This document summarizes the career experience of Bradley Samuels, an award-winning art director and designer with over 10 years of experience. He has worked in magazine design, advertising design, and most recently as managing art director for a newspaper and lead clothing designer for an urban apparel company. His experience includes concept development, layout, production management, and ensuring quality execution of designed materials.

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Multiple Award Winning Senior Designer / Art Director :
Designed and art directed magazines, tabloids and promotional products (sometimes
simultaneously) that effectively generated revenue through brand growth, expansion
and dominance of the target audience. Problem-solver with an array of creative
skills and eye-catching design, flourished under fluctuating time and budgetary
constraints. Coordinated photo shoots, secured freelance photographers, illustrators,
models and production support, from concept to completion. Worked with printers
and production houses to ensure quality execution. Cool under pressure.
GREENSPUN MEDIA GROUP / NICHE MEDIA
IN BUSINESS LAS VEGAS • SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
SENIOR DESIGNER / ART DIRECTOR
Henderson, Nevada
2005-2010
Assistant Art Director / Designer :
Designed local and national client’s diversity advertising, print, collateral, direct
mail, web site design as well as TV spots from conception to completion. Serviced
Pitney Bowes, SEASAC, Nashville Electric, Comcast, TV One, Tennessee Lottery.
IBIS COMMUNICATIONS
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR / DESIGNER
Nashville,Tennessee
2003-2004
Award Winning Special Sections Advertising Designer:
Designed ads, special sections and inserts for corporate, retail and institutional
clients. Fast-paced, high volume atmosphere that required quick thinking and well
developed marketing, copy writing and design skills. Winner of TPASpecial Section
of the Year 2002 and 2003.
GANNETT PUBLICATIONS
THE TENNESSEAN
ADVERTISING DESIGNER
Nashville,Tennessee
2000-2003
Corporate Advertising Designer:
Designed advertising and promotional collateral for Gibson and Epiphone brands.
Responsible for signage and collateral at conventions and sponsored public events
nationwide.
GIBSON MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
CORPORATE ADVERTISING DESIGNER
Nashville,Tennessee
2000
Software: Adobe Creative
Suite, In Design, Photoshop,
Illustrator, Quark, Pagemaker,
Corel Draw, Lumena Design
Station, Flash
FREELANCE CLIENTS
• ESPN
• Illinois Bell/ Ameritech
• Luster Products
• Jim Beam
• PBS/Las Vegas
• Sally Beauty Supply
• Summit Laboratories
• White-Richards & Associates
• WGN
Education:
Luther South High
Columbia College B.A.
• Communication Design
• Television Production
2011-Presently
THE WINDY CITY WORD NEWSPAPER
MANAGING ART DIRECTOR/ADVERTISING DESIGNER
Chicago, Illinois
URBAN MYTH APPAREL
LEAD CLOTHING DESIGNER/ PROMOTIONS MANAGER
Chicago, Illinois
Designed clothing and accessories for this small but up and coming urban apparel
company. Also responsible for designing hip, cutting edge promotional and marketing
collateral. Taking concept designs into product development, determining materials,
equipment and securing vendors to produce the finished garment that matched
specifications. Using cutting edge Direct To Garment and dye sublimation technology,
inventing ways to monetize and maximize the capabilities of the machine and my
knowledge of print production, package design, marketing, advertising with the
nuances of fashion design and garment production.
AwardsEDUCATION/SKILLS
Tennessee Press
Association Awards
2001 (1), 2003 (2)
Nevada Press
Association Awards
2006, 2008
Responsibilities include layout and design of this weekly publication with a readership
of 70,000. Handle traffic, timelines and deadlines with various content vendors.
Design advertisng and promotional materials for this small but vibrant publisher.
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C A R E E R O B J E C T I V E :

2. My name is Bradley Samuels and I am a talented, Nevada Press and Ten-
nessee Press Association’s Award winning Art Director/ Senior Designer,
presently residing in Chicago. I offer compelling, creative projects efficiently
completed and done well by managing all the responsibilities that accompany
successful, provocative design. I am efficient, organized and have designed
for corporations from all over the country as well as lucrative entrepreneurial
endeavors. This is why I am interested in an opportunity to secure your Pack-
age Designer position. I am equipped with a wide range of creative experi-
ence, from logo identity, branding, catalogs signage, illustration, international
package design, and state of art apparel design. My skills include ideation/
conceptual execution of website, digital design and magazine page layouts,
publication design and production, inserts, advertising, brochures, sales sheets
and point of purchase display.
I have 10+ years designing effective solutions for print industries, advertising
agencies, and various corporate marketing collateral with a skill spectrum that
includes package design, the web, display and apparel. Delivering quality
communication design, creatively. I’ve interacted on various levels with cor-
porate media entities to individual entrepreneurs including Spanish-language
publications. Taking all projects/publications from concept to completion,
that includes creative planning, design layout execution, talent/vendor se-
lection, photo shoot coordination and printing process supervision, in some
cases shooting the photography and retouching it myself. Open, flexible and
comfortable in fast paced and multi-tiered environment. Always motivated
to bring quality, stimulating visuals. Expertise in design software including
Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator) MS Office Word,
Powerpoint, Acrobat Pro, Quark Corel Draw, Lumena Design, Some HTML,
CSS, Dreamweaver and Flash familiarity. Resume and samples attached. I
have many more examples if you need to see them.
Thank you for your consideration.
Bradley A. Samuels
312-912-3590
imhotep527@yahoo.com
online portfolio: http://www.bleidu.com/Samuels/
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3. RECENT PUBLISHED SAMPLES
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