Bruce I. Brachman Graphic Designer
Education	Syracuse University BFA - Computer Graphics/General Art – 1977-1980 Carnegie-Mellon - Mathematics Major 1975-1977

Work Experience

8/2004-10/2009 Chance Productions, Inc. Art Director/Graphic Designer	Created all artwork at Chance Productions. Including finished saleable product, product development, office graphics, buyer presentations, new product concepts. Created all logo and branding, produced Disney licensed storybooks, invented a new coloring marker (patent-pending), illustrated all velvet poster artwork, created new process for coloring posters (patent-pending), physical mockup packages for retail planograms, retail sales presentations to buyers, virtual 3-D package design, package design, product and asset photography.
10/2003-8/2004 Jaks Pacific Graphic Designer	In-house graphic designer for East Coast satellite office. Primary responsibility; creating all support materials for DRTV product commercials. Created storyboards and demonstration materials. Additional duties; design and illustrate children’s coloring products; specifically velvet coloring posters and product instructions.
12/2000 - 06/2003 P&M Products/ Color Workshop Graphic Designer	Responsible for in-house graphic design projects: creating graphics for product package design, product design, product photography, sample artwork, product project development, television props, business collateral materials, writing and illustrating instructions, sales collateral materials, signage and other promotional materials. Created product logos, packaging; written and illustrated product instructions; illustrated corporate mascot appearing on all packaging; created crafting articles for magazines; created props and materials for television commercials; invented adult crafting tool as seen on QVC; created mockups for retail display; demonstrated products at trade shows.
3/1999 – 12/2000 Visual Software Solutions, Inc. Media Designer	Designed and executed all graphic design for custom software, database-driven web sites, e-commerce web sites, Flash and gif animations, banner ads. Other responsibilities included designing and executing all promotional materials for Visual Software Solutions. Other projects, in addition to web design, included logo and corporate identity creation and software packaging designs
2/1980 - 3/1999 Interactive Graphics, Inc. Artist	Over 19 years of business presentation design and implementation, including: 35 mm slide presentations; overhead transparencies; technical and character illustration; text book illustration; multimedia design, preparation, programming and implementation; scanning and retouching photographs; creative image manipulation; design corporate identity graphics; logo and trademark design; newsletter design and implementation; internet web site design, programming and implementation; exhibit poster design.
technical skills	Design Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, Painter, InDesign, Dreamweaver Computer Platforms: Windows, Macintosh Construction: Product Mockups, Paper/Card Modeling Photography: Digital and Traditional Photography
Traditional arts	Pencil, Pen and Ink, Ceramics, Pastel, Watercolor, Airbrush, Acrylics, Gouache, Colored Pencil, Sculpture, Paper Technology, Animation, General Crafts.
independent projects	- Promotional materials for Philadelphia-based sports radio station. (610-WIP Sportsradio) Various projects include: Design of promotional t-shirts, design of Wing Bowl event logo, design of promotional key chain fobs, design of give-away contest scratch-off tickets, design of promotional coffee mugs, redesign of remote broadcast banners. - Designed and implemented logo for WPHT 1210 AM Talk Radio. - Designed book for Big Daddy Graham, ‘Last Call’. Designed book layout and cover. - Designed book cover for local sports-talk host’s book ‘The Transaction’.