Experience

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  Ken the Designer

  • Texas, United States

  • Senior Creative Director

    • Jan 1985 - Present
    • Texas, United States

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  Graphic Designer for Conventions Exhibits and Trade Shows

  • Senior Art Director

    • Sep 1995 - Present

    Creating Award Winning Designs to Cost Effective Communicate With Your Clientele and Prospects

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  Exhibit Corp / Used Booths.com

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Trade Show and Exhibit Designer

    • Jun 2006 - Present
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    I have successfully designed numerous designs for their trade show exhibitor clientele while fulfilling their needs to design and graphic solutions so that they may successfully and cost effectively communicate with their clients.I provide online proofing from the concept to the print ready proof. Once the proofs are approved I upload the, directly to the printer with the correct color profiles and exact resolution and dimensions required to produce Museum Quality graphics and exhibits.Our are estimate and online proofing services have and will continually be are offered at no charge.

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  Ken The Designer / 5th Avenue Designers

  • International

  • Senior Art Director

    • May 2006 - Present
    • International

    I concurrently design for for many exhibit house and display companies to provide award winning graphics with museum quality prints.

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  All Pro Displays & Graphics

  • Orange County, California Area, Los Angeles County, CA, Las Vegas, NV

  • Senior Art Director

    • Jan 2006 - Present
    • Orange County, California Area, Los Angeles County, CA, Las Vegas, NV

    I am a graphic designer that started my career in the 1970's a photographer which lead me in to airbrushing photos and with the advent of computers I advanced my skills into digital graphic design.During this course of development I have designed many building and vehicle wraps for convention centers, including clients like Sony, Apple and also created numerous designs for trade show exhibitors from banner stands to large island exhibits.

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  Irvine Photographics

  • Irvine, CA

  • Graphics Digital Consultant

    • Jul 1989 - Dec 2005
    • Irvine, CA

    I accepted and preflighted all digital print orders to insure excellent print quality,In doing so I recommended proven graphic solutions and corrected files as needed. My efforts resulted in escellent display and exhibit results for companies like and including, Apple, Sony The Gap, Absolute Exhibits etc.

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  Super Color Digital, LLC

  • Orange County, California Area

  • Graphic Designer and Preflight Artist

    • Jan 1997 - Sep 2000
    • Orange County, California Area

    I color corrected files and corrected them to meet the unique requirements for the grand format print industry to print everything small 11" x 17" spreads to graphically wrapping the front of of the the LA Convention Center for the Sony E-3 show and very large building graphics to exhibit on the face of the Figueroa hotels in Los Angeles.

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  Kalt Corporation

  • Santa Monica, CA

  • Senior Marketing Specialist

    • Feb 1979 - Jul 1984
    • Santa Monica, CA

    I began on the order desk and with the coordination of the the sales manager I rapidly advanced to fulfill the positions of Corporate Photographer, Advertising Designer and I was responsible for photography, layout and publication of our 360 page catalog. While fulfilling these responsibilities I also created the ability to utilize our existing IBM 400 system to input orders to also productively interface with purchasing and customer service. This change eliminated the order tracking and backlog.

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  Wilson's Photo

  • Ontario, Ca

  • Sales Manager

    • Sep 1976 - Feb 1978
    • Ontario, Ca

    I began as a sales manager manger while also successfully taking on all marketing and advertising while fulfilling the photographic needs of our clients which included Sunkist, Boeing, and many more.During this time I also continued the on location photography classes and developed sponsors including Pentax, Polaroid, Hoya, Tiffen and many more.

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  Gordon Ayers Camera

  • Ontario, CA

  • Salesman and Photography Teacher

    • Feb 1973 - Sep 1976
    • Ontario, CA

    I excelled to a top camera sales person rapidly and developed on location photography classes.