ABOUT

Jennifer Corthell has worked in the printing and newspaper industry for the last 29 years. She is a well-organized, responsible, team player with a keen eye for attention to detail and experience in areas of art direction, design and brand development. She uses her extensive design knowledge and experience to build memorable ad campaigns and designs.

Jennifer is a recipient of numerous SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) awards, and a NENPA (New England Newspaper and Press Association) for 2nd best newspaper designer.

Jennifer is a graduate of The Morgan School, and has a degree in Advertising Design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

She is also a fine artist that enjoys airbrush, watercolor and charcoal drawing as well as many other mediums. With her two dogs Bailey and Georgia, she now resides in Connecticut where she was raised. In her free time she enjoys ballroom dancing, exercise and walking the dogs and going to the beach.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2005-Present Senior Designer
Shore Publishing, Madison

• Layout and Design of élan magazine: responsible for

layout of articles, images, typography, color and composition.

Cover image & design.
• Newspaper layout, Special Section layout and design,

brand designs, promotional marketing packages, newspaper ads,

flyers, brochures, web ads, flash ads.
• Applications utilized: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash,

Word, FP Beacon, NCS Citrix, New Cycle and Adobe Acrobat.
• Scanned and color corrected images.
• Prepared and output files to printer

2001-2005 Graphic Designer
Main Street News, Essex
• Created ads for the newspaper
• Newspaper layout and special section layout and design
• Prepared and output files to printer
• Applications utilized: Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Illustrator,

and Adobe Acrobat.
• Scanned and color corrected images.

1997-2001 Art Director
Lawrence Printing & Design, Inc., Lawrence, KS
• Conceptualized, designed and produced all projects.
• Oversaw, organized and upgraded graphics department.
• Created 1 to 5 color: brand designs, promotional packages,

magazine ads,catalogs, brochures, embossed and die-cut pieces.
• Applications utilized: Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Illustrator,

FreeHand, PageMaker, Adobe Streamline, Adobe Pagemill,

Painter, FlightCheck and Adobe Acrobat.
• Scanned and color corrected images.
• Conducted design presentations to clients.
• Provided tutorial assistance to graphics students at

University of Kansas.
• Prepared and output projects to imagesetter, as well as

processed the film.
• Service Bureau output of customer files.
• Maintained imagesetter and processor.

1996-1997 Art Director
Advanced Film Labs, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• Conducted presentations to clients on design concepts.
• Created 4 color promotional pieces: magazine ads, catalogs,

company brands, postcards, brochures, and packages.
• Applications utilized on PC and Mac platform: Photoshop,

Quark Xpress, Illustrator, FreeHand, PageMaker, Corel Draw,

Painter, FlightCheck and Adobe Acrobat.
• Scanned and color corrected photos and negatives on

flatbed, drum and leaf scanners.
• Service bureau output of customer files to imagesetter.
• Processed, stripped and registered linotronic film.
• Prepared matchprints, color keys, and Konica proofs.

1995-1996 Art Director
Express Printing, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL

1990-1995 Art Director / Production Manager
Penguin Press, Inc., Dania, FL