MARK SEAN WILSON

(818) 967-7469

www.markseanwilson.com

markdesigns2007@yahoo.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employment

Fans-See This! Los Angeles, CA 04/09-10/09
Illustrator/ Designer

Collaborate with writer once a week for storyboard meetings and responsible for all Illustration for Daily comic strip.

Living Direct Austin, TX 08/07-3/09
Photographer/Designer

Manage all Photo shoots and catalog design. Set up photo shoots using high quality studio. Uploading and optimizing to web with fireworks. Photoshop was utilized for color correction and background removal and Indesign for catalog layout and formats.

BibleStart.com Dallas, TX 09/08 -09/09

Illustrator/Concept Artist

• Help Conceptualize the vision with word docs and excel
• Contract to Illustrate 400 Illustrations using scan, sketching, clean up in illustrator and lighting in Photoshop

Custom pins Express Dallas, TX 04/08-05/08

• Design logos for trading pins in Illustrator using the pen tool and color swatches to create clean vector work.
• Created mock up metal proofs for pints utilizing texture modes and channels in Photoshop.

Light Underground Publ. Fortworth, TX 04/07-08/07

Illustrator/ Editor/ Graphic Designer

• Illustrated 50 drawings - “Office Poetry”
• Created designs for product art and book layout

With Illustrator and Indesign for creative pieces and formatting)

• Edited short films – “Office Poetry”

(Premier Pro)

• Designed website –

(Dreamweaver and Image Ready)

Life Alert Encino, CA 05/05 – 03/07

Art Director/ Graphic Designer

• Direct photo shoots with cannon digital camera
• Designed all test and print ads, brochures and mailers utilizing Photoshop for masking and color correction as well as Indesign for layout of design
• Designed and maintained websites and banners and interactive pdf’s utilizing Dreamweaver and image ready for animated banners as well as Acrobat Distiller.

Yafa Inc. Canoga Park, CA 02/04 – 02/05

Art Director/ Graphic Designer

• Designed print ads with the use of channel color correction in Photoshop and taking content and using Quark and Illustrator for layout and identity logos.
• Designed packaging comps for Yafa Pen products

(Distributed to Office Depot, Fry’s, TJ-Max & Office Max)

• Designed exhibit displays for trade shows

Using Illustrator for visuals and mock miniature models)

• Responsible for photography of all pen products using digital camera and Photoshop for touch up work and masking images with pen tool and lasso tools)

X-plain Corp. Westlake Village, CA 10/03 – 02/04

Art Director/ Graphic Designer

• Designed catalogs, magazine ads and art covers

(PhotoShop, Quark and Illustrator)

• Created logos, company branding and web banners

Using vector styles from Illustrator, Image Ready. Flash and Quark for heavy content in text and formatting)

Gale Banks Engineering Azusa, CA 06/03 – 09/03

Illustrator/ Graphic Designer

• Illustrate engine parts, race cars, maps, t-shirts and owner’s manuals using the vector tools of Illustrator such as pen tool, gradient meshes and blend tools and pathfinder.
• Design dealer manuals, engine cards, and owner’s manual layout with Photoshop creative tools, Quark and Indesign formatting

Platt College Eagle Rock, CA 10/01 – 05/03

Substitute Teacher

• Teach students in the art of Graphic Design for industry standard programs

(Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Flash, typography, design and color theory, method tools and technologies)

Einetco Inc. Studio City, CA 03/98 – 03/00

Graphic Designer

• Created digital imagery for company clients

From the Photoshop filters

SKILLS

Mac and PC

Expert	Intermediate	Novice
Photoshop	Adobe Premiere Pro	Flash
Illustrator	PowerPoint
Quark	After Effects	Coral Draw
Indesign	Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word	Html
Photography
Typography
Color Theory
Freehand Drawing
Dreamweaver
Image Ready Fireworks Adobe Acrobat Publisher

EDUCATION

2002 - Platt College Associate in Graphics/Certificate for Multimedia

Alpha Beta Kappa National Honor Society Award