Marketing Manager at Luxul Wireless
Greater Salt Lake City Area
- Current
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- Marketing Manager at Luxul Wireless
- Owner at Your Art Director (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Art Director at Linux Networx
- Production Director/Graphic Designer at Great American Scrapbook Company
- Production Director/Graphic Designer at Scrapbook Retailer magazine
- Graphic Designer at Harman Music Group
- Marketing Art Director at SanSegal Sportswear
- Marketing Art Director at Attitude Sportswear
- Marketing Art Director at Jarray Sportwear
- Education
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- California State University-Long Beach
- Santa Monica College
- Pierce College
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Kenton Smith’s Summary
Experience:
Graphic Design of all things printed and interactive. Brand development and management, advertising, marketing, web design, Industrial design.
Goals:
To develop a network of design professions that I can call on to get the projects of my clients done, while I keep the brand and marketing message on track.
Kenton Smith’s Specialties:
My experience is in art direction and print design. I have worked with web programmers, Photographers, printers, industrial designers, fine artists and much more to accomplish the goals of my clients. Check out my website, www.yourartdirector.com.
Kenton Smith’s Experience
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Marketing Manager
Luxul Wireless
(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
I am in charge of all outbound marketing materials and trade shows.
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Owner
Your Art Director (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Graphic Design industry)
January 1984 — Present (25 years 7 months)
What is your brand?
Your company’s image, designed to create the desired response from your customers.
What is an Art Director?
The brand guide for your company, working to keep the visual voice of your company strong, effective and consistent.
So what is Your Art Director?
Your Art Director is more than 22 years of experience.
Your Art Director is a network of designers, illustrators, photographers, videographers, CAD designers, marketers, writers, editors and more—all working together under Kenton Smith’s direction to orchestrate highly effective company communication.
Your Art Director is what your company needs to create the desired response from your customers. -
Art Director
Linux Networx
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry)
October 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 5 months)
Art Director. In charge of the company brand. Design all things public facing, both in print and on the web. Have input on some industrial design.
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Production Director/Graphic Designer
Great American Scrapbook Company
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Arts and Crafts industry)
June 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Great American Scrapbook Company puts on four consumer scrapbook trade shows a year. Design responsibilities were forms, signs, maps, and show books.
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Production Director/Graphic Designer
Scrapbook Retailer magazine
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
June 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Production and graphic design of a bi-monthly 200 page business to business scrapbook industry magazine. Design includes articles and customer ad design, art directing photo shoots and cover design. I also created power point presentations for classes we taught at trade shows, and designed signs and handouts for those shows. Production consists of pagination layout, flight checking ads and articles, converting all files to hi-resolution PDFs, and press checks.
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Graphic Designer
Harman Music Group
(Public Company; Graphic Design industry)
May 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Designed materials for new product launches, including packaging, manuals, point of purchase displays, magazine advertisements and trade show booth graphics. Worked with photographers to get images for web, packaging and all advertising.
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Marketing Art Director
SanSegal Sportswear
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
July 1995 — February 2000 (4 years 8 months)
Marketing Art Director/Trade Show Manager. Designed, photographed, produced and distributed all sales materials and tools for three sportswear companies and their subsidiary companies. Created, designed and trained over 40 sales reps on the use and care of a digital catalog containing over 2000 screen-print and embroidery t-shirt designs and garments. Designed, organized and shipped trade show booth, garment samples and sales materials. Supervised the Marketing and Sample departments.
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Marketing Art Director
Attitude Sportswear
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
July 1995 — February 2000 (4 years 8 months)
Company owned by SanSegal Sportswear. See job Description under SanSegal Sportswear.
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Marketing Art Director
Jarray Sportwear
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
July 1995 — February 2000 (4 years 8 months)
Company owned by SanSegal Sportswear. See job Description under SanSegal Sportswear.
Kenton Smith’s Education
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California State University-Long Beach
Graphic Design 1985 — 1988
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Santa Monica College
Graphic Design 1984 — 1987
While in school I worked for my design professors in their studio.
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Pierce College
Technical Illustration 1981 — 1984
