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Brief Résumé

I thoroughly enjoy my life's work.

Self-employed marketing designer and project manager since 1975. Start to finish print design and production. Concept to completion.

16 National Design awards
Ten awards in my first 6 years. Five POPAI Indians came later.
2006 National Aeronautic Association Safety Award. (link)

Never missed a deadline
I understand that occasionally time is tight - budgets, too - and adjust to those limits with efficient production knowhow.

Authored "Objects in the Heavens"
Deep-sky field book for amateur astronomers with small viewing equipment; edition 3.5 now available.

Experience includes, but is not limited to:
Advertising – Art and Photo Direction –
Business Papers and forms – Catalog Design/Organization – Copywriting – Corporate Identity – Direct Mail –
Graphic Design – Instruction Manuals – Newsletters –
P-O-P Displays – Presentation Renderings –
Product Design – Product Illustration –
Signage – Trade Show Booth Design –
Tutoring Computer Graphics –
(and if this site is any measure, I'll include web design, too)

Work history:
Whitaker-Guernsey (production apprentice, 1969)
Campbell-Mithun (Jr. Art Director, to 1971)
Advanced Systems (Video Graphic Designer, 1971-75)
Techniques of Professional Marketing (Magazine Designer,1975)
Birren Design Company (owner, 1975-87, '92 to present)
Anderson Perlstein (Creative Director, 1987-88)
Powers&Swock Graphics (General Manager, 1988-92).

Managed staff of ten creatives at Anderson Perlstein.
Managed staff of six at Powers&Swock.

Schools/Education:
Art Institute of Chicago
American Academy of Art
Robert Morris Jr. College
Univ. of Maryland
Wright Jr. College
Sumter Technical Education Center
Harper College
Continuing course work at the School of Hard Knocks

Honorable Discharge from the US Air Force
Aircraft Radio Repairman, 1966-1969;
Thailand/Viet Nam 68-69

Graduated Notre Dame HS, Niles IL, 1965

"This page" further details several measurable project successes.

Articles and short stories have been published in sport and science books and publications.

I don't blog but participate in numerous yahoogroups for flying, astronomy, computing, history and family.

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Birren Design Company
Shooting for the stars

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