Cynthia Reed Pro

Working as a freelance creative for diverse clients including:

Havas | Prose On Pixels: lead designer creating PowerPoint presentations for pitches and client brands; designing branded digital newsletters; comp art and animated infographics.

Quest Diagnostics: lead designer creating presentation templates for company-wide use, in-store and in-office videos, animated banner ads and infographics; event installations and videos; executive level presentations, and print brochures.

Union Savings Bank of Danbury: As art director and lead designer, I developed the branding for FutureTrack, their financial management service, which involved creating the name of the service, all print materials, web design, and digital marketing pieces; annual report design; digital marketing/animated banners; brochures.

Additional clients: Blue Buffalo; Accenture; Forrester Research; RightCapital; MA’AM Creative; Impact Engine; Confluence Partners; Combe Personal Care, Conair.

At this fast-paced media and marketing agency, I worked as an independent designer with the new business team during pitches, which included presentation design, print design and comp art. My work for Mindshare also included numerous collaterals: wall wraps, booklets, and novelty pieces.

As senior designer in the creative services department of the retirement solutions division of Transamerica, my work included numerous print and online pieces such as booklets, brochures, ads, newsletters, email, web banners, and PowerPoint presentations. I developed promotional concepts for new and existing retirement plan clients and worked with Transamerica Investments in Denver, Colorado, designing the sales and informational materials for the Advanced Markets Group.

During this period my projects included print and presentation design, and digital illustration/comp art for various clients including:

• McCann-Erickson, Ogilvy Healthworld, Grey Worldwide: presentation design including brand templates and animated infrographics; comp art.

• DecisonQuest: PowerPoint presentations and litigation graphics including Flash and AE animation

• Gammon Ragonesi Associates: food and beverage marketing materials, packaging concepts, concept art

• Newmark Grubb Knight Frank: presentation design for this national commercial real estate advisory firm

• Area 23 (FCB Health Network): medical education presentations with animated infographics

• HarperCollins Publishing: catalogs, sell-sheets, promotional pieces