P R O F I L E :Susan Shepherd Kochinskas
Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S :
June 1989-Present
Designer, Flocksholm Design
Designer for full service design studio. Projects include concept development, design and layout, production through printing, and overall project management.November 1997
Design Instructor, University of Vermont Continuing Education Program/Rutland
Newsletter Design Seminar.May 1996-July 1997
Composer/Macintosh QuarkXpress Technician, NK Graphics
Macintosh pre-press book composition. Creating documents for printing from manuscripts following design specifications from the publisher.September 1985-May 1989
Designer, The Dickerson Group, Inc.
A marketing, communications and corporate design company. Responsible for a variety of projects from initial strategy and concept with client, through design, production, and press approvals.February 1984-September 1985
Art Director, Purchasing Magazine, Cahners Publishing Company
Art direction of a semi-monthly magazine. Responsible for design and budget of magazine including cover concepts, feature design and layout, purchase and direction of illustration and photography, coordination of materials with editors, supervision of 3 staff artists.August 1980-March 1984
Art Director, Boston Computer Update, The Boston Computer Society
Responsible for complete production of bimonthly magazine, including overall design, layout, and mechanical preparation of all editorial pages as well as the imposition of magazine.July 1983-February 1984
Staff Artist, Purchasing Magazine, Cahners Publishing Company
Responsible for layout, artwork (charts, graphs, etc.), mechanicals of department pages, and all support work for the art director.July 1982-July 1983
Graphic Artist, Self-employed
Handled projects from initial concept through printing.October 1979-June 1982
Paste Up Supervisor, Cahners Publishing Company
Directed the work flow of nine magazines in a department of seven paste up artists. Acted as liaison between paste up and the art, editorial, and production departments of each magazine.January 1979-October 1979
Paste Up Artist, Cahners Publishing Company
Paste up of eight magazines from rough layouts, including cropping and positioning of artwork.Summer 1978
Intern, Yankee Publishing Inc.
Layout and paste up of ads for Yankee Magazine. Support work for other Yankee publications.E D U C A T I O N :
Fall 2000 · Web Design & Management, CCV (Community College of Vermont)
1996 · Desktop Publishing/QuarkXpress (6-week course), NK Graphics
1994 · Winthrop ProLink Seminar Series (Electronic prepress seminars)
1991 · Magazine Design, Masterclass, The New School of Design, Cambridge, MA
1989-1990 · Macintosh computer seminars at SIS, Inc. and The Boston Computer Society
1988 · RISD Workshop in Publication Design with Kris Lenk and Malcolm Grear
1978 · BA Fine Arts, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
1976-1977 · Austro American Institute, Vienna, Austria