Kerry Ann Hawkins

Current

Freelance Graphic Designer at Kerry Hawkins Graphic Design

Past

Senior Graphic Designer at Boston Symphony Orchestra
Graphic Designer at Communications Collaborative
Graphic Designer at West•Press Printing and Copying

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Education

The Art Institute of Boston
Walpole High School

Recommended

4 people have recommended Kerry Ann

Connections

135 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

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Kerry Ann Hawkins’s Summary

Graphic designer with solid print design background,experienced designing a wide variety of projects from invitations, direct mail, logos, flyers, brochures, booklets, posters, to billboards

Kerry Ann Hawkins’s Specialties:

Quark Xpress, Indesign, Illustrator CS3, Photoshop CS3, Fine Art Digital Photography, Mac-Based

Kerry Ann Hawkins’s Experience

Freelance Graphic Designer

Kerry Hawkins Graphic Design

(Graphic Design industry)

December 2006 — Present (3 years )

Experienced designing a wide variety of projects from invitations, direct mail, logos, flyers, brochures, booklets, posters, to billboards

Clients have included Celebrity Series of Boston, Waltham Fields Community Farm, Project Step, Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM), and Nantucket School of Art and Design.
Senior Graphic Designer

Boston Symphony Orchestra

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Performing Arts industry)

March 2000 — December 2006 (6 years 10 months)

Executed design projects for the Boston Symphony, ensuring that projects were completed on time and within budget and addressed the different marketing needs of each piece.

Projects have included weekly/daily Boston Symphony, Tanglewood and Pops ads, mass transit ads, taxi tops, banners, billboards, flyers, large format posters, Symphnoy Hall signs and direct mail pieces.

Designed several self-produced CD packages including the Holiday Pops CD “Sleigh Ride,” 2005.

Worked withoutside design firm Sametz Blackstone to continue the overall look of the each season and brand with all other materials designed in-house.

Over the past six years the BSO in-house design team has taken over 90 percent of the projects originally designed by Sametz Blackstone.

Uploaded and tracked ads for publication in local and regional newspapers. Created banners and photographed gift items for the symphony website.
Graphic Designer

Communications Collaborative

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

September 1999 — February 2000 (6 months)

Graphic Designer and production artist for this temporary agency. Clients included The Wang Center for the Performing Arts, HTNB Architecture Inc., The Ink Spot, Acom Healthcare, and J Baker Inc.
Graphic Designer

West•Press Printing and Copying

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Printing industry)

October 1994 — June 1999 (4 years 9 months)

Graphic designer in an in-house art department. Designed and typeset projects including newsletters, brochures, ads, business cards and book covers.

Also designed promotional materials, often using original photography and illustrations, for West•Press, a full service printer.

Knowledge of printing process from one-color to four-color process.

Operated imagesetter to produce both Macintosh and PC digital output of customer artwork for plating.