Ray Craighead

Current

• Illustrator at Ray Craighead, Illustration (Self-employed)

Past

• Senior Illustrator at Fresh Take Marketing
• Senior Illustrator at Rapid Solutions Group
• Adjunct Faculty at MidAmerica Nazarene University

• Senior Illustrator at DST Output
• Senior Illustrator at Output Technologies Inc.
• Senior Illustrator at Output Technologies Design Group
• Graphic Designer at Allied-Signal

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Education

• MidAmerica Nazarene University
• Raymore-Peculiar High School

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Portfolio

Ray Craighead’s Summary

Fine artist and illustrator using traditional and digital media. Extensive experience doing conceptual and technical illustration, presentation graphics, magazine cover illustration, portraiture, children's illustrations, way-finding maps, data-driven graphics, etc.

Specialist in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Corel Painter, Microsoft PowerPoint, Daz Carrara (3D) and Google SketchUp. Also experienced in Adobe InDesign, DreamWeaver and Flash, Microsoft Excel and other graphic-related software.

College-level teaching experience in graphic design. Enjoy sharing traditional and digital art experience with interested students.

Ray Craighead’s Specialties:

Software expertise includes Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, Corel Painter, Google SketchUp, DAZ Carrara and others. Also produce variable data graphics for specialized VDP projects utilizing Microsoft Excel and Data-Driven Graphic features found in Adobe CS.

Ray Craighead’s Experience

• Illustrator

  Ray Craighead, Illustration (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)

  January 1977 — Present (32 years 11 months)

  My goal as an illustrator is to meet or exceed the expectations of my customers regardless of the scope of the project. These may include simple presentation graphics, complex 3D maps, conceptualizations, technical art, portraits, children's illustration, book cover design, or anything in between.
  Review my portfolio and contact me when you need the job done right and on time.

• Senior Illustrator

  Fresh Take Marketing

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2008 — February 2009 (7 months)

  Work closely with design staff to create artwork for concepts, presentations, print and multimedia projects. Also help train creative staff and troubleshoot issues related to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

• Senior Illustrator

  Rapid Solutions Group

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Printing industry)

  November 1990 — July 2008 (17 years 9 months)

  Staff illustrator working on a variety of projects for print, multimedia, WEB and VDP.

• Adjunct Faculty

  MidAmerica Nazarene University

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2000 — December 2007 (7 years 4 months)

  Participated in the early stages of building the graphic design program at MidAmerica Nazarene University, where I taught classing such as Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Digital Imaging and others . The program continues to grow and currently includes some 35-40 students.

• Senior Illustrator

  DST Output

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years )

• Senior Illustrator

  Output Technologies Inc.

  (Graphic Design industry)

  1993 — 2004 (11 years )

• Senior Illustrator

  Output Technologies Design Group

  (Graphic Design industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years )

• Graphic Designer

  Allied-Signal

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  May 1977 — November 1991 (14 years 7 months)

  I began working part-time at King Radio as a concept artist, rendering "faceplates" to help the engineers visualize the final product. This soon worked into a full-time job and my duties expanded to include graphic support for marketing and technical publications, as well as engineering. During my 10 years at King Radio (now Honeywell Bendix/King Avionics) I was exposed to many aspects of graphic design and illustration, including my introduction to computer graphics, which has become such an essential part of the graphic design field.

Ray Craighead’s Education

• MidAmerica Nazarene University

  1973 — 1977

• Raymore-Peculiar High School

  1970 — 1973

Additional Information

Ray Craighead’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Ray Craighead’s Interests:

family, drawing, painting, illustrating, bicycling, backpacking, singing

Ray Craighead’s Groups:

•    Adobe Software Users
•    Adobe Photoshop Group
•    Adobe Illustrator
•    CREATIVE DESIGN PROS

Ray Craighead’s Honors:

Who's Who in Colleges and Universities, 1977

Ray Craighead’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• expertise requests
• reference requests
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