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Professional Resume:
A Creative Director/Art Director/Graphic Designer with both client direct and agency experience, Gillian Gough has produced marketing/promotional materials for a wide variety of industries through the creation of unique corporate brand identities and engaging advertising campaigns. Her extensive design expertise includes web sites, books, brochures, annual reports, direct mail campaigns, newsletters & magazines, packaging, signage, outdoor advertising, and trade show display systems.
Gough’s diverse client list includes cruise lines, law firms, movie studios, retail stores, publishers, manufacturers, medical groups, insurance agencies, investment companies, universities, and non-profit organizations.
Experience
2002 to Present– GoughTookeyDesign/Pasadena, CA
President, Creative Director of an award-winning marketing communications company specializing in creative
promotional concepts: books, annual reports, identity programs/branding, corporate image brochures, direct mail
marketing, print ad campaigns, outdoor advertising, and web design.
– Oversees all aspects of the business
– Creates and/or supervises all client projects
– Recruits new business
– Marketing problem solving
– Creates presentations
– Hires and manages staff and/or freelance designers, writers, photographers, illustrators and printers
– Manages budgets per client/job
– Supervises production of all projects from pre-press through printing and delivery
Special Accomplishment: Designed and produced Princess Cruises’ award-winning, 224 page hard bound,
“coffee table” cookbook, selling in excess of 200,000 copies to date
Partial client list includes:
– Aon Construction Services Group
– IndyMacBank
– Mobile Storage
– Pasadena Water & Power
– Princess Cruises
1990 to 2002 – G&O Design, Inc./Pasadena, CA
President & CEO of a visual communications company designing and producing trade publications, books, annual reports, corporate identity, print advertising, packaging, capital campaigns, and promotional materials
Special Accomplishment: Designed and produced award-winning capital campaigns for both The Pasadena
Humane Society and the Huntington Library, exceeding their expectations in both response and donations.
Partial client list includes:
– CenFed Bank
– Inter-Con Security, Inc.
– Jacobs Engineering
– Los Angeles Times
– The Parsons Corporation
– Pasadena Humane Society
– Southern California Defense Counsel
– World Vision
1987 to 1990 – Gough Studio/Pasadena, CA
Design, Art Direction and Marketing Services: independent contractor creating motivational marketing materials.
Special Accomplishment: Winner of a ProAward from the Public Communicators of Los Angeles (PCLA) for
Starlight Children’s Foundation’s annual report
Partial client list includes:
– Buena Vista Film Distribution
– Day, Simonds & McInerny Insurance
– Albert G. Ruben & Company, Inc.
– Southwestern University School of Law
– Woodbury University
1985 to 1987 – Chrysalis Records, Inc./Los Angeles, CA
Manager of Art Department and head designer, responsible for creating and producing promotional materials: album covers, posters, print ads, single sleeves, POP displays, stickers, pocket folders/press kits
Partial artist list includes:
– Pat Benatar
– Billy Idol
– Blondie
– Huey Lewis and the News
– Spandau Ballet
1980 to 1985 – Freelance/Los Angeles, CA
Art Direction/design creative for advertising agencies and graphic design firms.
Partial agency/firm list includes:
– Young & Rubicam
– J. Walter Thompson
– Kresser, Mazner & Robbins
– BBDO West
– Saul Bass & Associates
1978 to 1980 – Boylhart, Lovett & Dean/Los Angeles, CA
Art Director responsible for designing marketing collateral including brochures, print ad campaigns, corporate
identities, and direct mail.
Special Accomplishment: member of design team responsible for creating custom logo/typeface for
Coldwell Banker still in use today
Partial client list includes:
– Coldwell Banker
– R&G Sloane
– FMC
– KFAC Radio
– Jerseymaid
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts – University of Puget Sound/Tacoma, WA
Post Graduate Studies – Art Center College of Design (Design)/Pasadena, CA
– UCLA Extension (Marketing)/Los Angeles, CA
– Platt College (Computer), Pasadena, CA
References furnished upon request.
View current work at: www.goughmarketingdesign.com
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