Bethany W. Rendleman
Senior Graphic Designer, Industrial manufacturing
Pittsburgh, PA · (619) 555 0115 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/bethanywrendleman
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Twelve years in brand and print design, five at senior level
INDUSTRIES
Industrial manufacturing, restaurants and food, arts and culture, professional services
SPECIALTIES
Identity systems, typography, brand guidelines, print production, packaging
SYSTEMS
Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, Frontify, Asana, Esko Studio
CREDENTIALS
Member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Adobe Certified Professional in Illustrator
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design, Carnegie Mellon University
Executive Summary
Senior graphic designer with twelve years in identity studios, building brand systems for manufacturers, restaurants and cultural clients. Draws the mark, sets the type rules, then writes the guidelines so the system survives the people who inherit it. Runs press checks personally because the color on screen is not the color on paper.
Signature Achievements
- Designed the identity system for a steel fabricator with 900 employees, covering marks, type, color, signage and vehicle livery across eleven sites.
- Cut print spend for a restaurant group by 38,000 dollars a year by consolidating twelve menu templates into a single grid the locations could fill themselves.
- Built a component based template set in the page layout software that took routine collateral from three days of design time to four hours.
- Rebranded a regional arts festival and saw poster sales at the merchandise tent triple against the previous year.
- Trained six designers on prepress checks, after which press rejections across the studio dropped from roughly one job a month to two in a year.
- Won a regional design award for a short run packaging project produced on a budget of 14,000 dollars.
Professional Experience
Senior Graphic Designer
Ironwood Brand Studio, Pittsburgh, PA 2020 to present
Fourteen person identity studio serving industrial, hospitality and cultural clients across western Pennsylvania and Ohio
- Lead designer on four identity projects a year, from sketch through final guidelines and rollout artwork.
- Set type systems, color specifications and grid rules, then document them so client teams and vendors apply them the same way.
- Direct photography and illustration commissions and approve every file that goes to press.
- Review the work of two designers and one production artist and hold the final quality check before delivery.
Graphic Designer
Monongahela Design Company, Pittsburgh, PA 2016 to 2020
Studio of eight producing brand, packaging and environmental graphics for regional clients
- Designed packaging ranges, print campaigns and wayfinding for six accounts at a time.
- Prepared production files, dielines and color separations and worked directly with printers on proofs.
- Built the studio asset library so brand files stopped living on individual desktops.
Junior Designer
Keystone Print Group, Erie, PA 2014 to 2016
Commercial printer with an in plant design team serving manufacturers and school districts
- Laid out catalogs, forms and brochures to customer specification on tight press schedules.
- Checked incoming customer artwork for bleed, resolution and font problems before plating.
- Learned press behavior by standing at the press during makeready twice a week.
Licensure and Certification
Member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Pittsburgh chapter
Adobe Certified Professional in Adobe Illustrator
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014
Certificate in packaging production, Community College of Allegheny County, 2018
Core Skills
Identity systems · Typography · Brand guidelines · Packaging design · Print production · Prepress and color · Art direction · Template systems · Vendor management · Design review