Melanie Warner

Current

• Creative Director at Hotiron Creative

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Connections

293 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• Hotiron Creative
• AIGA portfolio

Melanie Warner’s Summary

Design a stronger brand.

Melanie Warner has completed hundreds of dynamic, broad-reaching projects for a variety of industries across 18 different states. Her diverse experience, fresh ideas and forward thinking provide a well-rounded design resource and give clients the confidence to succeed.

PROFESSIONAL GOAL
To offer creative, targeted, well-executed graphic design to innovative companies, and transform them into industry leaders.

Melanie Warner’s Specialties:

identity, print, interactive and environmental design
• brand consulting and strategy
• concept development
• typography, color theory and layout
• mastery of Adobe applications, Mac platform
• expert vector illustration and photo correction
• thorough execution, print production and project management

Melanie Warner’s Experience

• Creative Director

  Hotiron Creative

  (Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)

  June 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)

  Hotiron Creative provides complete brand design to leading innovators of vertical markets. This firm is well-suited for companies that require strong brand awareness to succeed but have limited exposure to the end consumer.
  
  • identity: logos, business cards, taglines, brand guidelines
  • print: stationery, brochures, publications, direct mail, advertising
  • interactive: GUI, information architecture, web design and development
  
  PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
  Autonomic Controls • NuVo Technologies • Kodak • Canon • Epson • Procter & Gamble • Chiquita • MeadWestvaco • Cincinnati Bell • Ogio • Cystic Fibrosis Foundation • Ogilvy & Mather • Dentsu America • HOW Magazine • Writer’s Digest

Additional Information

Melanie Warner’s Websites:

• Hotiron Creative
• AIGA portfolio

Melanie Warner’s Interests:

Photography, illustration, typography, printing, paper, music, fashion, art, furniture, architecture, psychology, marketing, business, computers, technology, writing, travel, hiking, camping, cooking and dining.

Melanie Warner’s Groups:

Member of AIGA, The Professional Association for Graphic Design

Advocate for the National Endowment for the Arts, Americans for the Arts, Ohio Citizens for the Arts, and donor to National Public Radio

•    eOffice
•    CPG Branding and Marketing Forum
•    Art & Design
•    AIGA Cincinnati
•    AIGA | the professional association for design
•    Consumer Electronics Leadership Marketing Forum
•    Graphic Design
•    Graphic Design Professional Group
•    Art&Design Lounge Club
•    CE Channel Pros
•    Consumer Electronics
•    Media Retail
•    Women in Photography
•    Electronics Sales and Marketing 2.0
•    Custom Electronics & Audio/ Video Professionals
•    Custom Electronics / Home Theater / Audio / Video

Melanie Warner’s Honors:

2009 Guest lecture for NYU post-graduate branding/positioning course

2009 Olive logo featured on Logo Revue: http://www.logorevue.sk/portal

2009 AIGA Roundtable participant discussing the future of AIGA

2008 CE Pro Gold CHIP Award for Mirage Media Control System by Autonomic (interface design)

2008 "The Business of the Card" presentation to group of entrepreneurs

2008 AIGA Portfolio reviewer at Art Academy of Cincinnati

2007 AIGA Design Origination Award for Hotiron Creative logo

2007 Neenah PaperWorks GOLD Award for Storybook Homes identity system

2007 IPPY Book Award for "A Financial Minute" by Jenifer Madson (cover and interior design)

2007 "DIY Business Cards" article published by CincyChic: http://www.cincychic.com/content/view/269/10100

Melanie Warner’s Contact Settings

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