Donald McGowan

Presto Digital Design Studio is a professional imaging and creative studio, providing Branding, Digital Technical Illustration, Retouching and Production services for the Advertising, Marketing, Food and Beverage, Toy, Beauty, Sports, Editorial, Entertainment and CPG Industries.

Produce and create monthly mini catalogs, newsletters, magazine ads for 12 publications, new logos for new product lines, artwork for model vehicles, railroad cars, and engines, show labels and signs, web animated ads, booklets, instructional manuals, UPCs and package design for clamshell, bubble packaging and box packaging. Create different scale dioramas for photography. Maintain scenery and electronics for show layouts to work properly and travel to shows around the country to meet customers and answer any product questions to the public.

Managed classroom environment for 44 students to ensure creation of a professional portfolio for each student and mastery of the following skills: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, traditional paste-up, business/social skills, digital/traditional photography, and sign making. Maintained file management of students, lesson plans, confidential information, and invoices. Responsible for preparing the classroom’s annual budget and maintaining inventory control. Personally kept up to date with today’s Commercial Art/Advertising Design technology and was involved in numerous program improvement initiatives including integrating new equipment and technology as well as ensuring that lesson plans were up to date.

Designed architecture business maps, web icons, and presentations for management consultants. Responsibilities included travel to clients in New York Tri-State Area as a graphic designer/system administrator for Windows NT. Scheduled reservations at the job site for consultants for miscellaneous travel accommodations and transportation. Clients included Pitney Bowes and AIG.

- Myron Manufacturing, Maywood NJ
• Illustrated and designed stylish new pens for retail distributors and day-timer covers in Adobe Illustrator.
- Catalyst Communications, South Plainfield, NJ
• Edited and recreated MS PowerPoint slide presentations, pre-flighting files to the printer, and reproduced comprehensives to final pieces for Pharmaceutical Advertising.
- Vision Graphics, Morristown/Cedar Knolls, NJ
• Advertising design studio functions with creating point of purchase and point of sale material, revisions, and pre-flighting files to printer.
- Krell Advertising, Flemington, NJ
• Performed advertising design studio functions as well as creative input into logo design for the company Pharmanet.

Phoenix Displays, Deptford, NJ 5/99–8/99
Designed, rendered, mocked up 3-D displays, and produced Point of Purchase material for products for companies McNeil, Schering Plough, The Northwest Company, Team Mouse, and Dr. Scholl's.

Riss Design Group, Norwalk, CT 3/97
Photo retouched and desktop production for a sailing catalog.

Created print media artwork for direct mail, POS material, pole toppers, shelf strips, combo cards, tear pads, and other related materials for Fortune 100 companies like Nabisco and Kraft. Cleaned up, color corrected, photo retouched high-resolution photos and artwork, and responisible for pre-flighted files to the client or printer.

Ernst & Young/ Union Carbide, Danbury, CT
Created Intra-Net web artwork, workflow charts, electronic banners and subtitles for a 50,000 page web site.