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JOHN S. PENNEY
139 Fulton St., Suite 1006 New York, NY 10038 212-964-4013 penney@inch.com www.inch.com/~penney E X P E R I E N C E August 1996 to present Graphic Artist at New York Now (on-line magazine about New York City at www.nynow.com.) Responsible for all the day-to-day design needs of a rapidly growing Web site, include art direction, design and layout of all areas of the NYNOW site; from concept to Web-ready graphics.
SECTIONS-For
special sections of the site I created identity, title, navigation
and supplemental graphics and the HTML layout for the whole section.
FEATURE STORIES-For
these, I created front-page
graphics, illustrations, graphic heads and the HTML layouts.
IDENTITY GRAPHICS-I
created identity, concept and graphics for various uses on the
NYNOW site.
PICTURE EDITOR-I
select, crop, color-correct, compress, index and layout the photos
for NYNOW.
SOFTWARE DESIGN-I
planned the structure of an upcoming CGI scripted application
to write HTML pages.
1994 to present
I am currently desigining a major Web site of 45 pages for the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass. (The beta version is at: www.inch.com/~penney/museum) My responsibilities include: CONSULTATION-I visited the museum and talked with the director and the curators to establish a direction and focus for the Web site. ART DIRECTION-I art directed the site and created the museum logo and all the other graphic elements. TEXT-I researched and wrote the text for the site's "Story of Whaling" section. IMAGES-I selected and manipulated the images that were taken primarily from the museum collection. Each was scanned, sharpened, color corrected, sized and compressed using Photoshop. PAGE LAYOUT-The pages were laid out in HTML with extensive use of tables.
SERVER-I
negotiated with the Internet Service Provider to register the
domain name and to receive a favorable rate for the museum.
Other graphic arts jobs include fundraising
posters for The Early Childhood Center in Manhattan and a logo
for Hovey Archival Research, also in Manhattan. In addition, I
have experience in CAD drawing.
Represented by Z Gallery, SoHo, N.Y.
One-person exhibitions in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989.
School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y. Studies in graphic design with John Rea, Skip Sorvino and Scott Wadler.
BFA in Painting, Boston University
School for the Arts, Boston.
MacOS, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, DOS.
Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand,
Debabelizer, BBEdit, Gifbuilder, Director 5, Quark, Premiere and
3D Studio. |