Rachel Nabors

Current

• Graphic Designer at BBH Media
• Web designer, specifically front-end designer, and reformed cartoonist at selfemployed (Self-employed)

Past

• Web Designer at Atlantic BT
• Comic Artist at gURL.com at NBC Universal

Recommended

2 people have recommended Rachel

Connections

46 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Company
• My Comics
• My Portfolio

Rachel Nabors’s Summary

I am a front-end designer with a knack for flawlessly slicing Photoshop design files into clean, structured code. Since the beginning of my six-year career, I've embraced web standards and semantics. I've maintained and improved legacy systems, keeping design consistent while transitioning code toward improved standards. I excel at balancing the nuanced details of accessibility and usability with the perfect replication of a design across browsers. I have a flair for community building and social media implementation but am also comfortable buckling down to knock out rote production work.

I also happen to be an award winning web cartoonist.

Rachel Nabors’s Specialties:

CSS, semantic XHTML, Wordpress, Drupal, front end design, web design, women's comics and manga

Rachel Nabors’s Experience

• Graphic Designer

  BBH Media

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  In-house graphic/front end designer for a Raleigh marketing and advertising company that manages large web properties and many advertiser.

• Web designer, specifically front-end designer, and reformed cartoonist

  selfemployed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  March 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

  I specialize in overhauling old, cranky, table-based sites and turning them into lean, mean code with my mad CSS skills. I love Wordpress and Drupal almost as much as I love the content-out site creation process.
  
  I also have enjoy playing with social networking sites (like this one!).
  
  I used to make comics for the teen girls' site gURL.com. Said comics won me legions of fan girls and even an award. I still make some on the side, but it's for pleasure, not profit now.

• Web Designer

  Atlantic BT

  (Internet industry)

  April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

  Making and editing web sites for mid-sized to large companies.

• Comic Artist at gURL.com

  NBC Universal

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; GE; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2002 — March 2008 (5 years 11 months)

  I make comics for teenage girls. I've been weekly since November, 2006, having been monthly before that. I am responsible for writing, drawing, and preparing the comics for web deployment as well as promoting them through a large MySpace and blog network.

Additional Information

Rachel Nabors’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Comics
• My Portfolio

Rachel Nabors’s Interests:

feedback, social networks, second life, comics, manga, publishing, Egyptology, mythology, birds

Rachel Nabors’s Groups:

Women's Work, Sequential Tart, Teen Bit, Friends of Lulu

•    Comic Book Creators
•    iVillage - Old and New School
•    Connected Women
•    KERNSPIRACY: A Place for Designers to Share Secrets

Rachel Nabors’s Honors:

2003: finalist in the Seventeen sponsored CHANEL "Colour of the Year" Contest
2007: won Friends of Lulu's prestigious Kim Yale Award for Best New Female Talent

Rachel Nabors’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch