UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT
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UWSP Art and Design graduates achieve great success professionally. Our alumni are regularly placed in prominent graduate schools and in well-paid positions. Our grads find jobs in Central Wisconsin, in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Seattle, and New York.
If you are one of our Art & Design alumni and would like to be featured in this section, please contact us.
BFA May 2002
Graphic Design + Art History Minor
Melanie is currently an Associate Art Director at Target Advertising in Minneapolis, MN.
On the job her responsibilities include:
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photo art direction for Target circulars and for special projects
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travel and work with various fashion photographers
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design layouts and concept new formats for Target circulars
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design and art direct special projects including direct mail, magazine inserts, and additional promotional print pieces, and
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develop concepts & design secondary holiday campaigns for Target stores
BFA 2003
Graphic Design
Kate Fischer relocated to New York City where she is a graphic designer at Town Sports International.
Kate designs marketing materials for the company, including brochures, manuals and posters. She is currently working with the Senior Designer to plan, design and administer Town Sports International’s website: www.mysportsclubs.com
Kate is also a member of The Taproot Foundation, a non-profit organization. Kate's work with Taproot allows her to work with other professionals in creating brochures and websites for non-profit organizations.
Kate maintains a personal website: http://homepage.mac.com/katefischer/
BFA 2000
Graphic Design
Jaime has been working as a designer for LarsonAllen, a financial advising and consulting firm, in Minneapolis, since June 2001.
Jaime was recently promoted to the position of Senior Designer at LarsonAllen. Jaime also does some freelance design work, with EiVia being her biggest client.
Jaime has remained active in AIGA, volunteering for many events, including the Design Camp committees in 2003 and 2004, one-on-one portfolio reviews and co-chairing of the Design Show committee for the AIGA MN Design Show, which will take place in February 2006.
BFA 2002
Graphic Design
Ben is now stationed in Iraq, where he was deployed with the 2-127th Infantry Division in May 2005.
In 2002, Ben was working as a graphic designer for Eastbay, in Wausau, Wisconsin. When he returns to Wisconsin, Ben intends to go back to school in order to pursue a career as an art teacher.
BFA May 2002
Graphic Design
Jill has been a Graphic Designer at Visuality since March 2003. Located in Madison, WI, Visuality is a full-service creative and messaging development firm. They also specialize in video, audio, interactive media, and web and print design. As the sole print designer she is responsible for concept, layout, design, and production of all print media, as well as some web site concepts and designing. She works with clients and creates various branding items and pieces such as: brochures, ads, direct mailings, posters, billboards, displays, stationary, logos, and capital campaign materials.
BFA 2003
Graphic Design
Katie is currently the Graphic and Web Designer for RDG Chicago, a multi-concept restaurant development group located in Glenview, Illinois.
RDG Chicago currently operates over 40 full-service restaurants nationwide in 14 states under four holding companies: Bar Louie America, Red Star America, Nick & Tony's America and Concepts America.
Some of Katie’s responsibilities include:
designing all collateral materials (logos, menus, letterheads, etc) for all of the units nationwide, as well as designing and maintaining RDG Chicago’s website.
BFA 2003
Graphic Design
Jake is currently working at Great Big Pictures, Inc. in Madison, WI. GBP works with a wide range of clients. Jake's workflow usually involves some of the following: menu layouts for Sbarro, custom text cutouts for Borders Group, image and logo layout for Harley Davidson, barricade setups for Ann Taylor, and even laying out the Met's team store sign for Shea Stadium. On the side Jake is currently producing a brochure for the high end antique stores of the Chicago area. Jake's artistic passion still burns for depicting astronomical images with oil on canvas. To view his paintings go to http://jakeleick.com
BFA May 2002
Graphic Design
Originally from Seoul, Korea, Hye-Jin received a BA in fashion design from Sung Shin Women's University before coming to UWSP. After recieving her BFA she enrolled in the graduate program in Computer Graphic Design at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Currently Hye-Jin is working as a visual interaction designer at the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY, and is finishing work on her thesis.
"Studying at UWSP gave me the strong graphic design foundation that has allowed me to create effective multimedia pieces for graduate school and international clients. I have a great appreciation for the faculty members in the Dept. of Art and Design at UWSP."
Websites:
www.naedesign.com
www.naedesign.com/color
www.naedesign.com/neoModern
www.naedesign.com/csi
www.naedesign.com/kineticGarden
www.naedesign.com/cgd
Cory has been working for the Karma Group, a large advertising firm in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin, for almost 3 years. His job title is designer and he mainly does print work for the firm. Cory finds that he has the freedom to use his creativity, but also to do all of his own production work. He recently finished the Packers Pro Shop Catalog, his biggest accomplishment at Karma to date. It took a lot of hard work, with photo art directing over 500 articles of clothing and such; directing the color-correction of all the photography, the layout of all the pages—including product, type and look in general. The finished product was quite a success; a great Karma team effort.
"After leaving Stevens Point in May 2002, I landed a job at The Karma Group. I've been working with The Karma Group for two years now. I love it. The people are so caring and fun. We have very good clients and we do a lot of great work. I'm grateful to have found such a wonderful job. You call this a job? Forgetting about all them harsh deadlines, designing is fun!"
Cory has also stayed with his oil paintings and has taken part in a few exhibitions in which his work was displayed.
BFA 2004
Graphic Design
Craig is currently working for Swiss Colony, in Monroe, Wisconsin, and serves as a Creative Coordinator for Seventh Avenue magazine.
BFA 2003
Graphic Design
Laura is a Graphic Designer at Scott Foresman, a K-6 text book publisher in Glenview, IL, where she has worked since graduating in May 2003. In the past 2 years Laura has worked on prototyping and production of new Math and Reading programs. She has also designed a series of covers for Scott Foresman's Art text books which won 2nd place in the School Publishing Cover/Jacket Series category at the New York Book Clinic 2005. Laura is currently wrapping up a Reading program and moving on to a Science program.
Shortly after graduation, Amy caught a plane bound for Seattle, armed only with her portfolio, her laptop, and a fairly large suitcase.
After a brief stint as a prepress technician, Amy accepted a design position at DOXA (www.doxa.biz). She also designs book covers for Amazon.com's independent publishing division, and is working on developing a line of luxury pet furniture and lifestyle items.
On rainy Saturdays, you will most likely find Amy browsing through used record stores or lounging in a local coffee shop with a good book and a
double short americano.
Amy's portfolio is available online at:
www.amyrabas.com
BFA 2001
Graphic Design
Amber is currently am working in Madison for Capital Newspapers. She is an online graphic designer for madison.com, which entails working on the redesign for madison.com and capital times sites. Amber has put her animation skills to work, doing numerous flash ads for the online sites. Amber has continued with her painting and has had four shows in coffee houses, where she sold her first four paintings. She is currently working on a new series of paintings and is exploring gallery possibilities.
Eric has been working for the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce
since his graduation from UWSP.
A Senior Graphic Designer, Eric does nearly all of the design and layout for the Chamber of Commerce’s materials; including the BBJ (Bay Business Journal), a 40 to 48 page magazine which is mailed out to over 3000 Green Bay area companies and members. The BBJ, as well as some brochures that Eric designed, received national recognition at the ACE awards in 2004.
BFA 2004
Graphic Design
After graduating, Angela traveled to Greece to study art and architecture. She currently works for HerffJones Photography in Lewiston, Minnesota, as a Graphic Designer/Web Designer.
BFA 2005
Photography
Mary recently received an award for a multiple image photograph the 2005 summer exhibition "Visions”, held at the Riverfront Arts Center, in Stevens Point.
BFA 2003
Graphic Design
Allison is currently designing for Junkfood Clothing a company that produces t-shirts and other similar apparel, in Los Angeles, California. Visit the Junkfood Clothing Web site http://junkfoodforever.com
Allison has taken on many different roles with the company, including the design of both the t-shirt graphics as well as the catalogs, working with licensers and preparing graphics for print.
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