Miriam Taylor

• Created and implemented a style guide for the tablet August issue
• Managed a staff of illustrators, photographers, videographers and designers to maintain brand consistency throughout the tablet and web
• Organized, scouted, styled, and directed photo shoots
• Designed cover and several interior pages
• Worked with InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe DPS and app builder to launch the inaugural issue of the millennial-centric magazine

Taught six sections of introdcution to graphic design to university students. Instructed students on the basics of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe DPS as well as general design principles.

• Used Woodwing/ Smart Connection to arrange pre-art, worked with NICA and in house photographers to locate and organize images for various issues, maintained and updated the "wall" and the "book"
• Contacted designers, art galleries and marketing personnel to attain hi-res images
• Used photoshop to silhouette photographs for print, aided in prepping images for print

As design editor, managed a staff of six designers, designed cover of the 2012-2013 yearbook, contributed interior design and planned the layout of the 2012-2013 yearbook

• Taught and graded a weekly lab class of 19 on the elements of design, managed lab hours weekly • Familiarized the students with InDesign, Photoshop, and Wordpress
• Graded weekly projects and assisted the lead professor with grading major projects and finals

• Taught and graded a weekly lab class of 19 on the elements of design, managed lab hours weekly
• Familiarized the students with InDesign, Photoshop, and Wordpress
• Graded weekly projects and assisted the lead professor with grading major projects and finals

• Personally assisted two senior editors with day to day tasks and contributed certain product ideas for “The Best” feature in the magazine
• Transcribed interviews, assisted with filing and secretarial duties, labeled and organized issue mailings, attended weekly editorial meetings, ran email correspondence between gallery showrooms and marketing staff of featured products and designers
• Worked with inCopy to label products and type captions within the layout of the magazine, proofed labels and contact information within my two editor’s features
• Assisted with on-site photoshoots and one-time off-site photo shoot for “Kitchen of the Year” event at Rockefeller Center and aided the stylest and prouction staff of the KOTY event

• Authored four articles for the specialty magazine after spending one week on assignment in Greenville, Mississippi
• Collaborated with the design team on magazine layout

• Pulled edit credits and familiarized myself with past issues to be able to assist sales assistants, labeled and organized issue mailings, assisted in training new interns with protocol and duties
• Assisted in organization of sales meetings and specialized events
• Aided with filing and secretarial duties
• Was given the opportunity to aid the sales representative with specific catagory presentations to take on sales calls