max singer
communications arts and design
my forté is meeting creative and intellectual challenges
I am an award-winning designer/artist with an impressive mix of skills and expertise and a 20-plus-year track record of imagining, designing, and producing an a–z of effective and creative print and digital communications. Beyond my extensive work experience, superb technical skills, and broad general knowledge, I possess a unique educational background: engineering at a prestigious technical institute, a dual B.S. in business and honors humanities, and graduate study in communications and film.
significant accomplishments
INTERNET | CORPORATE project managed, design directed, and produced at&t and pfizer’s online annual reports, two of fortune 500’s earliest web-based publications
INTERACTIVE | HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM designed and developed wheretalks interactive touch-screen tourist kiosk; wrote and produced its “ken burns-style” video features
DESIGN DIRECTION | MEDIA AND PUBLISHING redesigned the times-picayune of new orleans; created, hired, and managed art department, designed daily section covers, weekly entertainment guide, and weekly op-ed illustration
CONCEPTS AND COPY | EDUCATION AND THE ARTS conceived the strategic theme and wrote the text for the museum of the history of polish jews and for the yale school of environmental studies capital campaigns
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | PHILANTHROPY AND EDUCATION designed custom-fabricated high tech displays for pace university 100th anniversary, project hope 50th anniversary world tour, and the city college of new york alumni wall of fame
my projects and skills
CLIENTS/END-USERS
att • the city college of new york • friends of the world food program • helen keller international • jazz at lincoln center • the juilliard school • life magazine • the newport jazz festival • pfizer • project hope • museum of the history of polish jews • the soros foundation • worth magazine
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS
advertising • direct mail • annual reports • capabilities brochures • capital campaigns • branding & identity • newspapers and magazines • digital illustration • event graphics • environmental graphics / exhibits • information design • websites & interactive
SKILLS/ RESPONSIBILITIES
design and design direction • strategic concepts • project management • copy • illustration • art direction • information graphics • website design • production • scripting and storyboards
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
indesign • go-live • dreamweaver • illustrator • photoshop • image-ready • quicktime • keynote • imovie • msword • audio-video production, • ftp /site management, • acrobat interactive • traditional/digital printing
work history
MOST RECENT
SENIOR DESIGN CONSULTANT [10/2002 TO 6/2010]
jessica weber design marketing and graphics for the not-for-profit sector
PRIOR
DESIGN DIRECTOR WEB PRODUCER
conceptual communications fortune 500s annual report design
DESIGN DIRECTOR,SPECIAL PROJECTS, INTERACTIVE PRODUCER
where magazine new orleans tourist and event publications
SENIOR DESIGNER
book-of-the-month club book publishing and marketing
CREATIVE DIRECTOR/OWNER
the maxyfactory freelance design illustration
ASSOCIATED ILLUSTRATOR AND DESIGNER
push pin studios world-famous art studio
DESIGN DIRECTOR
the times-picayune daily newspaper new orleans
also noteworthy
ILLUSTRATION • nationally recognized illustrator, associated with the world-famous push-pin studio • society of illustrators: the new illustration
POLITICAL SATIRE & CARTOONS • new york newsday • homefront comix [9/11] • editor/publisher
scurrilousrag.com e-zine
ARTIST • exhibiting painter and photographer
PRO BONO • created and produced website
aidbeam.com for post-katrina relief • participant: artists for alzheimers
TEACHING • school of visual arts cartooning • pratt institute senior portfolio • annenberg school of communications film history
EDUCATION • annenberg school of communications / mfa program / communications and film • la salle college / business & liberal arts [double major] b.s., magna cum laude • stevens institute of technology / engineering
links
projects, portfolio and resumés:
www.maxyfactory.com/design/
latest design projects:
MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS:
www.mhpjnac.org NYCFLASH:
www.nycflash.com photography website:
www.maxsinger.com facebook
www.facebook.com/theartistmaxy
