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Laura Saravia
, United States New York New York
 
Tel: 3473254883
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Brief Summary
Miss Laura Saravia has over 11 years of graphic design experience in print, identity, and interactive design. Seven solid years of management experience. In her current role as the hands-on art director, with previous experience ranging from sports and corporate to accessories and publishing, she turned a bland four cube workstation to an award-winning design studio. Working in  high-demand and tight deadline environments, she comes with expert knowledge in Adobe CS and proficient in motion and web programs as well as refined studio skills. Responsibilities have included managing and sourcing designers, photographers, design production, supervising print press checks and video shoots, all while building strong relationships with a broad range of contributors and stakeholders. Working directly with creatives, marketing, in-house & outside vendors, agencies and other inter-company departments to produce high quality client presentations, advertising and branding campaigns. Additionally, she creates and manages art & music shows in New York City and South Florida.
Clients
Time Warner
Scholastic
Showtime

NY Yankees
NY Knicks
NY Rangers
NY Liberty
Harford WolfPack
MSG Boxing
Topps

Professional Experience
EXPERIENCE

MAR 2004 – PRESENT

GLOBAL MEDIA GROUP, TIME WARNER
Art Director & Senior

Built and manage the in-house creative studio for integrated marketing group as hands-on
art director producing advertising, marketing and branding campaigns, pitches and presentations.
Lead designer for Time Warner corporate and other divisions. Responsibilities include ideation,
planning, sourcing and managing freelancers, print vendors, photographers, agencies and related talent.
SAMPLE CLIENTS: TIME inc., FORTUNE, Cadillac, P&G, Pepsi, Unilever and AMEX
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FEB 2003 – MAR 2004

SCHOLASTIC, INC.
Art Director & Senior Designer

Contract designer for advertorials, special inserts, collateral, awards materials, packaging, POP design (for trade show and Scholastic Store), presentations and other design projects for Parent & Child and Early Childhood Today Magazines.
CLIENTS: Disney, The Wiggles, Lipton, Purell, Polaroid, Chuck-E-Cheese and Andersen Windows.
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SEPT 2002 – FEB 2003

GOODSPEED & ASSOCIATES (NOW CATCH 22)
Senior Designer

Staff designer creating advertising, branding, interactive, collateral and packaging.
SAMPLE CLIENTS: NY Yankees, Oxford Health, HIFF, NY Toy Fair, Wal-Mart, QVC, NFL,Topps and Showtime Networks Original Movies.
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FEB 2000 – APR 2001

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Junior Art Director & Designer

Designed various marketing and advertising materials for divisions of MSG Corporate, MSG Network, Radio City Entertainment, Rangers, Knicks, Liberty, MSG Boxing, Hartford Civic Center, Hartford Wolf Pack, and the Cheering for Children Foundation.
SAMPLE CLIENTS: AMEX, Tiffany & Co., The Wiz, Budweiser, HBO, Nike, amongst other clients.
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JUL 1999 – FEB 2000/APR 2001 – Sept 2002

BENOIT, TWOMEY & PARTNERS
Junior Art Director & Designer

Designer on web and print projects creating web sites, advertising, packaging and collateral.
SAMPLE CLIENTS: Panasonic, Audrey Cohen College, Mobile Coyote Wireless Systems, Vividot Photographic Technology and Dell Computers.
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APR 1999 – JUL 1999

STUDIO A
Junior Web Designer

Web production and compiling in Dreamweaver.
SAMPLE CLIENTS: Streetscout navigational web site, Woodstock Online Art Exhibit for Art-eX, and Spycat’s fashion-sourcing site.
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MAR 1999 – PRESENT

CONTRACT DESIGNER | Production & Design

ARTISAN – Senior Designer
SAMPLE CLIENTS: USA Networks, Kraftworks, Food Group, Dimassimo Branding, theknot.com and The Grand Hotel.
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CREATIVE NETWORK SOLUTIONS – Print Designer & Graphic Artist
SAMPLE CLIENTS: Sony Music, Barnes & Noble, Paine Webber, Ernst & Young, NY Life, Zurich Financial Group.
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DESIGN BY SKAFFLES – Product Designer & Graphic Artist
Product designs and mechanicals, product catalog, trade show and POP.
SAMPLE CLIENTS: Barbie, Tootsie, Care Bear, Nestle and DBS.
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CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS - Editorial Production
Allure and Self magazines
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WILLIAM GREENBERG JR. DESSERTS
Website, photography and copywriting
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FORT GREENE ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL
Website and copywriting
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EDUCATION

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1995 – 1999

PRATT INSTITUTE | Communication Design & Advertising Art Direction, BFA

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1999 – Present

INDEPENDENT | Silk screening and letterpress
X KNOWLEDGE

PRINT – Expert InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, MS Office, Prezi and Keynote
INTERACTIVE – Intermediate HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, WordPress and Joomla.
MOTION – Basic After Effects, Final Cut Pro and QuickTime.
SOCIAL – Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Smart phone and iPad apps.


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