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Nancy McGrath

Nancy McGrath

Littleton,CO

Summary

  • High-end, award-winning graphic designer with significant professional experience. Highly accomplished.
  • Excellent management skills and expertise in driving a wide variety of business, including relationship management, business development, and conflict resolution
  • Deep foundation in graphic design, typography, layout, digital tools and photography.
  • Ability to build rapport with key stakeholders and succeed in high-pressure, challenging, deadline-driven environments

Work History

Senior Packaging Designer

MATTEL
El Segundo, CA
  • Company Overview: Mattel is a Fortune 100 company, It is also the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of toy products
  • One of only two out of 75 selected designers that designed and developed packaging concepts for the exclusive adult collector series of Barbie dolls with price points ranging from $70 to over $1,500
  • Planned and art-directed all photography and illustrations
  • Negotiate prices for all outsourced vendors, photographers, and illustrators, etc
  • Designed The Barbara Millicent Roberts (Barbie's real name) Collection, Speigel's Shopping Chic, My Fair Lady Collection, Ghanan Barbie, and Glamour Classique
  • Collaborated with copywriter, packaging engineer, comp artist, photographers, graphics department, technical illustrator, and pre-press department
  • Mattel is a Fortune 100 company, It is also the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of toy products

Art Director

LANDS' END
Dodgeville, WI
  • Company Overview: Lands' End is an American clothing and home decor retailer founded in 1963 and based in Dodgeville, Wisconsin
  • Created, planned, budgeted, and directed all location and studio photography for quilt, tabletop, and blanket product lines
  • Designed assigned catalog pages in designated product areas
  • Served as Art Director for designated pages of Coming Home and Lands' End catalog
  • KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Only Art Director chosen to go on long-distance photo shoots to San Francisco and Chicago
  • Lands' End is an American clothing and home decor retailer founded in 1963 and based in Dodgeville, Wisconsin

Associate Art Director

MEREDITH CORP., Better Homes & Gardens
Des Moines, IA
  • Company Overview: Meredith Corporation is a Fortune 500 company and media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa
  • Facilitated use of first Macintosh desktop publishing system for magazines
  • Conducted training sessions for staff on desktop publishing applications
  • Maintained art production budget of $ 2.1 million a year for 31 magazines
  • Designed editorial magazine pages and covers, conceptualized and art directed photography, and proofed all phases of production
  • Approved all layouts and covers, fine-tuned production techniques, and managed magazine schedules
  • KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Established 140-page Macintosh Handbook used as a design reference | Won 5 Art Director's awards for magazine design
  • Meredith Corporation is a Fortune 500 company and media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa

Digital Design Studio Manager

CURRENT INC.
Co. Springs, CO
  • Company Overview: Current is a multi-brand direct marketing company with more than 2,000 products and millions of customers
  • Managed Digital Design Studio which was responsible for all design and production work for all products manufactured by Current
  • Conceived, planned, and art directed all photography and trained designers
  • Planned and designed projects including books, posters, Compact Disc jackets, die-cut products, correspondence seals, cookbooks, wrapping papers, postcards, paper mobiles, packaging, calendars, and other products
  • KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Won 2 Denver Art Director's awards for two car calendar designs
  • Current is a multi-brand direct marketing company with more than 2,000 products and millions of customers

Owner/Graphic Designer

McGRATH CREATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGN LLC
Aurora, CO
  • Company Overview: McGrath Creative Graphic Design is a B2B small business established in 2014
  • Conceive, design, and execute a wide range of award-winning projects for a variety of clients including Northwest Airlines Magazine, Florida Tourism Council, Connecticut Tourism Council, Decorating Den, Meredith Publishing and Better Homes & Gardens Books
  • Contracted as Interim Art Director for Memory Makers magazine to redesign magazine - 9 months
  • Served as Advertising Art Director for Tucson Lifestyle magazine - 1 year
  • Designed Midwest Living magazine's first website
  • McGrath Creative Graphic Design is a B2B small business established in 2014

Education

Web Design Certificate -

Arapahoe Community College
01.2025

Master of Science -

University of North Dakota

Bachelor of Arts -

University of North Dakota

Skills

  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Animate
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Premier Pro
  • Video Editing
  • HTML5
  • CSS
  • Microsoft Office
  • Visual Studio Code
  • BBEdit
  • Design implementation
  • Design strategy
  • Illustration
  • Adobe creative suite
  • HTML and CSS
  • Mobile app design
  • Color selection and pairing
  • Motion graphics
  • Packaging design
  • Originality
  • Concept development
  • Visual communication
  • Layout design
  • Creative and artistic
  • Video editing
  • Photography
  • Teamwork skills
  • Print production
  • Collaboration skills
  • Project management
  • Customized template design
  • Analytical skills
  • Production support
  • Superb eye for detail
  • Tech-Savvy
  • Multi-tasking
  • Creative design layouts
  • Branding and identity
  • Color theory
  • Typography expertise
  • Computer literate
  • Client presentation delivery
  • Vendor relationships
  • Wireframing and prototyping
  • Art direction
  • Corporate design
  • Client satisfaction
  • Rough sketching
  • Production methods
  • Design research
  • Art conceptualization

Timeline

Senior Packaging Designer

MATTEL

Art Director

LANDS' END

Associate Art Director

MEREDITH CORP., Better Homes & Gardens

Digital Design Studio Manager

CURRENT INC.

Owner/Graphic Designer

McGRATH CREATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGN LLC

Web Design Certificate -

Arapahoe Community College

Master of Science -

University of North Dakota

Bachelor of Arts -

University of North Dakota

Sociallinks

https://bit.ly/mcgrath-Facebook, https://bit.ly/nmcgra-LinkedIn, https://bit.ly/mcgrath-Instagram, https://bit.ly/mcgrath-Twitter

Awards

  • Award of Excellence, Art Director's Assoc. Denver, 3
  • Award of Excellence, Art Director's Assoc. of Iowa, 5
  • Award of Excellence, UCDA, University & College Designer's Assoc., 5
  • Award of Excellence, CASE, Council for Advancement of Education, 3
  • Magna Cum Laude Graduate
  • Board of Higher Education Scholarship
  • National Society of Leadership and Success, NSLS
  • President's List & Dean's List
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • Neil C. McDonald Scholarship, Most Coveted Award at Univ. of ND

Sociallinks

https://bit.ly/mcgrath-Facebook, https://bit.ly/nmcgra-LinkedIn, https://bit.ly/mcgrath-Instagram, https://bit.ly/mcgrath-Twitter

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