RESUMÉ

David Kidd

 AWARDS
"Award for Merit in Corporate Advertising” from the Society for Technical Communication, https://www.stc.org/ stc.org/ for the design of the catalogue for the University of California, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences caes.ucdavis.edu
Awarded both "Best Layout and Design" and "Best Entertainment Section" in 2009 by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, nnpa.org
Year Prize for Drawing at Edinburgh College of Art.

SKILLS
Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Quark XPress, Acrobat Professional, HTML, CSS, FTP, Litserv, MS Office.on both Mac and PC Windows   

EMPLOYMENT

Graphic Artist at Goldenaer goldenaer.com Portland Oregon, May 2014 - present. Clients include:
Art First https://www.artfirstcolors.com/,
Yakima https://yakima.com/
David Chelsea https://www.dchelsea.com/wp/author/dchelsea/
University of California, Agriculture, https://ucanr.edu/

Graphic Designer at The Skanner News Group https://www.theskanner.com/:Portland Oregon - 2006 – 2016 Management and production of theskanner.com and theskannermobile.com daily news web sites, including responsible for designing and producing advertisements. Management of online advertising using OpenX-pHp. LitServ mailings, Manage mailing database, operate aStore. Management of daily news web sites : theskanner.com/and theskannermobile.com/ Creates layout weekly print newspaper full-color.

Graphic Artist at Seventeenth Street Studios http://www.17th.com/ 410 Twelfth Street #300, Oakland, CA 94607
1987-1997 Contact: Naomi Schiff, supervisor: ‭(510) 910-3764‬ “His technical bent was most useful in troubleshooting and coming up with practical approaches to knotty problems.”
Layout books on Macintosh and illustrate them with diagrams in both pen-and-ink and digital formats. Also perform press-checks.
Clients include: University of California https://ucanr.edu/
Addison Wesley
Benjamin Cummings https://www.pearson.com/en-us.html.
McGraw-Hill Education https://www.mheducation.com/
Ortho Books
Chronicle Books
Sybex Computer Books. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sybex

Graphic Designer in Great Britain

Studio manager of the layout department of educational book printers. Clients include:
Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/education/?region=international,
Macmillan,
British Leyland,
Bath Archaeological Trust,
Journals: Medicine International and Antiquarian Book Monthly Review.

Designer of point of sale illuminated advertising, making visuals of proposals for the salesmen; artwork, drafting, cardboard engineering. Clients include: national advertisers:
ICI Pharmaceuticals,
Oxfam,
The Automobile Association,
Guinness,
Marlboro and
Burger King 

EDUCATION    

Certificate in Video Production, North Portland Multimedia Training Center, Portland, OR, 2008.
Certificates in Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator, Portland Community College, pcc.edu/ Portland, OR, 2006.
PrintEd Certificate, Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation,1996
Certificate in Desktop Publishing, Laney Community College, Oakland, CA, 1988.
BFA in Graphic Design, Edinburgh College of Art, United Kingdom, 1975.

REFERENCES
Available on request.