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| School
of Advertising Art - 10/92 - 05/94 |
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Student - Kettering, OH |
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was a small school in Dayton, 2 years, a limit of fourty per
year, but NO other studies than design 8 hours a day. When I
left I had more hands on design time than someone from a four-year
school. The web wasn't even a real word yet. |
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| Collegeview
- 02/95 - 12/95 |
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Media Designer - Cincinnati, OH |
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| One
of my first jobs out of design school was designing for a college
selection program. Each school getting a custom designed presentation.
This is where I learned how to design for the screen, by the
time I left the web was an infant and I had begun to design
for it enough to spark my interest in staying in the medium. |
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| Various
Contracting jobs - 12/95-11/96 |
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| I
worked from the house on some smaller jobs when I could find
them. I decided to stop looking for traditional graphic design
jobs, only looking for web jobs as it was the wave of the "future".
In the early days they were kinda hard to come by, to say the
least. I knew going back to the traditional print design world,
was not for me. |
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| Crown
Equip. Corp. - 11/96 - 10/97 |
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Graphic Designer - New Bremen, OH |
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| I
loved these guys, I still keep in contact with them too. They
contracted me long term to design a product user manual for
a new kind of personal lift transport. What resulted was a Industrial
Designer's Society of America's Industrial Design Excellence
Award (IDEA) for the vehicle, but also the manual I designed,
both winning coveted golds. In the industrial design world,
the IDEA is like a Oscar. I have a spiffy trophy on my desk
now, and my other ID friends hate me, (hehehe!). |
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| CSI,
Inc. [Now Digineer] - 10/97 - 03/98 |
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Web Design Contractor |
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This a great company I worked for as a contractor. They designed
medical software solutions, and I designed some demo product
pages and a webpage or two for them. I got a real job offer
or else I'd have stayed longer. |
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| Active,
Inc. - 03/98 - 05/99 |
| Creative
Director - Cincinnati, OH |
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| This
was a very small web firm, just three people, with money and
all, things just didn't work out. |
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| Ethos
[Now Eviciti] - 05/99 -03/00 |
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Interactive Designer - Cincinnati, OH |
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| Within
a week I had a job as a full-time contractor at Ethos. After
several months I went full-time employee, also about the same
time they were bought/merged into what was supposed to be a
22-branch international mega digi-lith. I was really happy here,
but I am not a big corporate designer and wasn't looking forward
to being one. It's at this time The folks at ViewSource contacted
me and offered to save me from the perils of downtown Cincinnati
and super pricey pay-parking. I went. I shouldn't have. I really
miss these guys. |
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| ViewSource
Media - 03/00 to 10/01 |
| Interactive
Designer - Cincinnati, OH |
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| Every
designer has one job that is a monumental mistake in judgment
- this was mine. I went from being extremely happy and challenged
in a supportive environment at Eviciti with the most talented
bunch of folks I've ever had the pleasure to know to not enjoying
my work, and being severely limited. This was the only job I
ever walked out on. I just couldn't take it anymore. On the
upside I met Robin,
who worked there too and was only there slightly longer than
me before nearly everyone flew the coop. |
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| Currently
working as very big design - Hiya! |
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| Feeling
liberated, I decided to play it solo a while and lucked into
work very fast. Right out of the shoot, I got several projects,
both completed and currently ongoing, for Vigilinx (formerly
Logikeep) as well as just beginning some work for Great American
Insurance Company. Things are going good, but I miss working
with people. My dogs while fun and always entertaining, are
bad conversationalists and have no design sense. |
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| Awards: |
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| Industrial
Design Society Of America (IDSA) |
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| Recipient
of Gold I.D.E.A. Award (1999) for Graphics and Packaging for
Crown "Wave" Product Manual. Head Designer. (See
award page) I worked under the name XXL Design then. |
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| Society
for Technical Communications |
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--Best of Show from SW Ohio region.
--Best of Show Finalist and Distinguished Winner of STC's
International Technical Publications Competition, 2001 in
the Non-Computer Equipment Guides category. (See
award page) |
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| Press: |
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| Apple
iTools and iReview |
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| One
of the only personal sites included in the short-lived iReview
service that was a part of iTools. Dome-O-Rama site was featured
in a monthly email with a screen shot in a mailing to over 30,000
users and recieved ALOT of traffic and notice. My ISP hated
me that week. |
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| Kinko's
Impress Magazine |
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| Featured
in article on the rise of clipart and how to use it and work
it to look custom. Impress was a short lived magazine produced
by Kinko's for customers. |
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| Swing
Magazine |
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| Interviewed
and featured in article about the rise of retro for a swing-dance
interest magazine. |
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| MacLife
Magazine - Japan |
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| Retro
backgrounds from my Dome-O-Rama (now on Pixeldecor.com) site
featured and supplied on an accompanying CD-Rom in Japan's largest
(and HEFTY!) mac-only magazine. They told me they have a circulation
of 250,000 and growing, and were kind enough to send me a copy
since I naturally couldn't get one here. That was cool! |
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| MacHome
Magazine - April 2003 |
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| My
Pixeldecor site was featured prominiently in atwo-page spread
on desktop customization. |
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| Other
interesting stuff: |
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My
patterns from Pixeldecor are appearing on all sorts of items
from light switchplates, business card cases, book jackets,
photo sharing websites to even slot machines!
The retro themed slot machine debuts in October 2003 from
IGT, International Gaming Tech out of Reno Nevada, one of
the big names in Las Vegas gambling machines. |
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| Contact
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Jen Funk Segrest
3217 Keays Ave.
Middletown, OH 45044
ph:513.424.9202
jen@verybigdesign.com
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