Michael Church

Fishing Lounge Design is my professional portfolio site. I’ve been a Graphic Designer for many years and hold a degree in Fine Arts from San Diego State University. The following is my career history:

Experience

2007-Present, Fishing Lounge Design
Independent Consultant

• Owner and Designer
• Create all creative material
• Specializing in Web, User Interface, Corporate Identity, and Print design

2000-2007, Silicon Space, Inc. San Diego, CA
Creative Director

• Responsible for the design, development and implementation of corporate branding standards including company produced products
• Oversee the design of all corporate marketing materials and efforts
• Define, develop and oversee the direction of all User Interface applications for SSI products
• Build strong collaborative relationships with clients and team
• Provide strategic and sustainable aesthetic value to products, applications, and services
• Employ user-centered design processes that ensure information is useful and usable resulting in a higher project success rate
• Architected and developed projects for fortune 1000 companies such Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, and Union Bank of California
• Develop high-level design solutions for clients and projects as needed

1997–2000 Webster Design San Diego, CA
Graphic Designer/Webmaster

• Developed creative marketing collateral
• Translated complex concepts into convincing and compelling visualizations
• Defined and developed the Interactive Design area. This resulted in a new corporate service offering and increased profitability
• Created corporate identity systems such as logo and type mark, color brochures, and promotional items, etc.
• Manipulated images, style photos, provided art direction and acquired photos
• Created illustrations through drawing, cartooning, digital illustration, and illustration acquisition

1994–1997 National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
Visual Presentation Specialist

• Responsible for the visual presentation of four permanent sales shops and various exhibition sales shops
• Created visual merchandise displays throughout the shops
• Responsible for designing and creating store decorations during the holiday season
• Designed and coordinated special exhibition shops

1992–1994 San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA
Publications and Sales

• Received and processed incoming museum store merchandise
• Interacted with various merchandise vendors on a daily basis
• Designed and created merchandise promotional displays

1989–1992 Self Employed San Diego, CA
Graphic Designer

• Identified the relevant opportunities for clients within their marketplace
• Created visual language systems: logo and type mark, typography, etc.
• Developed various promotional products for screen printing: t-shirts, mugs, hats, etc.

1988–1989 Aaron Brothers Art Marts San Diego, CA
Assistant Manager

• Supervised store personnel and responsible for customer satisfaction
• Designed and developed various feature displays for promotional merchandise

1982–1988 United States Marine Corps
Unit Diary Chief

• Responsible for the supervision, safety and welfare of subordinate personnel
• Primary duties included the timely processing of information to Marine Corps Finance Center
• Other duties included general administration activities

1982–1982 Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN
Graphic Designer

• Designed and produced custom presentation materials for university faculty
• Responsible for creating transparencies, signs, film strips, illustrations and photo mountings

Education

December 1992 San Diego State University San Diego, CA

• Bachelor of Arts in Applied Arts and Sciences
• Major in Fine Arts (Emphasis in Painting, Printmaking and Photography)

Applications

Macintosh and PC platforms, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premier, After Effects, Encore, Streamline, Flash, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, QuarkExpress

Programming Language

HTML, XHTML, CSS, a little JavaScript, a little PHP