Jill Darlington Smith CV
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Jill Darlington-Smith is a graphic design expert with over 20 years of experience in marketing, publishing, and design, holding a digital design diploma and a business administration degree. She has served in various roles including art director and graphic designer, and has taught Adobe InDesign at Radford University. Jill specializes in creating user-friendly designs for print and digital media, and actively promotes her work through online portfolios.
Jill Darlington Smith CV
- 1. SPECIALTY MARKETING License plate and High Vistas Newsletter: CONTRACT DESIGNER for FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway, 2009 to present. ART DIRECTOR, pre-press manager, and graphic designer for Southern Printing, VA, 2005-2009 and Quality Printers, SC, 2002-2005. DARLINGTON-SMITH GRAPHICS (since 2010) design, devel- opment and printing of miscellaneous marketing and adver- tising projects for print and web. HELLO,MYNAMEISJILLDARLINGTON-SMITH A SHORT PRESENTATION I am a graphic design maven with a digital design diploma from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, PA (honors 2006), a bachelors degree in Business Administration from Central Michigan University (BS BA 1983), and have taught DSN220 Adobe Indesign at Radford University, Fall 2014. In addition to having 20+ years design, marketing and publishing experience, I also enjoy exploring new technology and software, as well as designing and developing for the human factors of psychology, user interaction, and experience. MY SKILL SET, HOW I WORK I help define the product vision, distill rough project ideas into concrete project designs, and create beautiful user experiences for print and mobile. I work with a variety of software choosing the perfect tools to craft each project. MY TOOLS OF CHOICE ADOBE INDESIGN. . . . . Expert Lever User/Teacher ADOBE PHOTOSHOP. . Expert Level User ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR. . Advanced Level User ADOBE MUSE. . . . . . . . Intermediate Level User MY SPECIALTIES, WHAT I DO MY EXPERIENCES, MY SUCCESSES & WHAT I HAVE DONE I have had the opportunity to develop expertise in a wide variety of graphic related fields, creating projects for different industries and services, and for hundreds of customers and clients. I AM ONLINE, DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS I have uploaded many project samples and digital publi- cations to promote my clients and their causes. I hope to share my personal knowledge and experience and love of all things digital. MY DIGITAL VAULTS WEBSITE. . www.DarlingtonSmithGraphics.com ISSUU. . . . www. Issuu.com/JillDarlington LINKEDIN. LinkedIn.com/pub/Jill-Darlington-Smith FACEBOOK.facebook.com/JillDarlingtonSmith facebook.com/DarlingtonSmithGraphics EDITORIAL PUBLISHING ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING TYPOGRAPHY LOGO - LOGOTYPE PHOTO MANIPULATION PHOTO RETOUCHING BRANDING ADVERTISING MERCHANDISING MOBILE APPS WEBSITES INFO GRAPHICS PACKAGING DIGITAL ART ILLUSTRATION CONTRACT DESIGNER Redesign fish food, aquar- ium, pond products and retail display: CONTRACT DIGITAL ARTIST for Tetra, VA, 1998-2000. PACKAGINGSPECIALISTandgraphicdesignerforTechPak, MO, 2000-2002, and Energy Savers, Unlimited, VA/CA 1996- 1998 PROFESSORteaching Adobe Indesign at Radford Univer- sity, DSN220, fall 2014. INSTRUCTOR leading graphic design, publishing and facebook classes for networking and non-profit groups CURRUCULUM VITAE THE RESPONSE CENTER, MAKE YOUR CHOICE READ, EXPECTED TIME TO READ: 97 SECONDS CONTACT JILL PHONE: 540.257.0885 EMAIL: JILL@DARLINGTONSMITH.COM THE TRASHCAN: RECYCLE THIS PAPER GO ONLINE FOR MORE INFORMATION WEBSITE: DARLINGTONSMITH.COM ISSUU: ISSUU.COM/JILLDARLINGTON Thank You, Jill Darlington-Smith