Accomplished art director and designer for the children’s market. History of creating successful, award-winning books for iconic publishers.
My love of art and design flourished from an early age. With a background in painting and drawing, a fondness for pattern, bright color and playful imaginations, I naturally found my way to designing and art directing books for children. Now, as a freelance designer and former Senior Children’s Designer at Chronicle Books, I have over twenty years of experience in publishing.
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Working with clients like Disney, James Patterson Books (Little, Brown), Scholastic, Sterling, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Peaceable Kingdom, and Girl Scouts of America, I art direct and design unique covers and interiors, activity books, book-plus, and gift projects. My skills also include creating marketing collateral, collaborating with licensors, building schedules, generating budgets, overseeing vendors, manipulating images, color correcting, and typesetting.
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I look forward to working with you to bring your project to life!
Provide complete art direction, design, and production for clients including Chronicle Books, Jimmy Patterson Books (Little, Brown), Disney, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastic, Sterling Publishing, Peaceable Kingdom, and Girl Scouts of America. Consistently acknowledged for creating and delivering high-quality books, packaging, ads, and marketing materials on schedule and budget.
Designed and managed complex book and non-book projects from concept through completion, proofing, and color correction in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. Extensive art direction of illustrators, photographers, and outside designers. Generated new project ideas while continually focusing on providing
unique and innovative design solutions. Spearheaded technology evaluation and support efforts for the department.
Designed and coordinated marketing collateral while assisting with production on specialty catalogs. Supported creative department by providing technical support to production staff.
Rendered temporary design and production services for staffing agency.
Directly responsible for designing and managing projects including pricing, photo manipulation, layout, typesetting, and creation of print-ready electronic files.
Apple, Sam, Robine, Julie
Disney Book Group, Disney Storybook Art Team
Florian, Douglas
MacPhail Knight, Joan, Sweet, Melissa
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Hi! I'm an award-winning freelance illustrator from Poland. Specialized in children's publishing with unique design style. Let’s talk!
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