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Presenting David Porter, designer
661.714.4170 (north of Los Angeles)
porter_c3d [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Objective
I intend to find and help the company that wishes to adapt New Media and the internet to best-practice advertising techniques for informative, entertaining and profitable retail or business-to-business purposes.
My USP
I am a collaborative type whose decisions and actions consider your sales and profits first. I work well with others, listen proactively, and have no problem with Non-Disclosure Agreements and Work For Hire preferences. Productive ideas begin rolling in the first ten minutes of discussion.
I further benefit your operations with a small footprint working remotely for very small companies, being fully connected to the digital workflow. We have successfully developed many virtual projects by email, FTP, and web conference. Also, I am resourceful, expertly using a wide range of traditional tools should the project warrant.
Experience
Experience of 20+ years, freelancing for design boutique firms throughout Southern California developing merchandising concepts with licensed characters, mainly with various departments at Disney-- giftware, toys, apparel, comics, licensing guides, advertising, packaging, and point-of-purchase collateral.
Spent a decade developing User Interface, web ad campaigns, web updater assets, and printed materials for the software development firm, QuestSoft.
Reworked print art into digital CD-ROM assets, for Design for Interactivity Inc. and products for Flavia, both Santa Barbara.
Created licensed character tie-ins and toy concepts for Pangea Corp. in Dana Point.
Capabilities
- Advanced Illustrator vector graphics and Photoshop skills.
- Flash library assets, for use in product promo CDs, and tradeshow loops.
- Develop and produce web ad campaigns, concept presentation boards.
- Concept development for ads and info-tainment projects.
- Character design, production drawings and Turnabouts; toy concepts.
- Flatting, lettering and pagination for magazines, booklets and comics.
Software
- Proficient= Windows XPpro. (note: can return to Mac; switched at G3, running OS8.x).
- Advanced= PhotoshopCS, IllustratorCS, Acrobat PDF.
- Toddling= Flash4, InDesignCS2, QuarkXPress4, CSS2, DreamweaverMX, Wacom Intuos3.
- Upcoming= After Effects, SketchUp6, ArtRage2, Scribus
Education
- Degree in Commercial Technical Illustration, Pierce College (dean’s list).
- Ad Rendering techniques, Storyboard Rendering, Head Drawing, Art Center L.A.(night).
- Print Advertising, with Cy Lamm at Advertising Center L.A
- QXP, Flash, Life Drawing, Design Concepts, College of the Canyons, SCV
- Web Design (I,II) and Windows Computing (I,II), Saddleback College, O.C.
- eCommerce Concepts, College of the Canyons, SCV
Current Learning
Continuing Education is a priority on a digital frontier in motion. Current A/v instruction includes:
- InDesignCS2, NAPP
- Blender 3D modeling techniques, BlenderUnderground.com video series.
Samples
Samples too sensitive to be included on tearsheets or posted online, can be viewed at our initial consultation.
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