fhc
An old image, a new image and a stock image combine to make a unique cover. Soft cover, 198 pages, 8.5" x 5.5". Kindle and epub versions.
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Taos Mountain
The nonprofit Poet's House Trust wanted an elegant showcase for the art and poetry of Robert Sund and needed expert guidance through the design, production and printing process. Case bound, 112 pages, color reproductions throughout, 7.5" x11.25".
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San Juan Classics
This Northwest favorite is now in its 10th printing. Soft cover, 294 pages, color tip ins between signatures, 7"x 9".
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Skagit Valley Fare
The design of cookbooks, like all working manuals, offers a great opportunity to join identity and aesthetics to practicality - they must delight and entertain yet function perfectly. More than good typography is required. Text, instructions and lists of ingredients must be organized and arranged to be clear and accessible. Soft cover, 222 pages, color tip ins between signatures, 7" x10".
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Men In Black
The cover is a composite of new, old and stock photos. Soft cover, 196 pages, 6"x9".
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Mothman Photographer II
The intricate and consistent typographic design helps the reader quickly recognize the sudden shifts from radio transcripts of several voices to the author's asides, to quotes and explanations. Soft cover, 448 pages, 6"x9".
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MMPIII
Third in a series. The intricate and consistent typograhic design helps the reader quickly recognize the sudden shifts from radio transcripts of several voices to the author's asides, to quotes and explanations. Soft cover, 448 pages, 6"x9".
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Silver Bridge
The best thematic way to conceal the artifacts and low resolution of the principle image for this book cover was to introduce color and scanlines to suggest the enlargement of a television screen image. 6"x9".
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Fidalgo
Fidalgo Elementary pioneered an innovative educational program and asked me to fashion a report from their manuscript, data and collection of photographs.
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Clearsnap
Clearsnap's first bound catalog was designed and produced on a very tight timeline. I provided all product photography and image enhancement with the exception of the cover which is a composite of studio and stock photography. 100 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect bound, full color throughout.
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Clearsnap catalog 2
Prior to their single bound book, Clearsnap preferred periodic mini-catalogs to represent their many distinct product lines. 8.5" x 11", full color. 12-20 pages each.
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Skookum Lumber Specification Sheets
A series of individual product specification sheets. 8.5"x11".
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Q
Sometimes the best packaging is the least packaging. Here, the client intended to present a successful single product as a group in their usual opaque cases and struggled with how to indicate colors. They were delighted with my suggestion of a trademark and my recommendation to use clear cases which obviated the need for labels, backing cards or cartons. A simple clear shrink was all that was required.
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crp
Compositing studio and stock photography led to many entertaining and inexpensive images for this series of audio CD inserts and tray cards. 4.75"x9.5"
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skook
Dimensionally accurate illustrations complement the information and instructions in these retail bundle wraps. Varying sizes.
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Inkums
Clearsnap asked me to create the artwork for most of the more than 100 stamp sets across several product lines, in addition to the packaging design and production.
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Clearsnap ads
With a consistent, appealing and distinctive look, Clearsnap's advertising program transformed a commodity item (inkpads) into internationally recognized brands. Varying sizes.
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posters
Quite often, the challenge was to transform good images into great ones and add text without compromising their appeal.
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cms http://www.compassmar.com
compassmar.com: Ship brokerage firm, Compass Maritime Services, wanted a visually appealing site that reflected the excitement and scale of their activities in the maritime industry. Site production in ColdFusion by Asa Miller, AsaMiller.com.
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asba http://www.asba.org
asba.org: Built on WordPress for site administration by client, ASBA.org includes online courses, a certification test and automatic formatting of database uploads.
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sr http://www.suerobertssculpture.com
SueRobertsSculpture.com and its associate site TowerArtsStudio.com are dynamic with site administration by client through a web browser. Site handles workshop registration. MySQL, CSS and Cold Fusion.
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bj http://www.byjulez.com
ByJulez.com and its affiliated site LinterAssociates.com represent the integrated business activities of Julez and Tom Linter.
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fh http://www.froghospital.com
FrogHospital.com: Support web site for the book Frog Hospital.
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cs web
This full featured, wholesale and retail e-commerce site (since redesigned and converted to wholesale only by new owners) featured hundreds of products, product information, shipping and carton size calculator, forum, instructional video clips, order history and store locator. The site was administered and updated by client through a web browser. Both the site and administration application were built in Flash/ColdFusion/MySQL by Asa Miller (www.AsaMiller.com).
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lt
For ten years, www.LineTime.org (named for that premier island communication time, waiting in the ferry line) has provided the organizations and citizens of the Island community with news and information, stories, calendar, message board and directory.
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RESUME
SUMMARY
• Art Director/Senior Designer with talent, strong initiative and keen eye for the right solution.
• More than twelve years experience building internationally recognized brands through packaging, advertising, catalogs and web sites.
SKILLS
• Organizes complex visual objectives into essential and effective communication. Understands customers and marketplace and crafts appealing presentations delivered on time and on budget.
• Project management: Translates a larger view into specific goals, strategies and plans. Evaluates task requirements and matches to resources. Conducts productive meetings. Implements and completes projects efficiently.
• Visual concept and design. Advanced typography. Pre-press production.
• Expert level skills in PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator as well as HTML/CSS.
EXPERIENCE
Joseph Miller Design, Art Director
Designed user experience and interface for three iOS apps currently in development.
Designed and produced distinctive products and packaging, catalogs, marketing materials, and advertising for leading manufacturers of craft products and construction materials. Designed full-featured e-commerce web site, organizing hundreds of products. Improved customer response and accomplished company goals for growth. Managed subcontractors on all projects.
Octopia, Inc., Founding Member, Art Director
Feature and interface planning and design, business organization and marketing. for Octopia.com, a web service that allows groups, organizations and communities to create and share web site content with other Octopia sites, using just a web browser.
Home Planet Group, San Francisco CA, Founding Member
Instrumental in articulating vision and developing organization principles and business plan for a startup company, creating Earth image tools based on high resolution cloud-free satellite mosaics of the Earth's surface.
Book design and production: Cookbooks: San Juan Classics II, San Juan Fare, Field Guide to Marine Mammals of Greater Puget Sound (Benjamin Franklin Award winner), The Mothman's Photographer II and III, Frog Hospital, High White Moon, Taos Mountain
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, American literature, Seattle University, Seattle WA.
ACTIVITIES
Founded three non-profit community organizations, currently leads the third, LineTime.org.
Professional references available on request.
CONTACT
Joseph Miller
360.610.7107