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Deborah van Rooyen/DVRDESIGN DVRDESIGN COMMUNICATIONS 2006PRESENT 10+ years as Design Director/Creative Director Award-winning international and national design and advertising portfolio Specializing in new image design, book cover design, special event and trade show designs, publications, recruitment, advertising, broadcasting, branding, interactive media, web banners, web-sites, photo art direction, new business, corporate identification/logo design, marketing campaigns Strong global marketing support experience Accounts include: publishing, educational, fashion, retail, biotech, venture capital, healthcare, financial, entertainment, (Fortune 500 clients) Published author (HarperCollins/Reganbooks 2002, Memoir, Trade) (Yad Vashem Publications 2007, Israel, Memoir) Flexible, negotiable, and willing to consider relocation for right position Actively seeking new and dynamic challenge anywhere in the world Presently: GRAPHIC DESIGN/ADVERTISING COMMUNICATIONS DVRDESIGN.COM Computer Skills Mac-supported CS2/3, Quark 7.02, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Web Design Direction, PowerPoint, Word Studio Capabilities Successful partnering with clients to create, budget, art direct, design and produce innovative award-winning advertising campaigns, graphic design materials, book series and covers. Includes: book cover design, series branding, new image design, interactive design, special events promotions, recruitment, community education materials, trade show booths, conferences, newsletters, annual reports, vision brochures, fundraising/development materials, art auctions, exhibit graphics, special events graphics and related print materials for wide range of regional, national and international clients. Strong experience in fresh positioning and/or re-positioning of brand within guidelines of strategic plan. Proven excellence in driving client presentations and landing new business with creative and account team interactive web producer (visit latest website portfolio samples): www.noav.org www.jsb-partners.com Client base includes: Publishing, Pharma, Biotech, Retail, Education, NonProfits, High Tech, Fashion, Small Business, Start-ups, Venture Capital 2005-2006 DESIGN DIRECTOR Thomson Course Technology, Boston, MA. Department management, designing marketing materials and book design director for Thomson Higher Learning Achievements: Guided department through acquisition, re-branding and restructuring Re-imaged brand and creative output of sales marketing materials, book covers and book interiors Linked Editorial, Marketing and Creative into global management unit Delivered innovative design and advertising campaigns for trade shows, book titles, series, and sales presentations Directed creative staff + plus interns through reorganization Award winner of Cover Design Revealed Series. 1998-2005 DESIGN CONSULTANT Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan; Jordan www.NooralHusseinFoundation.org www.JordanRiver.jo King Hussein Foundation, International, Noor Hussein Foundation Jordan River Design Foundation; Amman, JORDAN Including King Hussein Foundation, International: Initiated, organized, created and produced rural Jordanian artisans collective exhibition/fundraising event in Martha's Vineyard 2003 under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Noor al Hussein. 1998-2002 Showroom designer and exhibit and fundraising planner for non-profit women in development artisans' cooperatives in AMMAN, JORDAN under the auspices of the Jordan River Foundation, and Noor al Hussein Foundations JRF FOUNDATION, AMMAN, JORDAN. New product and graphics and textile design adviser for womens artisan's cooperatives under the Chairmanship of Her Majesty Queen Rania al Abdullah. Includes work with Bani Hameda rug weaving cooperative; Wadi Rayan basketry; Jordan River Design Textiles; Dana Nature Reserves, Royal Society for Protection of Nature Initiated Israeli/Jordanian business, exhibitions, and sales despite negative political climate Sourced new artisans within Hashemite Kingdom and Israel, integrated Wadi Rayan business into JRD Foundation portfolio Worked on joint USAID and NGO projects in micro-credit funding Brought products to export market in Europe and US 7 years assisting in new artisans development: Jan Kassay, Photographer, Jordan; Ghassan Abu Laban, fine art painter, Jordan; Safi Bedouin tribal craftswomen Dead Sea, Shimmon and Tammar, Israel & NY. 1984-1998 VP, DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE DESIGN & ADVERTISING OMNICOM/DIVERSIFIED AGENCY SERVICES DDB Needham Worldwide; BHA Design Group Corporate Headquarters: New York and Boston; 14 years of Design Direction and Management of Design Services for 22 agency offices nationwide. Created award winning recruitment programs, advertising, image branding for Fortune 500 companies nationwide and in Europe. Corporate Design Director of award winning advertising and graphic communications agency with clients in high tech, biotech, retail, healthcare, entertainment, and business to business working with Aramark, Sears, Kodak, Bain & Company, Yale New Haven Hospital, Monsanto, Arthur D. Little, Genzyme Corporation, Serono Laboratories, BASF, Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General, and other leading corporations ACHIEVEMENTS Built BHA Design Group from 0 base in 1986 into a multi-million dollar, highly profitable resource for national and international Fortune 500 clients in national advertising design, collateral materials, trades shows, web, recruitment and retention programs, corporate identification programs, annual reports, communication programs, training & development, and new image positioning Created new business resource for national agency offices optimizing success of new business pitches Introduced worldwide web capabilities for marketing products in early stages of Internet development. Instrumental in successful retention and acquisition of national and international new business AWARDS: (Partial list) NY Art Director's Awards, Hatch Awards, Strathmore Paper Awards, EMI Awards, Design Show Awards, Pyramid Awards, International Competitions Previous Agency Experience: Arnold & Company Blouin & Company Giardini Russell Freelance photographer and writer on location in S. E. Asia, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, Jordan, Israel. BOOK PUBLICATIONS/AUTHOR: Yad Vashem Publications, ISRAEL, 2007: Yonah al Chut Til, nonfiction memoir, (in Hebrew) www.yadvashem.org http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,l-3432609,00.html HarperCollins/ReganBooks 2002: Boat Bastard, A Love/Hate Story (Memoir) www.boatbastard.com Lochemei HaGataot, Israel, 1987: My Grandfather's Brother's Son PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS: Graphis Annual Reports, Communication Arts Design Annuals, Print Magazine Annuals, Personnel Journal, The Wall Street Journal, AdWeek, Ad Age, Flash Magazine, The Boston Globe, People Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Martha's Vineyard Times, Vineyard Style Magazine, The Vineyard Gazette EDUCATION: Massachusetts College of Art, MS.ED. American College in Jerusalem, Israel, BA The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL, BA LANGUAGES: English, French, Hebrew, Dutch SKILLS: Computer: Quark Xpress - Expert, Currently used Computer: CS2 - Intermediate, Currently used Computer: Indesign - Beginner, Currently used Computer: Photoshop - Expert, Currently used Computer: Illustrator - Intermediate, Currently used Project Management - Expert, Currently used Proposal/RFP writing - Expert, Currently used Vendor/Cost estimating - Expert, Currently used Art Directing Photoshoots - Expert, Currently used New Business Presentations - Expert, Currently used International Negotiations with Vendors - Expert, Currently used Mentor relationships - Intermediate, Currently used Copywriting, Headlines, Concept Development - Expert, Currently used Language Skills: English - Intermediate, Currently used Language Skills: French - Intermediate, Currently used Language Skills: Hebrew Language Skills: Dutch, Afrikaans - Conversation Language Skills: Arabic - Conversation References will be supplied upon request |
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