Objective: Graphic Designer

Summary ∙ Experienced with design concepts for packaging and advertising.
∙ Photographer with skills in evaluating prints for reproduction.
∙ Familiar with print preparation and production.
∙ Understanding of video shooting and editing for television.
∙ Experience in Photoshop, QuarkXpress, Persuasion, FreeHandFile, PageMaker, Illustrator, Maker Pro, and MS Word.

Experience
GRAPHIC DESIGN ∙ Created consumer packaging using PMS and four-color processing; prepared designs for photo shoots.
∙ Produced ad campaign strategies for a variety of products and services.
- Designed thumbnails, roughs, and final comps for print advertising.
- Wrote copy for television and print media.

∙ Communicated corporate identity through design of logo and collateral.
∙ Created mechanicals; proofed blue lines and color keys.
∙ Used a wide range of typography to appeal to specific audiences.

PHOTOGRAPHY ∙ Photographed fashion and food compositions in studio settings.
∙ Developed portfolio of color landscape prints from across the U.S.
∙ Exhibited photos in two Bay Area locations.
∙ Won award in black and white community photo contest.
∙ Black and white darkroom and other technical experience.

Relevant Work History
(Concurrent with Education) 2000-pres. Freelance Computer Graphic Designer, San Francisco
1998-00 Marketing & Graphics Assistant, Smith & Co., San Francisco

Education B.F.A., Graphic Design & Marketing, anticipated Spring 2002
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Marketing Program, summer 2000
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

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Student Starting Career
This functional resume is a great example of how a student can present his limited experience to an employer. By creating relevant skill headings, he announced what he could do as a graphic designer (his job objective). And by stating "concurrent with education" in his Work History heading, he explained that he's an industrious fellow who worked his way through school. And get this: The reader could pick up on this before reading any of the small print!