DEANE NETTLES, Art Director

3623 Keswick Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-243-1790
703-434-2550 cell
deane@deanenettles.com

CAPABILITIES

Think strategically, consistently generating the most impact with the clients' resources.

Art direct creatively cross-media in diverse disciplines, including advertising, graphic design, web design and motion graphics, corporate identity, direct mail, publications, packaging, and event creation and promotion. Edit copy in support of the strategy. Comp, illustrate and storyboard.

Manage designers, photographers, illustrators, production artists, printers, and web production personnel. Interface with printers, production houses, mail houses, and web programmers.

Print: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft suite. Deep experience in smart, impeccable print production and strategy, color management and color correction.

Web: Dreamweaver, Flash, and hand-coded css, php, mysql, and web research tools Morae and Tobii T60 eyetracker

Video: Basic videography, Final Cut Pro, sound editing

Teaching: Adobe Creative Suite CS5 applications, primarily InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash; principles of graphic design, typography, drawing and storytelling.

EXPERIENCE

Freelance Art Director
Deane Nettles Associates
Baltimore, MD
June 2007–present
Art direction, design, production and project coordination for area communications firms and clients, including the American Chemical Society, Aspen Publishers, International Monetary Fund, PBS, Phillips Publishing, PhotoMedia magazine, Social Security Administration and the U.S. Postal Service.

Art Director
The Rosen Group
Baltimore, MD
July–November 2011
Art direction of quarterly magazines AmericanStyle and NICHE and design and maintenance of their WordPress-based websites.

Senior Art Director
August, Lang & Husak
Bethesda, MD
May 2004–June 2007
Spearheaded six million dollar naming opportunity campaign and subsequent cross-media rebranding of Charles E. Smith Life Communities (senior care). Conceived, designed & produced ads, brochures, Web sites and collateral. Clients included Bell Education Centers, transit signage for Betsy Fisher (fashion), print campaign for Booz-Allen Golf Classic (sports), brochures, ads and and DVD packaging for The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (news), WETA-FM (media), and other business-to-business, association and governmental clients.

Freelance Art Director
PhotoMedia magazine
Seattle, WA
June 2003– October 2004
Art directed and produced award-winning quarterly west-coast consumer-oriented photography magazine.

Art Director
Stars and Stripes Omnimedia
Arlington, VA
May 2000–May 2001
Set up creative department and art directed and produced weekly U.S.-based veterans newspaper Stars and Stripes and monthly sister magazine Stripes Jobs. Art directed and produced corporate collateral materials, advertising and promotions for publications. Provided graphics to web developer in support of online publication.

Freelance Art Director
Regardie’s POWER magazine
Washington, DC
1999–2000
Set up creative department and designed publication, corporate collateral materials, advertising and promotions for re-launch of high-profile regional business magazine.

Designer/Ad Graphics, start-up team, washingtonpost.com, Arlington, VA

Creative Director, ad agency Old City Group, Washington, DC

Assistant Art Director, ad agency KSK Communications, Ltd., McLean, VA

TEACHING

Adjunct Faculty
Montgomery College
Montgomery County, MD
2006–present
Introductory classes in graphic design, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash.

Adjunct Faculty
Boston University — Center for Digital Imaging Arts
Washington, DC
2008–present
Intensive introductory classes in Illustrator and production.

Adjunct Faculty
Howard Community College
Columbia, MD
2010–present
Introduction to graphic design

AFFILIATIONS

Life Member
Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington
Washington, DC
1988–present
Past president, Annual Show chair and program chair. Planned, budgeted, hired talent and promoted events, raised money, recruited sponsors, coordinated and supported volunteers. Currently create training for designers. Committed to creating unity among professional corporate communications organizations.

Board Member
Society for History and Graphics
Baltimore, MD
2009-Present

Board Member
Ad Club Seattle
Seattle, Washington
2002-2004

EDUCATION

BA, News Journalism
Kent State University
Kent, OH, 1982

AA, Advertising Design
Northern Virginia Community College
Alexandria, VA, 1987
Editor and AD of award-winning student newspaper.

MFA, Integrated Design (print, web, video and copywriting)
University of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD, scheduled to graduate Spring 2012

AWARDS

ADCMW Annual Show, Illustrators Club, 3x3 Illustration Annual