Experience

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  Mike Fender Design

  • Design Director
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  Mike Fender Design

  • Design Director

    • Sep 2006 - Present

    Comprehensive design and research services, specializing in book publishing and title brandingStrategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.

  • Design and Production Director

    • Sep 2006 - Present

    A knock-out book and cover design firm, ready to do business with you to make your self-published book stand out in all markets. Have marketing people standing by to help with each project.

  • Designer, Art Director, Owner

    • Jan 2006 - Present

    Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue.• Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development.• Advising new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures

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  Harvard Business School Publishing

  • Design Director

    • Nov 1994 - Sep 2006

    I worked as Art Director and Design Director in collaboration with marketing and editorial directors to increase presence in trade book marketplace, and to increase sales of HBS Books from a gross of less than 1 million in '94, to 24 million in 2006. Worked to professionalize the look of the ...

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  Harvard University Press

  • Book Designer

    • 1975 - 1979

    I had the pleasure of working with Susan Hayes, John Walsh, Marianne Perlak, Susan Boehmer, Aida Donald, Arthur Rosenthal as I developed my talents as a book and jacket designer.