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Shane Luitjens
34, Male
New York City
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Profile Information
- Title:
- US Art Director
- Company:
- INK Publishing
- Company Website:
- http://www.ink-publishing.com
- Media Type:
- Publishing
- Media Realm:
- Consumer Media, City & Regional
- Home Region:
- New England
- Past Companies & Brands
- Monster.com, HX Media, Freedom Drug, Priority Healthcare, drugstore.com, Create Magazine, Go magazine, Skybus, ATA Airways Sights, MyMIDWEST
- I'm Looking For:
- Friends, Networking, Inspiration
- Professional Background: (Resume)
- US Art Director, INK Publishing
Directing the design of four US inflight magazines (average circulation: 1.5 million readers) represented by international custom publishing company. Managing staff including assistant, junior designers and interns. Designed and directed three complete launches plus one redesign. Leading and planning original celebrity
and editorial photography. Research and edit of stock photography. 2007 Create Awards Best of Category (Editorial - Single Page), Gold (Editorial); 2007 Davey Awards Gold (Editorial), Silver (Editorial)
Art Director, HX Media, LLC
Managed creative for full-color New York City weekly celebrity and nightlife magazine (circulation: 110,000) and weekly newspaper (circulation: 50,000), including junior designers and interns. Directed original photography sessions. Purchased and edited stock;
provided photography.
Art Director Physicians, Continuing Education
Established brand consistency for three distinct companies in medical education agency. Coordinated freelance designers and production details. Created national brand materials for professional conference,
international student medical association and dermatological health organization. Designed in-store medical packaging.
Senior Interactive/UX Designer Monster.com
Interactive/UX Designer Monster.com
Created flow models and prototypes to introduce new products for UI testing; redesigned site content structure, successfully increasing user participation. Managed junior designers and interns; performed as
team with technical development and product management. Completed partnership branding work for Olympics, MTV and McDonalds.2001 MIMC Interactive Awards Winner (Community Site Design)
Graphic Designer, drugstore.com
Contributed to initial site launch content and construction; produced print and web promotional materials; acted as Design Lead in first website redesign. Directed original product photography
Created template for dynamic content (article-based).
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Freelance Clients INCLUDE
Kimmel International Film, Italian
International Film, Eagle Pictures,
Signs of Love Production, Chakra
Media Group, suspect thoughts press,
Soft Skull Press, Senior Whole Health,
Freedom Drug, Priority Healthcare
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SKILLS
MARKETING AND BRANDING
Identity design, photography direction,
print collateral, websites, logo
and typography
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Discovery, information architecture,
interface design, prototyping and
usability testing
WEB DEVELOPMENT
FLUENT HTML, XML, CSS 1&2, PHP
FAMILIAR Macromedia Actionscript
SOFTWARE
FLUENT Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady,
Illustrator, Streamline, InDesign ,
Lightroom and Acrobat. QuarkXPress.
Microsoft office.
FAMILIAR Corel Painter. Macromedia
Freehand and Flash. Adobe Premiere
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
Public Speaking, Leadership Training
Staff supervision, hiring, training
Languages: English, Italian, Russian
- Personal Interests
- Outdoorsmen (SCUBA, Sailing, Hiking, etc.), Artist (spoken word, literary, collage), Music (live concerts, learning guitar and avid music explorer), Travel, Photography (promateur career in travel photography)
- Education:
- B.S. in Journalism (Minors in Russian Studies and Socio-Cultural Theory)
- Other Web Profile or Personal Web Site
- http://www.torquere.com
- Relationship Status:
- In a Relationship
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