Layout Artist

Layout Artist — Vanguard Publishing Group

San Francisco, CA | August 2023 – Present

• Designed and executed page layouts for 24 monthly print publications and digital editions, improving overall visual hierarchy and boosting reader engagement metrics by 18%.
• Collaborated with 5 cross-functional teams of editors and writers to create custom editorial templates, reducing page layout assembly time by 4 hours per issue.
• Managed print prepress verification for 120+ projects, ensuring zero errors in bleeds and crop marks, which saved the firm $15,000 in print production re-run costs.
• Re-engineered the digital asset archiving system, cataloging over 10,000 media assets and improving asset retrieval efficiency across the design department by 35%.

Junior Layout Artist — Apex Graphic Media

Oakland, CA | July 2021 – July 2023

• Created layout drafts and composite mockups for 50+ corporate clients, contributing directly to a 20% increase in contract retention rate over a 12-month period.
• Formatted and adjusted typography and image placement for 80+ print advertisements, reducing pre-flight alignment errors by 22% through automated template checks.
• Supported the senior design team by preparing 300+ vector graphic assets and high-resolution images, boosting weekly output of creative deliverables by 25%.
• Assisted in the redesign of 8 digital magazines, translating desktop publishing files to responsive mobile formats, which raised digital subscriptions by 14%.

Layout Design, Typography, Visual Hierarchy, Print Prepress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Vector Art, Digital Compositing, Style Guide Compliance, Grid Systems, Graphic Design, Page Assembly, Pre-flighting

Corporate Identity and Layout Redesign

Role: Lead Layout Designer

Tools: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

Redesigned the layout format for an annual report of 120 pages, completing the task 10 days early and increasing readability satisfaction by 28%.

Digital Magazine Launch

Role: Desktop Publishing Specialist

Tools: Adobe InDesign, HTML5, CSS3

Designed a template framework for 6 new digital magazines, speeding up monthly production time by 30% and attracting 12,000 active monthly readers.

• Adobe Certified Professional in Print & Digital Media Publication using Adobe InDesign (2022)
• Graphic Design Specialization Certification (2021)

• Languages: English (Native), French (Conversational)
• Volunteer Work: Provided pro-bono layout design for 3 local non-profit community newsletters (2022-present)
• Availability: 2 weeks notice