SUMMARY
Broadly experienced art director… from concept-to-print, branding development, corporate collateral, advertising and marketing campaigns, packaging design, to large format environmental graphics for trade shows and museum environments. An accomplished creative strategist and conceptor, graphic designer, project manager, and visual problem solver.
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
Adobe Creative Suite, Quark, Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, and Quick Books.
EXPERIENCE
Freelance Art Director | Exhibit Designer
Stan Cain Design LLC, Long Branch, NJ 1987 – present
Art directing and consulting. Concept-to-print, digital pre-press pro. New corporate identity and collateral development, trade advertising campaigns, packaging design, direct mail, large format print, museum exhibitions, and Internet design. Extensive experience as exhibit designer/preparator, special event logistics, and web master. PrintDesign Inc. was the design firm I founded in 1987, servicing pre-press and graphic design needs from a downtown office building I renovated. Heavy client contact, travel, budget, vendor liaison, and deadline intensive. Press checks, location and studio photo shoots. Clients: Bausch & Lomb, Ceramco, Datamatics, Hartford Family Foundation, Lanmark Group Advertising, NJ Healthcare Facilities Financing Authority, PAK Manufacturing, Monmouth County Historical Association, Monmouth Museum, Parliament Tutors.
Senior Marketing Associate | Project Manager
Jeffrey Sobel Consulting LLC, Summit, NJ 2018 – 2022
Specialist to nonprofits. Strategic planning for annual campaign, major gifts and planned giving programs. Project facilitation. Special event, meeting and speaker support. Organization, board development and retreats. Marketing, branding, web, social media and print projects, including grant and RFP support. Corporate identity programs. Print broker and shipping logistics.
Art Director | Graphic Designer
Pasch Consulting Group, Eatontown, NJ 2009 – 2015
Marketing lead for 50 person digital marketing agency. Developed creative strategies and 360º marketing campaigns. Design support. Heavy publications layout through production. Custom event (trade shows, awards, training conferences and educational courses) support.
Exhibit Graphics Manager | Art Director
Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, New York, NY 2000 – 2006
Developed all in-house marketing materials and special projects for RFP and new client pitches. Managed the 2D Graphic Design department, reporting staff of 3. Extended client brands to immersive, experiential, 3D environments for the largest custom trade show and museum design-build firm in the US. Developed sales tool budgets and schedules, coordinated vendors. Clients: Samsung, LG, Avaya, Fuji, American Museum of Natural History, Pro Football Hall of Fame.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE | ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Creative: Developed creative strategies, concepts, and budgets for advertising campaigns. Defined target audiences, steered vehicles and established copy platform – while raising the bar on excellence agency-wide
• Highly Responsible & Reliable: DoD security clearance
• Environment: Former chairman, Long Branch Environmental Commission, secured Jackson Woods Green Acres grant
• Renovator: Part-time landlord for 23 years, upgraded 7 residential and 2 commercial units in Long Branch, NJ
EDUCATION | CERTIFICATIONS
BFA Bachelor Fine Arts, Advertising Design - Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
AA Associate Arts, Photography - Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
CIW Certified Internet Webmaster - Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ
Survey of Museum Exhibition Design Projects with Reference Contacts
Asbury Park Museum • President: Kay Harris • 908-461-3156
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager.
Be Our Guest: The Grand Hotels of Asbury Park
April to December 2023 – portable • Curators Harris Horner
Trailblazing Women of Asbury Park
August 2022 to May 2023 • Curator Avis H Anderson, underwritten by Ethan Grossman
One Voice Is Not Enough: Asbury Park’s Musical Diversity since 1871
December 2021 – July 2022 – portable • Curators Harris & Horner, underwritten by Monmouth University
A Segregated Seahsore: 150 Years of Transformation
July to December 2021 – portable • Curators Harris & Horner, underwritten by Monmouth University
Exhibitgroup/Giltspur • Brian Schiels, VP
2D Graphics Manager at the Edison, NJ and Soho, NYC offices.
American Museum of Natural History: Rose Center for Earth & Space - New York, NY
Professional Football Hall of Fame - Canton, Ohio
Hartford Family Foundation • Jeff Wrightson, Pres • jwrightson60@gmail.com
Ongoing consulting, collateral, newsletters, exhibition catalog, and website development.
A&P In American Life - Companion exhibition at Fancy Food Show, Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY
Parliament Fedcology • David Greenberg, Pres• dgreenberg@parliamenttutors.com
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager.
History Walls of the 217th Infantry Brigade - Joint Base McGuire Dix
March 2020 – permanent • Curator Melissa Ziobro
Lake Wappapello State Park, MO • Jennifer Morse, US Army Corps of Engineers • Jennifer.R.Morse@usace.army.mil Principal exhibit designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager, liaison to Parliament Tutors vendor of record.
Pollinator Garden: 6 outdoor interpretive cantilever panels around a greenhouse plant beds (bee, hummingbird, butterfly, pollination, wildflower, prairie), an outdoor classroom standard upright, wayfinding maps, destination branding, hiking trail and safety communication, and 3 commissioned metal sculptures. Contracts in 2020 and 2023.
Long Branch Arts & Cultural Center • Joint exhibition project between the City, the LBA&C, the Public Library, the Long Branch Historical Association and the Church of the Presidents
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager, curator.
Two Terms & Eight Summers: Ulysses S. Grant’s Time in Long Branch
April – May 2022
Monmouth County Historical Assoc • Directors: Evelyn C. Murphy, PhD; Chuck H. Jones III; Linda Bricker • 732-241-4494
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager.
Monmouth County, 9/11 and its Aftermath
September 2021 – November 2021, recurring • Curator Melissa Ziobro
SPRINGSTEEN: His Hometown
September 2019 – September 2020 • Curator Melissa Ziobro
Tracking Sandy: Monmouth County Remembers
October 2017 – December 2019 • Curator Melissa Ziobro
Hartshorne: Eight Generations and Their Highlands Estate Called Portland
October 2016 – April 2017 • Curator Joseph W. Hammond
Faces From Our Past: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
August 2016 – ongoing at Taylor-Butler House • Curator Joseph W. Hammond
Of the Best Materials and Good Workmanship: 19th Century New Jersey Chairmaking
December 2015 – July 2016 • Curator Joseph W. Hammond
That Memorable Sabbath-day: The Battle of Monmouth in Drawings, Paintings & Prints
July 2016 – 2018 2nd Floor Museum • Guest Curator Carole Lowrey, PhD
Beautiful Childhood: Portraits from the Permanent Collection
June 2015 – December 2015 2nd Floor Museum • Guest Curator Carole Lowrey, PhD
Unexcelled Portraits: Monmouth County Families Captured by Monroe Edelstein
September 2015 at Taylor-Butler House
Spirituals To Soul: African American Musical Heritage in Monmouth 1880-1980
June 2015 – November 2015 • Curators Pam & Charles Horner
Monmouth Museum • Avis H. Anderson, Executive Director • 732-222-0330 • avisanderson506@gmail.com
Ongoing freelance design, project management, and consulting. Participate in special event, fundraising, exhibition, and building & grounds committees.
NJ Pinelands: Water in the Balance • Co-curated, designed, fabricated, installed 2,300 sq ft exhibition in Main Gallery.
The Estuary: Life in the Mix • Co-curated, designed, fabricated, installed 2,300 sq ft exhibition in Main Gallery.
Blast Off! Becker Children’s Wing Expansion • Co-curated, designed, fabricated, installed bi-level children’s wing expansion.
Ocean County Historical Society • Brian Bovasso, President • 609-439-1242
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager, Birsdall Gallery overhaul.
Artifacts and Tools of the Native American in Ocean County • March 2019 – permanent
T Thomas Fortune Foundation & Cultural Center • Gilda Rogers, Executive Director/Curator • 908-461-3156
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager.
The Black Press • coming Summer 2023 – perm
Ascension: The Parker Family Legacy • June 2022 – perm
Black Firsts in Medicine at Monmouth Medical Center • June 2022 – portable
A Love Letter to Count Basie: From the Great Migration to the Harlem Renaissance • September 2020 – semi-perm
InfoAge • Mike Ruane Executive Director • 732-462-14
Principal exhibition designer, creative strategist, consultant, project manager.
Black Excellence and Achievement at Fort Monmouth • coming Summer 2023 – perm • Curator Melissa Ziobro