Award winning art director; illustrator.
Experienced in both print and website design.
Expert with InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver and some Flash.
Beta tester for numerous graphics programs.
Excellent troubleshooting skills.

E X P E R I E N C E

Currently art director for The Malibu Times Magazine, a quarterly, and The Malibu Times newspaper, a weekly local paper (since 2001)
Freelance print and graphics, custom web site design.

2001-2009
Art director for Malibu Times Magazine, a bimonthly lifestyle magazine.

2001-2002
Art director and designer of the news magazine - Jewish Life magazine.

1999-2000
- Art director for 101communications, an IT company producing magazines, web sites and conferences, producing three monthly magazines: Java Report, Journal of object Oriented Programming (JOOP), and Syllabus. The Syllabus magazine won a prestigious Maggie award for best redesign.

1997-1999
- Graphic designer for ISCAR, a large international precision tool manufacturing company. In-house graphics department creating multi-lingual catalogs, brochures, ads etc.
- Art director for the Hebrew version of Popular Science magazine.
- Design and production of ELBIT newsletter.
- Taught QuarkXpress and Photoshop for MicroJouk (Mac dealer and teaching facility).
- Web site design.

1992-1997
Graphic department of Hed Haqurayot, a publishing company producing local weekly newspapers covering the north of Israel. Including design; art-direction; illustration; setting-up production branches with computer networking; creating a classified newspaper, interfacing complex databases; installing software and training company's employees.

1986-1991
Freelance teacher - Mac basics and graphics programs for the Learning Tree and various design studios around LA. Published computer art and articles (Verbum Magazine). Illustrations for trade magazines.

E D U C A T I O N
Bachelor degree in Art and Hebrew Language and Literature from Haifa University, Israel.
3 years Graphic Design at the Techinion Institute (Haifa)

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