William Holmes:
CLASS OF 1975
Mckell High SchoolClass of 1975
South shore, KY
La Habra High SchoolClass of 1976
La habra, CA
Greenup County High SchoolClass of 1975
Greenup, KY
Wheelersburg High SchoolClass of 1975
Wheelersburg, OH
Sunshine Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
South shore, KY
William's Story
School
I grew up in South Shore, Kentucky (just across the Ohio River from Portsmouth, Ohio) I attended Sunshine Elementary School where my father was principal. I attended McKell High School Freshman year until our three community high schools (Mckell, Wurtland and Greenup High) were combined into what is known today as Greenup County High School. I created the Musketeer on the Gym wall the first year the high school was opened. My mother taught English, Latin and Shakespeare at Greenup County High. I was interested in all aspects of cartooning and art. I loved creating posters and banners inwhich parallels what I am doing today: mainly posters and banners and inhouse promos for our printing company. I am more actively sharing photos on F a c e b o o k . c o m . just search my name.
College
Education: The Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio 1975-79
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Majoring in Advertising Design
Minoring in Package Design
Achievements:
Merit award from the Braun Packaging Corporation 1978.
Award from The Liquid-Box Corporation 1978 for two Christmas Card concept designs.
Workplace
My work experience is as follows:
May 2005-Present: VERTIS INC. - APS Division (Dayton, OH)
Position: On-Site Production Artist for a Grocery Chain. Design & layout Grocery Inserts and Advertisements.
July 1997-May 2005: VERTIS INC. (formerly: Treasure Chest Advertising) (Columbus, OH)
Position: Prepress Tech / Graphic Design Specialist responsible for Graphic Design of banners, brochures and flyers and problem-solving computer software issues; electronic imposition and film output utilitizing an Agfa Avantra 30 SelectSet; using Quarkxpress, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Multi-Ad Creator, Freehand and Photoshop. AGFA DuoScan Desktop scanner used for b/w & 4-color photos and lineart. Photoshop manipulations and color corrections for clients. Creation of PDF files through Postscript > Acrobat Distiller > Exchange; imposition of files by Computer-to-plate technology (PREPS software).
In-House Layout and Graphic Designer for newspaper publications, mailers, ads.
July 1996-July 1997: Bindery & Specialties (Plain City, OH)
Position: Daytime Prepress Computer Operator/ Graphic Designer; responsible for client film and
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using Quarkxpress, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Freehand and Photoshop. AGFA DuoScan Desktop scanner used for b/w & 4-color photos and lineart. Linotronic 260 film and paper output.
Design brochures, annual reports, magazines, etc.
July 1994-March 1996: Baesman Printing Corporation (Columbus, OH)
Position: NightShift Prepress Computer Operator; responsible for client film output using Quarkxpress, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Freehand and trapping colors with Island Trapper software. Photoshop work involving clipping paths and color corrections. 4-color scanning with a Screen DTS Scanner. AccuSet 1000 film output. Design brochures and various flyers.
May 1990-May 1994: Freelance Graphic Designer(Port St. Lucie, FL)Freelance Design Artist using Quarkxpress, Pagemaker, Illustrator, Freehand, Photoshop. Brochure, newspaper, logo design.
July 1991-Janurary 1992: The Fort Pierce Tribune Newspaper (Ft. Pierce, FL)
Position: Advertising Department Artist
February 1992-January 1993: Sunburst Advertising Agency (Port St. Lucie,FL)
Position: Freelance Computer Advertising Design
Designed catalogs, brochures and magazine ads.
February 1993-May 1993: Graphics Illustrated (Rivera Beach,FL)
Position: Prep-house - worked with a Colorpoint, Linotronic and Selectset Imaging printer; prepared client's desktop work for colorbreaks, trappings and overall preprint preparations.
February 1983-April 1990: Thoroughbred Publishers, Inc. (Lexington, KY)
Position: Editorial/Advertising Designer/ Production Mgr.
Layout/Design and supervisor over art department time schedules for weekly 200 page 5-color journal The Thoroughbred Record. Editorial and advertising layouts; dummied magazine weekly for editorial, advertising and art departments, out-of-house stripping company and printer. Scheduled nightly signature forms for printer and checked colorkey signatures.
Publication sold out to NY based company.
August 1979-January 1983: Times Media Publications, Inc. (Lexington,KY)
Position: Art Director/Designer
Layout and design (conventional mechanicals for all production work) for various regional publications: Lexington Times Newspaper Tabloid, Lifestyle Apartment Guide, Bluegrass Woman Magazine, Bluegrass Feature Magazine.
Publications went out of business
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