Mark Clough

Motivated self-starter responsible for designing creative elements of all clients marketing campaigns (advertising, graphic design, branding initiatives, etc.). Maintain a familiarity with trends in design practices. Develop creative solutions and design concepts that meet the clients brand, objectives and scheduled deadlines.

Key retoucher responsible for managing freelancers and coordinating the delivery of digital assets from the photo studio to website and creative department. Ensure that all downloaded, re purposed or created assets match all requirements. Expert knowledge of retouching, design and production for print/web with a strong understanding of pre press and printing requirements. Ability to lead and prioritize with all departments to execute a high volume of work under tight deadlines and maintain an awareness of visual and branding trends.

Launched and managed a design team to conceptualize, plan, and produce all creative projects online and print. Communicating with clients/internal teams to ensure that design deliverables and design teams deadlines are met. In addition developed style guides/branding, designed monthly direct mail campaigns, yearly catalog redesigns, product photography and retouching.

Implemented the creative design art direction of Government Fleet magazine a circulation of 18,000. Apart of the in-House creative services department responsible for the design and production of special publications, advertising materials, collateral projects, inserts and magazine layout. In addition responsible for the design and production of monthly magazines, including feature articles, department articles, ad placement, and house ads. Qualified in creating client ads, marketing promos, and House ads. Other tasks involve daily maintenance of web site, such as vender profiles, feature articles, and news items.