Dawne Lundahl

Corporate Marketing Department
Design through final production. Projects include: marketing materials for new product development, trade shows, advertising, packaging, sell sheets, graphics for e-mail blasts, website graphics and educational books

Design and production for children's books, interactive books and packaging design for: Disney, Sesame Street, Fisher Price, Marvel, Peanuts and Nickelodeon and PiKids Brands

Full-time contract position. Design and production for marketing materials, trade shows, and updating packaging for the IBG group

National Safety Council, Don Johnston & Associates, Ecoco, Inc, Food Business Solutions, The Halloween Spectacle, Chicago Classic Confections, Haimark, LTD, Fontana Spa, TrackForm

Corporate Marketing Department Managed the in-house design studio providing the creative vision and counsel to senior management on creative strategy. Responsible for maintaining company's brand across B2B, B2C, on-line, and print in support of corporate marketing materials. Projects include: maintaining and adding articles and graphics to company website, e-mail blasts, designing corporate brochures, posters, training manuals, new business pitches and IPC Muscular Dystrophy fund raiser

Producers of non-fiction programing for television and education | Conceptual development, design and art direction through final production for marketing materials for television programs and a collection of 300 DVD programs with interactive lesson plans helping teachers engage students in areas of science, technology, engineering, history, English and mathematics. Projects included: title treatments for television programs, marketing brochures, DVD packaging design, program catalogs and sell sheets, front end web site design working with developer, and trade shows graphics Unequivocally dedicated with a passion for design. Pursuing a key role in an organization that values and rewards my creativity. T o significantly contribute to the success of an organization.

Designed and developed innovative powerful solutions incorporating art direction in the process of telling a story though text and imagery for covers and interior pages for student and teacher editions K-12 and higher education for leading publishers. Collaborated with editors and design director through out creative process. Designed and developed prototypes for new projects. Managed illustrators, freelance designers and photo researchers. Retouching and pre press through final production Accounts: Benchmark Education, McGraw Hill-Glencoe, McGraw Hill-Higher Education, Scholastic, Scott Foresman, Voyager Expanded

Freelance design and art direction services working off and on site for clients. Created powerful solutions in a competitive marketplace for advertising campaigns, P.O.P., packaging design, brochures, direct mail and B2B from client contact, briefing, brainstorming, to presentation of concepts to clients. Managed and hired freelance designers, art directors, writers, production, illustrators, photographers, food stylists, prop stylists and printers. Art direction on photo shoots and participated in clients' new business pitches Accounts: Gordon Hanrahan Advertising, Rapp Collins Marcoa, Vandenberg Foods, University of Illinois, Southwest Expressions, Lasik Choice, Turtle Moon, Female Health Company, Adrienne Weiss Corporation, Olson Communications, Sony Electronics OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE: INDEPENDENT AND IN-HOUSE ASSIGNMENTS Concept, art direction through final production on advertising campaigns and televisions commercials. Worked with a copywriter team, collaborated with account executives and creative directors. Art direction on photo and television shoots on location and in studio, hiring photographers, casting models, working with make up artists, prop stylists and retouchers