The document is a resume for Wendy Lee that summarizes her experience as a graphic designer. It shows that she has over 15 years of experience in package design, branding, and production work for major cosmetic and publishing companies. Her background includes designing packaging for Maybelline and L'Oreal, as well as freelance design work for various clients.
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Work for various clients including Peter Thomas Roth,
Reliant, UpSet Press and others
Package and collateral design. Created re-designs
of existing products, designs for new launches, as well
as carry through designs for established brands
Design for companies such as L’Oreal, Si Med, and
various other clients
Package Graphic Designer
Design and production for mark. cosmetics
• Work includes primay and secondary packaging for
cosmetics and fragrance lines
Art Director
Design with a focus on the home furnishings industry
and large real estate developers in New York City
• Work includes catalogs, branding, brochures
and advertisements
• Clients include Robert Abbey, Padma’s Plantation,
Junior’s Cheesecake, KK Interiors, Winick Realty Group,
Thor Equities, Vornado Realty Trust
Production Artist
Production for a women’s clothing catalog
• Responsibilities include layout, text styling, image
management, as well as providing direction and
maintaining schedules for the re-touching, pre-press
and creative departments
Production Artist
Design and production for an advertising agency who
specializes in the pharmaceutical industry and is part
of one of the largest advertising groups in the world
• Clients include Bayer, Herceptin, Allergan, Biovail,
Genentech and others
• Promoted from freelance to staff position
• Company won “Agency of the Year” in 2006 for
pharmaceutical advertising
Design and production for companies who include
Raison Pure, U.S. Concepts, Custom Solutions from
SmartMoney, and FutureBrand
Production Artist
Produced line extensions for various high-end
cosmetics brands
• Clients include the Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
(Clinique, good skin, American Beauty, Flirt!,
Estée Lauder, Rodan+Fields, Bobbi Brown) and Chanel
• Promoted from freelance to staff position
Freelance Graphic Design
New York, NY
October 2005-present
Hirschhorn Young Graphics
New York, NY
March 2004-September 2005
Regan Campbell Ward
a division of McCann Erickson
New York, NY
November 2005-November 2006
Spiegel Brands Inc.
New York, NY
November 2006-November 2007
Pure Agency
New York, NY
November 2007-October 2008
mark.
a division of Avon Products, Inc.
New York, NY
October 2008-June 2009
Freelance Graphic Design
New York, NY
June 2009-January 2011
Matrix
a division of L’Oréal
New York, NY
February 2011-January 2012
wendyleedesign
January 2012-present
wendyleedesign.com
leewendydesign@gmail.com
2. Package Graphic Designer
Was a key designer involved in creating a new branding
strategy for the number one cosmetics company in the
mass market category
• Established new, unified design direction reflecting
company’s need for an urban, hipper image
• Blister card design was chosen from numerous competing
design bids both in-house and contract
• Designs include logos and packaging for face, nail,
eye and lip products
• Created new look for an entire teen-focused division
• Produced three dimensional comps for presentation
and launch consideration
• Worked in a highly demanding and fast-paced
atmosphere with a limited number of staff
Design and production of brochures, packaging, direct
mail, and advertising for companies including: Macy’s,
Brooklyn Public Library, Scholastic, Kurt S. Adler, L’Oréal,
Aéropostale, Self Magazine
Graphic Designer
Designed print media and web sites for clients who
include Steelcase, The American Craft Museum,
Continuum Publishing, Cornerstone Equity Investors,
CBS Cable and Pepsi Cola
• Developed conceptual strategy for clients
• Designed print media including brochures, corporate
identity, book covers and interiors, posters and media kits
as well as web sites
• Oversaw on-press production
• Executed all pre-press work including mechanical layout
and proof correction
Designed and executed book covers and interiors for
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Peter Lang
Publishing, Inc.
• Designs include academic books and Asian American
literature anthologies, including the winner of
The American Book Award
Associate Art Director
Sole assistant to nine art directors of a large magazine
publisher whose publications include Fit, American
Woman, Country Accents and Victorian Decorating
and Lifestyle
• Responsible for layout design of magazines with widely
varying formats
• Created full-page in-house as well as trade advertisements
• Executed mechanicals and color specifications in
preparation for magazine production
B.F.A. Graphic Design, minor in Art History, cum laude
• Golden Key National Honor Society
• Fine Arts Performance Award Scholarship
Advanced knowledge of Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress,
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Working knowledge of PageMaker, Freehand, Microsoft
PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Lotus Notes,
Adobe Acrobat
computer
skills
Bonnell Design Associates, Inc.
(merged with Chermayeff
Geismar, Inc.)
New York, NY
April 1997-November 1999
Freelance Graphic Design
New York, NY
June 1996-April 1997
GCR Publishing Group
New York, NY
January 1994–June 1996
education
Boston University
Boston, MA
May 1993
Freelance Graphic Design
New York, NY
November 1999-present
Maybelline New York
New York, NY
February 2003-March 2004