Denise Urban
61 East Shrewsbury Place Princeton, NJ 08540

http://www.urbandigits.com
urbandigits@comcast.net     
Experience
 
UrbanDigits, Princeton, NJ September 1998 - Present
Creative Director/ Designer
UrbanDigits, 61 E. Shrewsbury Place, Princeton, N.J.
Creative Director: Wide range of creative, technical, and analytical
skills in combining media content, navigational structure, and
appearance in all related interactive media using desktop publishing
and web design on the Macintosh producing promotional, editorial
and corporate design. Conception and format design of interactive
CD-ROM's, web sites, catalogs, corporate logos, magazine ads,
brochures, greeting cards, posters, point of purchase displays,
T-shirts, clothing labels, newspaper ads and sale catalogs to final
PostScript print production. Creation of complex animations involving
morphing or organic motion. Software used: Macromedia Director, Adobe
Premiere, Adobe in Design, SoundEdit, VideoFusion, Elastic Reality, Ray
Dream Studio, QuarkXpress, AdobePhotoshop, Adobe PageMaker, Fractal
Design Painter, and Adobe FreeHand. Hand-coding basic HTML tags,
frames, tables, and image maps using Basic GUI web editors Adobe
PageMill, Fetch, Composer,
and BBEdit. General knowledge of DHTML and JavaScript.
Education
 
School of Visual Arts, New York City, NY
Master of Arts - Telecommunications
 
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bachelor of Arts - Fashion Illustration/ Art History
 
Art Student's League, New York City, NY
Other - Fine Art
(Board of Control Fine Arts Painting
Scholarship)
 
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Other - Fine Art
Clients
 
Talbot's
Bloomingdales
Jordan Marsh
John Wanamakers
Bullock's
Laura Ashley
Fortunoff's
Estee Lauder
Lord & Taylor
Macy's
J.C.Penney
Bass
Merrill Lynch
Lillian Vernon
Rich's
Cash’s of Ireland
Montaldo's
Spiegel
The Limited
Dillard's
Strong Museum
Academy of Natural Science
Franklin Institute

Agency Experience
 
Marke Communications, 145 West 45th Street, N.Y.C., N.Y.
http://www.marke.com/
Art Director: Presentation format design, catalog layout design,
checking final film with 4/C production and trafficking. Conception and format design of posters, commercial lstoryboards, labels, magazine ads, hang tags, shopping bags, newspaper ads, and tabloids. Supervisory
experience graphics production.

AGA Catalog and Marketing and Design , 2 Park Avenue , (former location
on Broadway ) N.Y.C., N.Y.
http://www.aganet.com/
Art Director: Presentation format design, catalog layout design,checking final film with 4/C production and trafficking. Conception and format design of catalogs, posters, labels, magazine ads, hang
tags, shopping bags, newspaper ads, and tabloids. Supervisory experience
graphics production.


(Division of The Limited) Brylane, Inc. , 463 7th Ave. N.Y.C.,N.Y.
http://www.brylane.com/
Art Director: Presentation format design, 4/C print production, photo shoot supervision and catalog layout design. Produced catalogs, posters, clothing labels, magazine ads and sale tabloids. Software used Macromedia Director, QuarkXpress, Adobe Photoshop, Fractal DesignPainter, Adobe PageMaker and Adobe FreeHand.


Lipman, Richmond & Greene, 470 Park Ave., N.Y.C., N.Y..
http://www.jumpshotink.com/clients_main.html
Art Director: Presentation format design , catalog layouts, posters, labels, magazine ads, and inserts. Software used: QuarkXpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe PageMaker and Adobe FreeHand.


Hershey Graphics Inc. (Formally Commercial Graphics Inc.), 257 Park
Avenue, N.Y.C., N.Y.
Art Director / Desktop Publishing Graphic Design: Responsible for all aspects of catalog design, from initial format
design to final comprehensive layouts. Produced catalogs,posters, labels, and sale tabloids. Software used: QuarkXpress, Adobe
Photoshop, Fractal Design Painter ,Adobe PageMaker, Adobe FreeHand, Deneba Canvas and Painter X2.
Digital Media Graphic Design Instructor
 
Katharine Gibbs School, Digital Media Communications Department
New York City, New York
Computer Art Professor: Wrote curriculum and taught College courses for Advertising design students:Courses entitled "Typography I" and " Mass Media Communications"
Typography students are Introduced to fundamental concepts of typography
Topics covered in my class include the language of type, history of
typography, typeface character recognition, and visual
dynamics of letter forms. Mass Media Students are
exposed to American mass media and "ethics" of specific media.
New Media Graphic Design Instructor
 
Mercer County Community College, Visual Arts & Communications Department
West Windsor, N.J.
Computer Art Professor: Wrote curriculum and taught College courses for Advertising design students:Courses entitled " 2D Computer Art" and "Production for Advertising Design "An introduction to the fundamentals
of color computer graphics applications on the Macintosh. tudents learn
techniques, computer language, software packages, and create promotional
and corporate design. Courses emphasizes graphic communications oforiginal ideas.

Computer Art Professor: Visual and performing summer arts camp for gifted and talented students. Wrote curriculum and taught College
courses Grades 6-8th: An introduction to the use of the Macintosh computer as a tool for art & design. Using creative painting software, grade-school students focus attention on art projects and learn a
variety of computer graphic techniques.

Exhibitions and Awards
 
"Emanations of the Light"- The genesis of this thesis was based
on my father's private collection of photographs, love letters and
memorabilia saved from his service as a staff photographer, for the
6th Floating Air Craft Carrier, in the Pacific during WWII and Post
war Japan from 1942 to 1946. This is a life history manuscript that
preserves the private story of one individual American soldier.

National Educational Media Network, Oakland California:
Winner of the Silver Apple 1998 Award Competition - Recognized as a
standard of excellence in educational media for MFA Thesis CD-ROM
"Emanations of the Light". The 1998 CD-ROM and Film and Video
Competitions distinguished over four hundred and twelve titles,
winners of the NEMN Gold, Silver and Bronze Apple Awards are chosen
over a competitive field of over 1,000 entries. Winners are
selected for their exceptional educational and technical value
Listed on the NEMN web site http://www.nemn.org

Dataphilia, Soho Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, 137 Wooster

Street, N.Y.C., NY: MFA Thesis CD-ROM "Emanations of the Light"
exhibited.

Sixth Annual Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts ,
N.Y.C., NY: MFA Thesis CD-ROM "Emanations of the Light" exhibited.

Digital Salon Exhibition to travel to Spain and Italy.
Visual Arts Museum, NEW YORK CITY: November 9th,1998 - November
28th,1998

Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain: January 5,1999 - February
7th,1999

Triennale di Milano, Milan Italy: Feb.15th,1999 - March 14th,1999

Centro de Cultra Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain: March 22nd,1999-
April 18th, 1999

Sala de Exposiciones CAM, Alicante, Spain: April 26th,1999 - May
23rd,1999

Listed on the THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS website 11/9/98-11/28/98
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/main2.html
Product and Textile Design
 
http://www.cafeshops.com/sleepyturtle
Created complete line of Sleepy Turtle Pond products, all direct mail
and packaging selling at local shops in the tri state area:

The Art Shop Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA -
Touch of Craft Yardley, PA

Products include:
Decorative Pillows
Country Floral Tote Bags
Button Heart Totes for Kids
Handmade Journals
Button Head Bands
Apple Sachet Holders
Greeting Cards- over 500 different handmade cards
Jewelry
Country Plaques
Mini Totes for Kids
Children's Story Books
Children's Interactive CD-ROM's