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Ian O.

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Graphics, Prepress, and Illustration

Over 20 years experience in print graphics, with an intimate understanding of Adobe Creative Suite including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. My specialties are color separation, spot color, trap, and rebuilding low-resolution logos & webgraphics for use in print. I also do logo design, hand lettering, and sign painting, and even cartooning and illustration.

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Whetstone Graphics
Nov 2005 - Present
This is an illustration I did for a t-shirt I printed for a now defunct coffee shop. I chose this style because it reproduces well in spot color, and maintains the illusion of tone while appearing organic - unlike a halftone.Owned and managed this printing and graphics company which at one point had four full-time employees and a retail storefront. Whetstone specialized in-house digital printing, screen printing, embroidery and vinyl banners. In 2012, responding to market conditions, the company transitione

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Self-Employed
Sep 1989 - Oct 2005 (16 years, 1 month)
Did computerized and manual layout, pasteup, and illustration for a variety of clients including Brosseau Advertising, Central Texas Chevy Dealers, and Texas Electric Cooperatives. This began in a time before computers were widely available so I would interface with litho shops and service bureaus to get photostats, and then cut and paste using razors, tape, and wax to produce camera ready art. This provided me with an understanding of print that most people my age missed out on with the advent of computeri

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Ginny's Printing
Mar 1999 - Jun 2001 (2 years, 3 months)
I started as a retail CSR, but quickly moved throughout the production departments and eventually to prepress. I'm familiar with the entire production process from customer service, to job planning, to key-opping, assembly, bindery, invoicing, and delivery. I was in line to be store manager when Ginny's shuttered it's retail division to focus on commercial printing. At this point I moved full-time to the graphics department in the main production center, and then became 3rd shift graphics

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, United States 1990 - 1991
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