This month is dedicated to the final push to get to press Mike Glier’s new book along a long line, (published by Hard Press Editions) and an online marketing campaign promoting it. After that a newsletter for Clark & Green Architects and a series of illustrations for Seven Salon and Spa.
Which means I won’t be getting around just yet to making my own site look like do anything more than write about graphic design… Ah well, I am getting back into CSS a bit so at least I’ll come back with some new chops and some new pieces for my portfolio. And it’s Summer, the dog roses are blooming, peonies are swooning, and the Berkshires are doing the best imitation of a tropical rainforest possible in zone 5 New England. Life ain’t bad.
It is the cruel nature of a blog to highlight, for all to see, just how long it’s been since you last posted. The past five months have been a whirlwind. The Hair Ball was a great success as was the publication of Kenneth Snelson’s Forces Made Visible and Irving Sandler’s Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation. In the relative lull that occurred after these historic events I’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of print ads, brochures, and online newsletter, a photoshoot of baby animals, and a blurb.com-published portfolio. As I delve more deeply into the Word Press experience I’ll be loading a gallery or two of my own portfolio on this site. In the meantime the block to the right has a small set of revolving samples.
It’s been a busy month and not just because of the holidays. Working with Hard Press Editions in Lenox I’ve been applying the “final” edits, color proofing and typesetting for two great books that I can’t wait to be able to sit down and actually read. The first is a book of Kenneth Snelson’s work Forces Made Visible. The second Abstract Expressionism: The American Experience by Irving Sandler has been difficult to work on because I have to keep pulling myself back from getting absorbed in reading it.
I’ve also be writing some copy and designing the graphics for IS183 Art School of the Berkshire’s—The Hair Ball. Their annual dance party-silent auction-masquarade-extraordinaire, the ball has a different theme every year but is consistently one of the best bashes in the Berkshires. (See myriad photos from last year’s party at rocktheopera.org)
And on a quieter but no less fun note I’ve been working with the lovely and talented Karen Beckwith. Karen is an artist and interior designer who recently launched a line of home accessories that includes pillows and window treatments of her own design. I’ve been assisting with drawing floor and furniture plans as well as designing ads. We’re currently working on her marketing plan for the coming year.
Michelle Quigley
Experience
Freelance Graphic Design & Marketing Coordinator 2007 – Present
Graphic Design & Marketing Coordinator 2004 – 2007
William Caligari Interiors/Architecture, Great Barrington MA
Art Director and Web Developer — Front End/Interface Systems 1999-2003
Zenn New Media LLC., Great Barrington MA
Freelance Graphic Designer 1997-1999
DBA Skin-A-Cat Design, Providence, RI and Housatonic, MA
Media Production Designer 1998-1999
Mesolore CD-ROM, and Auroch CD-ROM, for Prolarti at the Center for
Latin American Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
Associate Art Director 1994-1995
Judge Dredd, Mass.Illusion Visual Effects, Lenox, MA., for Cinergi
Inc., Buena Vista, CA.
Assistant Art Director 1992-1993
Luxor, the Secret of the Pyramid, The Trumbull Co. Inc., Lenox, MA.,
for Luxor Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Production Assistant 1990-1991
Back to the Future, The Ride, Berkshire Motion Picture, Housatonic,
MA., for Universal Studios FL and CA
Education
B.F.A. Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1995-1998
A.A. Liberal Arts, Simon’s Rock College of Bard, Great Barrington, MA 1985-1987
Etc.
Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, Dreamweaver MX, GoLive 5.0,
OS X, HTML, CSS, Acrobat 5.0, Logo Design, Iluustration, Pre-Press
Production, Information Architechture
