Hello! As a Creative Director and small business Owner, I usually refer to myself as a Graphic Design Freelancer … I take the projects you need help with, or likely do not have time for, and we not only get them done, we create something you love. If you need a project wrangled, your ideas to take shape, and to achieve what you deemed impossible … I am ready to tackle it for you.
Prior to owning my design business, I worked for a non-profit educational association over a decade and a half. I led a graphics team, strategized with marketing, publishing, sales, production, and executive staff. We evolved the brands for a Principal's Association which included The National Honor Society and National Association of Student Councils; managed millions in print production and a high-volume of projects. We created the most dynamic award-winning materials to enhance the brand and support the members.
When you hire me, as clients listed below, you will not only find quick solutions for your designs, projects, books, conferences, ads, logos, brands, magazines … I ensure that the finished product is as you need it; whether published on-demand or printed, or released digitally.
CLIENTS A–Z
Small to Large Business, Agency, Association:
ASBO: Association of School Business Officials International
ASCRS: American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
JCRS: Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Better World Strategies
BHI: Better Hearing Institute
BlueTree Digital Agency
Country's Best Log Homes,
Clarion Management Resources:
AWLP: Alliance for Work-Life Progress
BPW: Business & Professional Women's Foundation
ERA/EDPM Roofing Association
NSEE: National Society for Experiential Education, and Teamsters)
EurekaFacts LLC
Eyedea Studio,
John Callaghan Novels: The T.O.A.D.S., The Virgin of the Adirondacks, and The Architecture of Dreams & Other Stories (Amazon Print-On-Demand Books)
Jose's Tree Service
JZ Bounce
Legacy Video Service
Lisa Speet Photography
Military Heritage Magazine
NAELA: National Academy of Elder Law
NCRA: National Court Reporters Association
NEH: Natural Element Homes
NonprofitCoach
Parker Interiors
PMA: Property Management Association
Raheen Law Group
RarefiedAir Crafts
Seneff Heating & Air
SHRM: Society for Human Resource Management
Sovereign Media: Sci-Fi Entertainment Magazine/Sci-Fi Channel
Sci-Fi Universe, Star Trek Special Issue/Guest Art Director
Strive3 Agency
Silver Beacon Marketing
School Board Candidate Anthony Stacy Promotionals
2 For Seder
Water Street Design Agency (Client: Lowe's Hardware)
Young America's Foundation
WORK HISTORY
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Associate Director Graphic Services (1996–2014) NASSP
(National Association of Secondary School Principals);
Led Graphics & Production team; Hired as a Graphic Designer. -
Graphic Designer Fraser Wallace Advertising Agency (1996)
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Advertising Designer The Breeze, JMU College Newspaper (1995)
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Advertising Specialist Weider History Group (1990–1994);
(Originally Empire Press Magazines, then Cowles History Group).
Hired as an Advertising Assistant, promoted to Production Planner,
then Advertising Specialist.
SKILLS
Logo Design, Brand, Corporate Identity, Print Design: Brochures, Postcards, Signage, Adsl Publication Newsletters, Magazines, Presentation Materials, Online Brand, Web Template Design, Video, Animation
SOFTWARE
Design: Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, Premiere Pro - Video; Quark, Adobe Dimensions, MiniCad, Model Pro, Renderman, Artist XP-Pen
Project Management: Basecamp, FastTrack, Toggl Time, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Web: Wix.com & Wordpress.com, beginner Joomla
Music: GarageBand
FOR FUN
My brands are Little Mouse and Midnight Mustard:
Midnight Mustard researches medical journals & shares HEALTH TIPS
https://tapplebella.wixsite.com/oils
Little Mouse at WritersCafe shares short stories and WRITING:
http://www.writerscafe.org/littlemouse
PHOTOGRAPHY at
http://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/LittleMouse3
I submitted a few photos for purchase to see the internal sales process of iStock photos; usually the most cost-effective place to purchase art and photos for your projects, if not art I develop for you.
Little Mouse explores, creates, and releases original MUSIC:
https://tapplebella.wixsite.com/littlemouse
I set up a home music studio with a digital piano and a simple MIDI connection, USB microphone, and layered all music tracks, voice and effects, produced the CD: Find Your Way (by Little Mouse), designed, burned and printed the CD sent to CDBaby for digital distribution and released to various digital suppliers iTunes/Spotify.
My music can be found various places, some is monetized, but mostly free:
https://open.spotify.com/artist
Little Mouse
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/littlemouse
Myspace music: (original launch) http://www.myspace.com/littlemouse3
Track 8 contains voice clips from salvaged cassette tape media (sent by my father Gary during a wartime era), converted to MP3, see the song: "when I was six"; track 8.
My song "Plant the Trees" is now played in music classes as "Name that mystery singer!". It is easy to be famous when you are known as 'so and so's' "Mom". ... My music production was an exercise to show that all things are possible. Follow your passion, or let me help you create it!
