Timothy Banks

Current

Owner/Director at Banks Creative
Owner/Illustrator at Timothy Banks Illustration

Past

Art Director at DeepBlue
Graphic Designer at Pritchett & Hull
Professor at American Intercontinental University

Concept Artist at Wild Hair Studios
Staff Illustrator at Bob Jones University Press

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Education

Savannah College of Art and Design
Bob Jones University

Connections

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Industry

Design

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Timothy Banks’s Summary

Professional designer equipped to handle high-end design and creative management. Complete knowledge of the programs necessary to visually communicate: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign and even Quark. Interactive designer who can handle front end design and CSS/Java/XHTML code architecture. No problem working in a Mac or PC environment. Accomplished illustrator able to provide an extra level of service for a design or layout.

Timothy Banks’s Specialties:

Design, Corporate Identity, Layout, Branding, Web, Marketing Design, Expert Vector Skills, Adobe CS4 Expert, Quark Warrior, Digital Illustrator, Traditional Illustrator (Acrylic, Pen and Ink, Watercolor, Sketch).

Timothy Banks’s Experience

Owner/Director

Banks Creative

(Graphic Design industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Specializing in layout, identity and web. Recent clients include Discovery Girls and Outreach magazines, respectively. Expert knowledge and application of CS3, Quark and Flash. Able to handle print orders and communication.
Owner/Illustrator

Timothy Banks Illustration

(Publishing industry)

July 1997 — Present (12 years 5 months)

Specializing in both traditional and digital illustration. Style lends itself to juvenile and editorial markets. Most recently illustrated a book for Caribou Coffee.
Art Director

DeepBlue

(Graphic Design industry)

September 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Front-end page design, CSS, XHTML, Javascript builds. Clients include Toyota, Miramax and the US Court System.
Graphic Designer

Pritchett & Hull

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

May 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 5 months)

Incorporation of design, illustration and layout for printed materials which focus primarily on patient education. Responsibility to handle coporate identity and branding for the creation of direct marketing materials for print and web. Project manager overseeing all aspects of the printing cycle from layout to print proofing. Projects have included illustrating and designing a comic book for children with Type 1 diabetes, a quarterly 40+ page catalog, and creative management of annual advertising campaign for Health Care Education Week. Recently awarded Communicator's Award of Distinction.
Professor

American Intercontinental University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

July 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Art and design instruction for students focused on a career in graphic arts. Position required classroom management and curriculum creation. Deep understanding was required for specific software presented to students such as Quark, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. Strong presentation skills and the ability to be flexible with subject material (given new class subjects to develop each quarter). Subjects include Graphic Design/Layout, Illustration, Digital Illustration and Color Theory.
Concept Artist

Wild Hair Studios

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

May 2003 — August 2003 (4 months)

Provided conceptual work involving characters and settings for story ideas. Created traditional background paintings for animated shorts featured on Cartoon Network Latin America.
Staff Illustrator

Bob Jones University Press

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

May 1997 — August 2000 (3 years 4 months)

Illustration and management of deadlines for projects ranging from literature books to marketing advertisements. Worked traditionally and digitally to produce educationally defining images. Position required strong organization skills as well as a reliance on independent responsibility to complete the work.

Timothy Banks’s Education

Savannah College of Art and Design

M.F.A. , Illustration , 2000 — 2002

Interned with Peter deSéve (Disney and Blue Sky concept artist. New Yorker cover artist) and Dan Adel (Illustrations have appeared on the cover of Time, Newsweek and Entertainment magazines) in New York. Received Illustration Achievement Award for being top illustration student in the Illustration Master's Program for 2002. Work chosen to illustrate poster for the school's annual Sidewalk Arts Festival. Work chosen to illustrate Bayou Boys, children's book written by school president, Paula Wallace. Work selected to be presented in the school's first major specific gallery showing. Selected to illustrate the Top Secret Files of Mother Goose, a story developed by the school's publishing imprint, the Design Press, and published by Whitecap Books. Portfolio Scholarship awarded by Illustration faculty based solely on portfolio's achievement and skill level. Additional scholarship awarded for portfolio submission competition.
Bob Jones University

B.A. , 2D Studio Art , 1996 — 2000

Chosen as a Freshman to work as staff illustrator at the university's press. Illustrated two well-received children's books while enrolled as full-time student. Work chosen as finalist for the universities prestigous Founder's Award.

Activities and Societies:

Beta Gamma Delta