Steven Guy Young
Graphic Designer / Illustrator / Copywriter
21 Willow Road, #46
Menlo Park, CA
650-324-3780 (H)
408-348-8296 (C)
email: stevenguyyoung@yahoo.com
EXCEPTIONALLY VERSATILE: All the skills of a whole creative department: please review my online portfolio.
Writer: Journalism degree and years of ad agency
experience as copywriter and creative group leader.
Art Director: Experience directing illustrators and
photo shoots, both location and studio.
Graphic Designer: Print Ads, Catalogs & Brochures, Annual and Interim Reports, Direct Mail programs, Power Point Presentations and Websites.
Illustrator: Both Mac (Photoshop, FreeHand and
Painter) and conventional media; cartoons and
storyboards in ink, marker and digital.
Print Production Manager: Significant experience
supervising agency print production departments:
estimating, negotiating, press checking.
SOFTWARE SKILLSET:
Both Macintosh and Windows
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe InDesign CS3
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Adobe GoLive CS
PageMaker 6.5
Microsoft Word
PowerPoint
FrontPage
EXPERIENCE
2008 - 2010
Advanced Micro Devices / ATI Unit
Sunnyvale, CA
Graphic Designer
Replaced two advertising agencies previously used by the workgroup. Extremely varied position supporting ATI's Worldwide Workstation Graphics Advertising Director and his workgroup, designing and producing technical publications, brochures, white papers, case studies PowerPoint presentations, packaging, labeling and various promotional materials, all fitting within AMD's well-defined corporate brand standards. I was also tasked with uploading the print materials I designed to various internal servers and websites, and developing and maintaining the group's extensive arwork archives. The position also called for design of websites, banners and graphics and preparation of product photography for print, PowerPoint and Web in addition to maintaining up-to-date product photography files. Speed and accuracy attracted assignments from AMD units in Canada, Asia and Europe in addition to the original workgroup.
2006 - 2008
Visa International Commercial
Foster City, CA
Graphic Designer
Graphic designer reporting to Visa Director of Global Communications in designing and producing a wide range of graphic design assignments in collaboration with Visa personnel at the VP level and above. Assignments involve brochures, white papers, web page designs, CDs, PowerPoint presentations, display graphics, document templates for Visa personnel, and displays and environmental graphics for Visa international forums and conferences. This is a particularly demanding design environment because all projects must adhere to Visa's international brand standards, which emanate from my working group. Calls not only for advanced skills in the Adobe Creative Suite but also significant production expertise including coordinating projects with vendors, writing schedules and estimates and handling press checks.
4/2000 - 2006
Steven Guy Young Graphic Design
Menlo Park, CA
Principal Designer
Graphic designer/copywriter serving clients in medical technology, philanthropy, manufacturing and real estate. Extensive experience in Silicon Valley residential real estate with a wide range of skills including shooting and retouching digital photographs, creating illustrations, writing copy, and designing and producing ads for newspaper and magazine, brochures, direct mailers, Power Point presentations and web sites. Also direct photographers and staging designers. Direct contact with both clients and vendors.
8/1992 - 4/2000
Young At Art, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
Principal Designer
Full service creative graphic design studio providing award winning concept, copy, illustration, art direction, photo design, graphic design and print production management to a variety of scientific, high tech, consumer and business-to-business accounts.
6/1985 - 8/1992
Jordan Associates Advertising/Communications
Oklahoma City
Vice President/Associate Creative Director
4A's Advertising Agency, $25M billings. Supervision of Photography and Production Art Departments with responsibility for personnel and profitability. Also Associate Creative Director and Senior Art Director, including art direction, photo direction,
graphic design and illustration for newspaper and magazine ads, annual reports, brochures, catalogs, direct mail programs, storyboards, trade show displays, point of purchase for industrial, consumer and business-to-business accounts.
2/1981 - 6/1985
Jordan Associates Advertising/Communications
Oklahoma City
Production Manager/Senior Art Director
Simultaneously served as Production Manager and Senior Art Director.
Production Manager: organized the Print Production Department, including systems for cataloging job information and art. Supervised a staff of five; also responsible for dealing with all print suppliers. Handled or supervised all estimates, schedules, press checks and proof approvals for 5 art directors including myself.
Senior Art Director: concept, copy and design for newspaper and magazine ads, annual reports, brochures, direct mail, trade show displays and point of purchase for financial, industrial and consumer accounts.
EDUCATION
The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
B.A. Journalism/Advertising
AFFILIATIONS
National Association of Photoshop Professionals
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Oklahoma City - President & Vice President
ACHIEVEMENTS & ACTIVITIES
Winner of over 70 local and regional Addy Awards.
Published in Adweek Magazine and Ad Age.
Member of University Scholars program while at The University of Oklahoma
Adjunct Instructor in Advertising Design, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts
Guest lecturer at The University of Oklahoma and
University of Central Oklahoma
Created and produced pro bono illustrations,
brochures, T-shirts and posters for cultural and arts events, including Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts, Opening Night New Year's Eve event and Red Earth Native American cultural celebration
Also created fund-raising posters and print ads for
the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian