Director Designer

LARRY WEINER

DESIGNER/ART DIRECTOR

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Larry Weiner is an award-winning, professionally trained designer and art

director with more than 15 years of experience. A strong conceptual

thinker, Larry excels in creating original print packaging, collateral,

website and advertising designs with proven capabilities in the design and

production of highly successful graphics for such high profile companies

as: Starbucks, TAZO, Playboy, HP, Corbis, Microsoft, UW Medicine, T-Mobile,

AT&T, and Premera Blue Cross among others. He's also an accomplished photo

illustrator, having provided imagery for clients such as Amazon, Simon &

Schuster publishing, HEAR Music and RCA Records.

JAN. 2008 - Current - Freelance Art Director/Designer Seattle, WA.

Personally managed accounts included Little Water Cantina, Denver Power

Tools, Quest gardening equipment, Holben Vintage Watches. Agencies included

Amazon Create Space Publishing, Green/Rubino, Garrigan Lyman Group, The

Hacker Group.

AUG. 2007 - DEC. 2008 Senior Art Director/Designer Seattle, WA.

Starbucks "71" ad group & design studio

Responsible for generating ideas and concepts to create brand and translate

brand across all media and for executing all supporting visuals. Projects

included VIA, Starbucks Ice Cream, HEAR Music and Doubleshot.

JUN. 2003- AUG. 2007 Freelance Art Director/Designer Seattle, WA.

Starbucks . Sedgwick Rd. . Copacino . Wongdoody . DDB . Hydrogen .

Sweetgrass . Euro RSCG BBFM . Lemley Design . Radarworks . Remer, Inc. .

Hodgson Meyers . Golden Lasso . Fusion Partners . Edelman PR . FLUKE . WAVE

Broadband . RUI . The Matale Line .

Projects ranged from annual reports, to collateral, to television. As a

contractor my primary role was to come in and add another way of looking at

the project - another creative avenue to explore. In addition, to meld

seamlessly with the exisiting creatives.

JUL. 1998 - JUN. 2003 Senior Art Director, Associate Creative Director

Seattle, WA.

Herring/Newman, THINK New Ideas, Sweetgrass

Resourcefully created a RIP edited to an original script and successfully

pitched a make-or-break rebranding campaign to the University of Washington

Medical Program.

Performed as Lead Art Director for the entire Hewlett-Packard catalog

division worldwide.

Produced a video for HP to effectively debut its associated company,

Agilent Technologies, at a crucial engineering conference. Result: Agilent

became known as HP's fast, streamlined and smarter "little brother".

Developed on a shoestring a video spot for a TOP Foods sweepstakes

promotion that turned a ho-hum campaign into a sweepstakes hit.

SEPT. 1993 - MAY 1997 Senior Art Director Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University Marketing

1990 - 92

Los Angeles, CA Freelance Music Video Gaffer

1989

Burbank, CA Disney Studios Feature Product Placement

CSULA 1989 BFA in Film

Fluent in CS5, Painter, MSoffice, LogicPro, large format photography.

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