprehensive, production-ready layouts in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks, and Photoshop for print and web
Deploy and maintain SQL databases
Create and structure content using White Hat SEO techniques
Setup and customize Google Analytics for ROI and SEO metrics
Joseph Bergantine’s Experience
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Designer
O'Berry | Cavanaugh
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
As a designer at O’Berry|Cavanaugh, I work to carry a brand’s image and message through to the Web. An advocate for standards-based development, I keep an eye on the human factors of design while developing creative directions for electronically-presented media. I also work closely with the marketing team to create search engine friendly content and develop publishing strategies that maximize the medium.
Sometimes I even jump into print—that is my background after all—I have a soft spot for catalogs and have worked on a number of manufacturing books as well as national retail publications. I love typography and thrive on the experience of finding the right glyph when typesetting something, much like finding the correct markup for some bit of content in HTML. -
Designer
Thibeault Studios
(Graphic Design industry)
February 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 3 months)
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Freelance Production Designer
Knowledge Learning Corporation
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Education Management industry)
October 2005 — February 2006 (5 months)
As an in-house designer, I worked within the established brand to create logos and print collateral for secondary projects and programs. It was here that I began my career as a Web standards advocate; while troubleshooting and re-coding their biweekly HTML email newsletter.
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Design Intern
ID Branding
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2005 — September 2005 (8 months)
I completed two back-to-back but separate internships with ID Branding. During the first, I worked in the graphic design department under the direction of the senior designer on a variety of branding projects. As part of a large team I often was the last person to touch a job—getting files press-ready under tight deadlines. During the second semester I interned in the Studio (as the production department was named), primarily working in Photoshop to create graphics for mobile interfaces as part of a large intranet project.
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Print Center
The Art Institute of Portland
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)
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Design Intern
defacto Industries
(Graphic Design industry)
September 2004 — December 2004 (4 months)
At defacto industries I worked with Todd Houlette, the principal and creative director, on a variety of projects for Nike, Students Run Portland, and the Portland International Film Festival in the areas of production and graphic design. On a week-to-week basis this meant that I might be hand sketching logos, setting the addresses of 40 different retail locations, developing a creative direction for a promotional slide series, illustrating the merchandising of a new clothing line, or optimizing graphics for output on a 30x10-foot triptych. All-in-all, this was one of the most diversely creative jobs I’ve ever had.
Joseph Bergantine’s Education
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Art Institute of Portland
BS, Graphic Design, 2002 — 2005
A Bozeman native, I decided to leave Montana to go to college. After looking at a number of schools I choose the Art Institute of Portland. (Portland’s just a bigger, more creative version of Bozeman, ask any of the boomerangers you run into there). The Art Institutes’ curriculum develops creative thinking through the study of the social sciences and fine art while working with current technologies and process in use in the field of study so that the production abilities of its graduates are generally top notch.
- Activities and Societies:
- AIPD AIGA
Additional Information
Joseph Bergantine’s Websites:
Joseph Bergantine’s Groups:
AIGA, The Art Institute of Portland, Web Directions North, Off the Grid
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The Business of Design
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