Kirk Dupuis

Current

• Principal/Creative at Air Assassins
• Owner at Kirkworx Productions

Past

• tweeter at twitter
• Purchaser at Paone Woodworking Corporation
• Creative Director/CPM at Eastern Sign Tech

• Graphic Designer at Service Select
• Creative Director at Compass Signs, LLC
• Project Manager/Sign Program Designer at Allied Sign Systems
• FREELANCE ART AND PROMOTIONS at Tower Records
• Head Designer & Airbrush Artist at Custom Airbrush, Silkscreen & Embroidery
• OWNER at AIRWORX
• ART DIRECTOR at THE INTERCOLLEGIATE UNIVERSITY REPORTER
• Publisher • Art Director • Paste-up/DTP • Illustrator at Parkway Publishing Corporation
• Freelance Designer/Scenic Artist/PA/Set Dresser/Set Decorator at MagicMan Productions
• ARTIST at AIRWORX/WMMR FREELANCE PROMOS
• Freelance Merchandise Designer & Artist at Great Southern Merchandise & Licensed Assets
• colleague freelance at Grupotoro
• Freelance Merchandise Designer & Artist at the brockum group
• Freelance Merchandise Designer & Artist at Bill Graham Presents
• FREELANCE ARTIST at JAMES & SONS COSTUMERS

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Education

• University of San Diego High School
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Southeast Guilford Senior High

• The Governor's school of North Carolina
• Kearny High School
• Holy Family
• FLETCHER ELEMENTARY

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Recommended

6 people have recommended Kirk

Connections

246 connections

Industry

Arts and Crafts

Websites

• My Blog
• My Website
• myKIRKspace

Kirk Dupuis’s Summary

I am continuing on my journey to create. I am currently dialing in to an eventual Senior Executive and Director position with a World-Class Architectural Sign Company or Advertising or Entertainment-oriented Company... Maybe all three in some strongly creative and ideative capacity.

I have been fortunate enough to work for and with some fantastic people throughout my entire life. I have had great mentors, and now I am stepping up to mentor new young talent where I am able.

With an unextinguishable passion to draw, paint, create and design, I intend to travel the world and eventually open a specialized creative studio and learning institute, with the help and partnership of some unique leaders and team members in my network. We can share, teach and help new talent find direction and focus and maybe avoid some of the "hard knocks" we had to endure in more formal educational, vocational and life situations.

I wish for my life adventure to provide a way to take my wife and dog and maybe even my grandson and travel the world, adding experiences to our repertoire to share through art and design with others. Our current concerns are definitely "Green" issues and how we can help impact the planet in a positive practical and effective way for the future.

I will always want to paint murals, forever.

Kirk Dupuis’s Specialties:

30 Years of sign design, fabrication, finishing and industrial, commercial and retail/restaurant/entertainment venue design experience. I am a Visual Creator in a variety of Media.

Kirk Dupuis’s Experience

• Principal/Creative

  Air Assassins

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  March 2009 — Present (5 months)

  Creative Solutions/Illustration & Design
  • Creative Direction and Client Branding Mgt
  • Sales-Side Visual Presentations and Ideations for Sign Programs
  • Hand Made & Decorative Airbrushing and Performance Stage Clothing
  • Music & Entertainment Viral Marketing & Street Team Support
  • Sign, Festival and Stage Project Management
  • Sculpture/Prototyping medium and large-scale and prop making
  • Interiors Specialist and ADA Lead
  • Architectural & Interior decorative embellishment support
  • Estimating/Purchasing
  
  Creative Software Package Lead/Instructor:
  FelxiSign
  ACAD
  Solidworks
  Corel Graphics Suite
  Adobe Creative Suite
  Macromedia Suite
  Maya
  Viz3d
  Lightwave

• Owner

  Kirkworx Productions

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Design industry)

  January 1992 — Present (17 years 7 months)

  A solo company where I can provide services and works in a variety of areas of expertise; including, but not limited to:
  
  Sign Design
  Logos & Branding
  All Print & Graphics
  Faux Finishing
  Specialized Finishing
  Murals and Fine art (2D & 3D)
  Multimedia Production
  Theatrical and Motion Picture Scenic, Design, Set Decoration and Props/FX and Production Design/Assistance
  Guitar and Vehicle Specialty Finishing
  Specialized Architectural Interiors and Finishing
  T-shirts and Textiles
  Merchandising and Intellectual Property/Trademarks
  
  All Computer Graphics software suites
  Autodesk
  Dassault
  Adobe/Macromedia
  Corel
  Quark
  Filemaker
  MS Office/Project
  All Sign Packages

• tweeter

  twitter

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Purchaser

  Paone Woodworking Corporation

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

  October 2005 — August 2007 (1 year 11 months)

  • Purchaser for an Architectural Woodworking and Interior Design Group and Cabinetmakers Union Mill
  • Supply Chain Mgt
  • ACAD Drafting
  • Prototypes & Mockups team member: plastics and dimensionsal specialist
  • Specialty and Faux finisher

• Creative Director/CPM

  Eastern Sign Tech

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  May 2005 — September 2005 (5 months)

  Hired as contract position: Critical Path Manager for a NJ & PA joint State project.
  Additional responsibilities included:
  • Creative Direction
  • Pre-engineering for porduction/ACAD
  • Design and Graphics Software instruction: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3; Adobe Creative Studio Suite; Gerber Signmaking S/W; AlphaCAM; ArtCarve
  • Lead Vinyl Signmaking for all signs decorated with both digital printed graphics and Computer Aided Sign making vinyl appliques
  • Help estimating w/job breakouts and takeoffs
  • Specializing in presentation graphics for high profile Architectural, property Management and Casino Companies, etc.

• Graphic Designer

  Service Select

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)

  January 2005 — March 2005 (3 months)

  Contract position as a Photo Mock-up artist in support of the presentation and project management departments.
  
  Service Select is Sign Services and Brand Management Company.

• Creative Director

  Compass Signs, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

  November 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 2 months)

  • Drove Sales side with presentaion and ideations/concept programs
  • Lead all graphics teams in productionof architectural and specialty signs
  • Brought in and developed extensive branding & graphics standards management department to cater to National Chain sign companies and National/Corporate retail accounts
  • Developed extensive Environmental Graphics & Wayfinding system that lead to winning of Hospital and Medical facilities contracts

• Project Manager/Sign Program Designer

  Allied Sign Systems

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 1996 — October 1999 (3 years 2 months)

  ...signage projects, preparing design intent drawings at any stage of the process and presentating strong understanding of fabrication materials, methods and techniques for clients.

• FREELANCE ART AND PROMOTIONS

  Tower Records

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Retail industry)

  1985 — 1996 (11 years)

• Head Designer & Airbrush Artist

  Custom Airbrush, Silkscreen & Embroidery

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  October 1991 — March 1993 (1 year 6 months)

  • Designed Artwork for Screenprinted T-shirts and Apparel
  • Airbrushed and managed the Retail Department
  • Instructed students in one-on-one Airbrushing lessons

• OWNER

  AIRWORX

  (Design industry)

  1985 — 1992 (7 years)

• ART DIRECTOR

  THE INTERCOLLEGIATE UNIVERSITY REPORTER

  (Design industry)

  1990 — 1992 (2 years)

• Publisher • Art Director • Paste-up/DTP • Illustrator

  Parkway Publishing Corporation

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

  1989 — 1992 (3 years)

  Collateral ad & audience minimagazines; Insurance Membership & Reporting Magazines; Directories and Restaurant Menu Guides...
  
  • Cover Illustrations
  • Typesetting
  • Ad Layouts
  • Editorial
  • Ad Sales
  • Interviews/Departments
  • Distribution
  • Management: Sales, Editorial Staff, Mechanical and Composition Staff

• Freelance Designer/Scenic Artist/PA/Set Dresser/Set Decorator

  MagicMan Productions

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  June 1989 — May 1992 (3 years)

  • Set Design
  • Finishing
  • Scenic Display/Set Dressing/Props
  • Vacu-forming
  • Deliveries
  • Production Assistant

• ARTIST

  AIRWORX/WMMR FREELANCE PROMOS

  (Design industry)

  1984 — 1991 (7 years)

• Freelance Merchandise Designer & Artist

  Great Southern Merchandise & Licensed Assets

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  January 1987 — November 1991 (4 years 11 months)

  Freelance designer for Concert tour merchandise and disney characters, warner bros. character merch... specialized one-offs, prototypes, comps and ltd edition small run production pieces for tie-ins and promos... specialized art/garments exclusively for talent/assets...

• colleague freelance

  Grupotoro

  (Design industry)

  1980 — 1990 (10 years)

• Freelance Merchandise Designer & Artist

  the brockum group

  (Entertainment industry)

  January 1983 — November 1989 (6 years 11 months)

  Rock Band Merchandise & Tshirt designs: Original Art & Illustration

• Freelance Merchandise Designer & Artist

  Bill Graham Presents

  (Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

  January 1984 — November 1989 (5 years 11 months)

  Specialty Tour Promo & Tie-in graphics and promo/giveaway art East Coast & West Coast...
  
  Winterland Merch License freelance designer and On Demand artist providing highly specialized art-oriented gifts and pieces for charitable & Cause oriented functions..
  
  Backstage/Hospitality artist for celebrities & performers: LiveAid 1985, Amnesty International 1986, Amnesty International 1988

• FREELANCE ARTIST

  JAMES & SONS COSTUMERS

  (Design industry)

  1984 — 1986 (2 years)

Kirk Dupuis’s Education

• University of San Diego High School

  CP , ART , 1976 — 2008

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  BFA/BBA , FINE ART/MKTG/PSY/PHI , 1980 — 1983

• Southeast Guilford Senior High

  AP , ART/ADVANCED MATH/ENGLISH/ELECTRONICS , 1978 — 1980

• The Governor's school of North Carolina

  Certificate , Fine Art , 1979 — 1979

• Kearny High School

  DIPLOMA , COLLEGE PREP , 1976 — 1977

• Holy Family

  Graduated , College Prep , 1974 — 1976

• FLETCHER ELEMENTARY

Additional Information

Kirk Dupuis’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Website
• myKIRKspace

Kirk Dupuis’s Interests:

People, Art, Media, Music, Design, How Things Work, Signs, Architecture/Engineering/Construction, Teaching, Conspiracy Theories, Astrophysics, Time Travel and Magick - and My Grandson and My Family...

Kirk Dupuis’s Groups:

SEGD, USSC, ISA, NRA, The Governor's School of North Carolina Alumni, EXECUNET, Philadelphia Area New Media Association (PANMA), Southeast Guilford High School, Airbrush Art

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•    Australia NetWork
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•    Hollywood Greenlight Group
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•    Die Hard Fans Of Led Zeppelin
•    Last.FM
•    Informed Ideas For Writers
•    Olive Garden Fan
•    Friends of California
•    Southeast Guilford High School
•    Manchester United Supporter
•    Vinyl Fans
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•    Airbrush Art
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•    SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival 2009

Kirk Dupuis’s Honors:

1ST PLACE Calendar Design, Electronic Illustration, and Execution - National Computer Graphics Association 1991

Won The Spencer-Love Competitive Academic Scholarship for Fine Art to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1980

Scholastic Art Awards - Honorable Mention - National Competition - Wash. DC 1980

Scholastic Art Awards - FIrst Place & Gold Key - Regional Competition - Greensboro, NC 1979

Honorable Mention - High Point Fine Arts Guild - High Point NC 1979

Featured in NBC Today Show story on Public Programs for children during the summer in the US: I presented Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. with a painting of the American Flag (A still life study) - the Governor's School of North Carolina - West (Winston Salem/Salem College) Summer 1979

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