SUMMARY

Based in New York, Vicky Heinlein is a Senior Art Director skilled in both promotional communications and interactive media design. Her work experiences with varied teams of professionals illustrates her ability to quickly adapt to new situations and meld her own brand of creativity to any undertaking.

SPECIALTIES

Creative Direction, Graphic Design, Web Design (UI/UX), Branding/Identity Design, Advertising & Marketing Collateral Design

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Art Director, March 2006 - present
SourceMedia (Thomson Media), New York
(Promoted from Art Director to Senior Art Director in October '07)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Managing overall art direction, project workflow, and company-wide client relations
• Ensuring quality of concurrent projects delivered on-time for various internal corporate/marketing/sales groups
• Coordinating with Executive Creative Director to ensure smooth departmental workflow
• Mentoring and working closely with team members, training staff in new techniques and technologies
• Day-to-day design duties include: marketing promotional collateral design, interactive media design, and various brand-specific design direction

Senior Designer, August 2001 - March 2006
Interactive Media, Paradenet
Condé Nast Publications, New York

DUTIES INCLUDE:
• Timely web site redesigns to coincide with print publication
• Creation of interactive feature pieces, motion graphics design for special presentations and sales support, photo editing and retouching
• Promotional collateral design, marketing mini-sites, and designing e-mail campaigns
• Managed various special projects and oversaw contract staff
• Worked closely with editorial, technical, PR, marketing, and sales staff to gather disparate elements and requirements into a cohesive design solution

Freelance Art Director - offsite, June 2001 - present
Mode-V.com, New York
Worked with clients from various industries including technology, fashion, publishing, music, e-commerce, hospitality, and ad agency. Responsibilities include storyboarding, project management, art direction, hands-on design execution from concept to completion of projects.

Client list: Aquent, iPrefer Interactive, South Sea Treasures, HauteZine, MIT Press, ScienceVsNature, Modernista!, DXG Technology Inc.

Graphic Designer, August 2000 - May 2001
Talbot Design Group, Los Angeles
Duties included brochure design, catalog design, developing logos and brand identity elements of clients, web site design, and creating interfaces for interactive client pieces.

Designer, April 2000 - August 2000
Zatec Printing Inc., Los Angeles
Duties included designing corporate and promotional web sites, creating original illustrations for children’s products, logo and identity designs, and working with printer services.

AWARDS | HONORS

Judge
Eddie & Ozzie Awards 2010
Folio Magazine

Award of Distinction
The Communicator Awards 2008
International | Academy of the Visual Arts

Best Design (Media Kit)
American In-House Design Awards 2007
Graphic Design USA

Design Forte Award: Food For Imagination
Netdiver.net

Best of Show, Senior Category
Annual Design Show 2000, CSUF

EXHIBITION

Design Exhibition
“AIGA: 100 Views of Graphic Design,”
Guggenheim Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000

PUBLICATIONS

Work published in Design Education In Progress: Process and Methodology, Volume 2 Type and Image

SKILLS

Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, After Effects, HTML, CSS

EDUCATION

Interaction Design | School of Visual Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design | California State University, Fullerton
Foundation | Art Center College of Design

REFERENCE

Available upon request