NADIA STRASSER
(925) 330-3340
nadia@linesinmotion.com

EXPERIENCE

Sunset Publishing Corporation, Freelance Graphic Designer - Menlo Park, CA
• Graphic designer for Editorial, Marketing, Custom Publishing, and Books departments designing magazine layouts, advertisements, presentations, invitations, brochures, websites, and other marketing vehicles

Williams Sonoma/Pottery Barn, Graphic Designer/Illustrator/Production Artist - San Francisco, CA
• Graphic designer, iIllustrator and production artist for visuals in graphics department
• Art direct photoshoots
• Maintain communication with vendors and merchants to ensure quality and satisfaction

Unovo, Inc., Freelance Graphic Designer - San Francisco, CA
• Creative design of packaging, corporate identities, websites, brochures/mailers for product design company

1185 Design, Freelance Graphic Designer - Palo Alto, CA
• Creative design of corporate identities, websites, logos, annual reports, mass-marketing vehicles, industry communications
• Responsible for creating comps, presentation boards, and postings on web

Wayfinder Response Marketing, Freelance Graphic Designer - San Francisco, CA
• Creative development and design of mass-marketing vehicles

Scientific American Magazine, Art Direction Internship - Manhattan, NY
• Responsible for illustrations and layout for feature articles and special sections
• Creative development including typography, color palette, and page design
• Coordinating with editorial teams from concept to production

California Academy of Sciences, Freelance Botanical Illustrator - San Francisco, CA
• Illustrate botanical drawings for science journal publications
• Render in various media: pencil, pen & ink, watercolor, and computer graphics
• Work directly with principal scientists in sketch development

VBN Architects, Marketing Coordinator/Graphic Designer - Oakland, CA
• Responsible for content and design of promotional literature and presentations
• Accomplished in pre-press production including copy generation, image rendering, photo enhancement, and creative layout
• Managed outside vendors and suppliers, including photographers and printers

Hansen McArdle Landscape Architects - Lafayette, CA
• Drafted site illustrations and construction plans by freehand and AutoCAD as directed by architects
• Color-enhanced black and white drawings and generated plant requirement lists
• Creative design for corporate communications and website

Point Reyes Bird Observatory - Point Reyes, CA
• Field biologist/research assistant documenting information on a declining subspecies of song sparrows
• Responsible for spot mapping, vegetation identification and analysis, point count census, banding, and data entry

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE

Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Proficient with both Macintosh and PC platforms

EDUCATION

University of California Santa Cruz - Santa Cruz, CA
June 2003
Graduate Program in Science Illustration

University of California San Diego - La Jolla, CA
July 1998
Bachelor of Arts
Major: Studio Art and Biology (Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution)
Minor: Psychology

University of Otago - Dunedin, New Zealand
Winter and Spring Semester 1998
(Study Abroad Program)

University of California Davis - Davis, CA
Fall Quarter 1997
(UC Visitors Program)

La Selva Reserve - Costa Rica
Summer 1997
Assisted University of California researchers in fieldwork and data collection