About

2001-Present: Gary Koeppel Design, Boston, MA
Freelance Illustrator, Designer
• Graphic design services; medical illustration, editorial illustration,
product illustration. Print design, logo design
• Contract work for Staples, instructional and product illustrations
• Contract work for Kryptonite bike locks, product illustrations for consumer packaging
• Product illustration for Ecco shoes for major distribution ad campaign in Newsweek

1993-2001: HealthStream, Inc. Boston, MA
Senior Multimedia Designer, Team Coordinator
• Designed user interface graphic elements, custom screen designs, style
guides for look and feel of educational CD-ROM and internet projects
• Executed medical illustrations and Flash animations for CD-ROM and internet
• Designed product branding for packaging, product brochures, magazine
ads and marketing materials
• Provided art direction for free lance designers, supervision of production staff
• Created standardization of formats for presentation of medical illustrations
• Developed image database of over 3,000 medical illustrations and clinical
images for company-wide access
• Oversaw batch processing of files to 8 bit, Gif, and JPEG formats as well as
flat bed and slide scanning, audio digitizing and editing, file server archiving
to CD-ROM
• Conducted quality assurance testing
• Created graphics for web casts

1987-1993: G. Koeppel Studios, Boston, MA
Principal
• Created full color and pen & ink illustrations for local and national accounts;
clients included AT&T, Bronner Slosberg Humphrey, Shawmut Bank, Leonard
Monahan Lubars & Partners, Rizzo Simons Cohn
• Executed editorial illustrations for The Boston Globe, Bostonia,
The Massachusetts Audubon Society
• Designed corporate identity brochures, business cards, letterheads, logos
and newspaper ads

Additional Experience
D&L Graphics, New York City, NY
Graphic Designer
• Promotion of national companies including Bristol Myers, Coty, Crane Co.,
Dun & Bradstreet, Western Union International, RCA Records
• Project manager for accounts from start to finish
• Manager of two employees

Conti Advertising, Montvale, NJ
Assistant Art Director
• Assisted on international accounts for heavy construction equipment:
Volvo, Komatsu
• Responsible for mechanicals, layouts, comps, type specing, photo
retouching and illustrations

Awards
National Educational Media Network:
1997 Gold Apple Award for Cardiac Imaging
1998 Gold Apple Award for Abdominal Ultrasound
1998 Bronze Apple Award for Human Brain Cancer

Applications
Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, Fractal Painter, Quark, Debabelizer,
Macromedia Director, Flash, Dreamweaver, Strata Studio Pro 3D,
BBEdit, HTML, Microsoft Office, Poser, Fireworks, ImageReady

Education
BFA Graphic Design Visual Communication, Dean's List
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Continuing Education
Museum School, Boston, MA
Macromedia Director, HTML Workshop, Advanced Web Design

Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Electronic Publishing Design (Pagemaker and llustrator programs)

MassArt, Boston, MA
Master Class intensive with George Nick

The New School, New York, NY
Printmaking, Life Drawing, Illustration

Memberships
Cambridge Art Association

Links

See my work in Directory of Illustration 25

www.directoryofillustration.com/ArtistPortfolioThumbs.aspx?AID=2884