Summary
• Award-winning creative director with over 20 years of experience in marketing, digital media, and strategy.
• Proven team leader with superior people- and brand-management skills.
• Expertise in high-end digital imaging, interactive design, digital illustration, photography, and advertising.
• Mastery of Adobe CC: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Lightroom. Advanced knowledge of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Microsoft Office.
• Typography specialist with extensive knowledge of font design, history, and trends.
• Author, educator, mentor, and software training consultant.
• Professional emphasis on technology, innovation, education, and the arts.
Experience
Principal, Zambelli Design
September 1999 – Present (17 years 2 months) Palo Alto, California
Consult on brand strategy and identity campaigns, develop digital and print publications and websites and direct print and web collateral for a diverse range of high tech and non-profit clients. Recent projects include a rebranding of Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, an interdisciplinary medical device innovation program at Stanford University, Stanford’s Bing Nursery School 50th Anniversary Symposium and Celebration of Stanford Psychology research in early childhood development and associate film producer and creative director, identity, marketing and social outreach for “Dancing with Nureyev” an award-winning short film (https://www.facebook.com/dancingwithnureyev), (http://dancingwithnureyev.com). Coauthored unearthed, a comparative study of Jomon dogu and Neolithic figurines. Authored articles on design trends and typography; coauthored typography chapter of Macintosh Panther Bible (9th edition, Peachpit Press). Taught graduate-level typography classes at Academy of Art University (San Francisco). Other clients include Stanford Business School, Stanford Department of Psychology, Elance, The California Museum, MacWorld magazine, Creativepro.com, and City Ballet, San Francisco.
Creative Director, Publish Magazine, International Data Group (IDG)
October 1997 – September 1999 (2 years)
Directed the design, art, advertising, and promotion of a $12 million, award-winning brand serving the graphic design and publishing community. Hired, developed, and managed a team of full-time and contract designers. Worked closely with Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and Director of Circulation to create cover strategies. Planned and oversaw a $350,000/year magazine art budget. Contracted and art directed issue photography and illustration. Designed and implemented a ground-up redesign of both the print and online editions. Art directed Publish.com; developed content repurposing workflow. Project-managed all brand collateral, including sales media kit, conference materials, and circulation.
Senior Art Director, Grolier Publishing Incorporated (a division of of Scholastic since 2000)
July 1994 – March 1997 (2 years 9 months)Danbury, CT
Supervised the creative direction of print, online, and digital products while meeting rigorous production schedules. Planned and managed art budgets. Directed staff and freelance designers, production artists, and compositors. Designed book covers and interiors; graphics and pages for print, web and interactive. Designed and produced graphics and installations for book fairs and trade shows. Worked with type foundries to develop digital font renderings of hot metal type to convert multi-volume sets to digital production. Projects included Encyclopedia Americana (first published in 1829), The New Book of Knowledge, The New Book of Popular Science (set and annual), and Lands and Peoples.
Art Director, Nuart Incorporated
October 1990 – July 1994 (3 years 10 months)Nuart, Incorporated, Westport, Connecticut
Oversaw advertising and collateral at the executive advertising firm for Bloomberg Financial Markets. Developed, implemented, and maintained consistent identity across multiple channels. Worked closely with Michael Bloomberg and other Bloomberg L.P. top executives worldwide to expand reach of product identity, branding, advertising and support materials. Created visuals for print, online, and environmental projects. Art directed product photoshoots.
PUBLICATIONS
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Arts and Humanities Research Council, San Francisco State University, Printed by Arti Grafiche Amilcare Pizzi, Milan, Italy
This book was developed as a companion piece to the exhibition, unearthed, at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (22 June–29 August 2010). The volume is intended not just as an exhibition catalogue but as a meditation on excavation and archaeological endeavour. The authors invite the reader, spectator, and exhibition viewer to take up the job of archaeologist, wrestling with unexpected evidence, opinion and comparanda. The book explores previous interpretations of figurines and dogu, along with modern work by artists, photographers, and philosophers who have struggled with the paradoxes inherent in making miniature worlds and of expressing the human body in art, as well as figurines and dogu-like objects from the modern world.
Peachpit Press, 1249 Eighth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710
Coauthored typography chapter of the 9th Edition of the most comprehensive Mac resource on the planet. Offering an expanded chapter on digital media, a new appendix on switching (not just from Windows to Mac OS X but from earlier Mac OS versions as well), an increased focus on the newest (and newly mature) OS X versions, and brand-new interviews with Mac luminaries (at the end of each chapter), this completely revised volume offers something for Mac users of all stripes and skill levels. Leaders of the Mac community address every aspect of Mac use here, packing in hundreds of tips, trivia, sidebars, and other goodies along the way.
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE & CAUSES
BRAVO member, San Francisco Ballet
Help organize and staff ballet fundraising events and manage student performers backstage at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco.
CONTACT
jeanmzambelli at gmail dot com