Lyubov Strauss's Page

Title:

Photographer/Graphic designer/Owner

Company Website:

http://www.lyubovstrauss.com

Media Type:

Publishing

Media Realm:

Business Media, Creative Agency

Home Region:

Mid West

I'm Looking For:

Networking, Business Partners, Jobs

Professional Background: (Resume)

LYUBOV STRAUSS
graphic designer | art director | photographer
website: www.lyubovstrauss.com
email: lyubovS8@sbcglobal.net
C: 314-606-8249

QUALIFICATION SUMMARY: 20 years experience in International Media and Photography ( Editorial, Commercial, and Advertising photography).More than 7 years of diverse, hands-on design
experience including experience in magazine publishing, marketing, and advertising.
Adaptable, organized, result and detail-oriented individual with excellent work ethic plus strong time management and interpersonal skills. Ability to create designs, concepts, and sample layouts based on knowledge of layout principles and aesthetic design concepts. Initiate unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. A team player also capable of working independently with minimal direction. Experienced Graphic Designer and Artist with strong background in creating magazines, brochures, flyers, banners, ads, direct mail campaign, catalogs.
Extensive experience using Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, InDesign.

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE:
Software: Macintosh and Windows Operating Systems. Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 InDesign, Adobe Acrobat , QuarkXpress, ImageReady, DreamWeaver MX, Microsoft Word,
PowerPoint, Excel.

PORTFOLIO: www.lyubovstrauss.com

2008 - present FREELANCE
Position: Freelance Graphic Designer, Art Director and Photographer
Responsibilities: Responsible for coordinating and producing of a variety of graphics products including ads, newsletters, brochures, exhibit displays.
Provided magazine photography, cooperate event and private party photography, conference and lecture/speaker photography.

2008 (Feb - July) TRAVELHOST OF GREATER ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE
Position: Advertising Sales Executive, Owner, Associate Publisher, Distribution
Manager, Art Director and Graphic Designer
Responsibilities: Responsible for the key areas of Advertising Sales, Distribution, Production, Promotion and Finance. Controls all business aspects of the magazine.
Represented #1 American Travel Magazine. Developed the concept and prepared for print bi-monthly, 48 pages magazine. Responsible for the magazine design and layout, and advertisements design.

2005 – 2008 FREELANCE
Position: Freelance Graphic Designer, Art Director and Photographer
Responsibilities: Layout and put together for print bi-monthly magazine TRAVELHOST of Greater St. Louis Magazine. Create advertisement design for TRAVELHOST Magazine. Specialized on Print and web design using InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator
and DreamWeaver. Responsible for conceptualizing and creating promotional pieces as brochures, catalog, flyers, banners, magazine ads and direct mail campaign. Creative problem solving in all aspects of project development from conceptual to final production. Provided digital photography for publications and advertisements. Specialize
in the magazine design and layout, and advertisements design. Photojournalism, magazine photography, cooperate event and private party photography, conference and lecture/speaker photography.

2004 – 2005 OPTIMA GRAPHICS COMPANY
Position: Graphic Designer
Responsibilities: Responsible for conceptual design and production of all promotion and advertising materials: brochures, catalog, e-mail campaign, graphics demos for advertising and marketing department. Used ImageReady, PhotoShop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress .Provided digital photography for publications and advertisements.

2004 MERAMEC COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Position: Tutor
Responsibilities: Taught graphic design programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator,
QuarkXpress and InDesign.

2003 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
Position: Graphic Designer
Responsibilities: Color corrected, retouched and prepared 1,600 digital images using Photoshop.

1998 GRAPHIC LINKS
Position: Scanner and Photoshop Artist
Responsibilities: Scanned transparencies and prints on a drum scanner. Performed color corrections, image manipulations, and digital retouches using Photoshop.

1997 NATALIE MAGAZINE
Position: Graphic Designer and Photoshop Artist
Responsibilities: Responsible for digital retouching, color correction, image manipulation and editing. Layout images and text on the page, as well as prepared monthly glamour magazine for print.

1988 - 2003
Freelance Photographer for St. Louis Jewish Light newspaper, St. Louis Suburban Journal
Photo-Assistant and Sales Representative for Steve Smith Studio commercial photography studio.
Picture editor - Mirror of the weekly American/Ukrainian Newspaper.
Photographer - European (including Hungarian, German, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian)
newspapers and magazines including: Der Spiegel, Freedom Forum and others.
EDUCATION:
Certificate of Proficiency in Digital Imaging and Graphic Design, Meramec Community
College.
Bachelor in Communication, Photography and Journalism, T. Shevchenko University,
Kiev, Ukraine.

Personal Interests

Photography, Ancient culture and history, Art, Travel, Dancing

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