Douglas Lemon Design
EXPERIENCE

Douglas Lemon Design
New York City
June 2001 through the present
Working as a freelance Art Director/Designer.
Responsible for concept, design, flash animations and HTML programming of online initiatives for clients such as Comedy Central, Tommy Hilfiger, Merrill Lynch, W Hotels, Maybelline New York, TOA Technologies, Smith & Nephew, eSylvan, Virgin Mobile, Ruese.com, Hodes Shaw Bodeman Gluck, New Jersey Reads, University Hostpital - Newark, Coldwell Banker, SymphonySuites, NIA, Comcast, Majland - NYC, and JazzReach.org.

Contracted for in-house assignments from such agencies/companies as: Organic, Inc., Zentropy Partners, Merrill Lynch, Tribal DDB & Domani Studios

Kabel US LLC
New York City
June 2000 through April 2001
Employed as an Art Director.
Kabel US is a daughter company of former employer, Kabel New Media AG. Responsible for creative direction, including layout, concept and UI for Internet initiatives for high profile clients such as Sony and Showtime. Responsible for developing corporate identity for Kabel US and insuring proper use by employees of Kabel US (for both off and online purposes). Acted as liaison between the Executive Creative Director of Kabel New Media, Hamburg and Kabel US for issues regarding corporate identity standards of both Kabel US and Kabel AG and how they functioned together. Responsible for creative direction, layout and implementation of online advertising initiatives including Unicast and Flash technologies. Management and direction of designers.

Kabel New Media AG
Hamburg, Germany
November 1997 through May 2000
Employed as an Art Director in a leading German New Media company.
Working within a team of up to 25 people including concept, marketing, editorial, technical and screen design departments. Responsible for design direction and implementation of highly visited web sites. Included in decisions for the general direction and concept of high profile web sites. Responsible of bringing high profile companies branding on to the web. Monitoring quality of said web sites. Management and direction of screen designers. Coordination of design department and interface between other departments. Client contact. Design and conception for potential customers sponsor sites. Creating specifications (including research) for online advertising possibilities. HTML programming and production of templates for a JAVA based editorial system.

Multimedia Design Consulting
Bremen, Germany
April 1997 through November 1997
Employed as a Screen Designer.
Duties include concept and ideation, design, production and computer programming. At MDC, I was responsible for all facets of the design process; from ideation to a final produced piece. This also includes programming such as HTML and Lingo.

Eaton & Associates
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
August 1996 through April 1997
Employed in an internship position.
Duties include Graphic Design and production work. Responsibilities vary from concept and ideation, typesetting, copywriting, art directing, press checks, layout and computer production.

EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin-Stout
Menomonie, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design
1996

Fachhochschule Hildesheim/Holzminden
Hildesheim, Germany
Exchange program in Graphic Design.
October 1995through June 1996

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona
General coursework
August 1989through May 1990

COMPUTER

Experience with BBEdit, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXpress, Flash MX 2004, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, MicrosoftWord, Dreamweaver, Basic use HTML, CSS and System 10.0for the Macintosh.

AWARDS

Published works in Annual Multimedia Yearbook 2001, Werner Lippert.
Web Awards 1998: Received "Standard of Excellence". "The WebAwards provides web professionals recognition and validation for their outstanding work."
The New York Festivals 1998: Received Finalist Certificate for Web Site Design
Also my work has been selected in the annual Best of Design show at University of Wisconsin-Stout 1994, 1995 and 1996.