12/06 - PresentLaurie Phillips Design, St. Paul, MN

Design work for Larsen Design (Wassau Paper), Kirkpatrick Design (Minnesota Opera, Medtronic, Minnesota Humane Society), Woychick Design (University of Minnesota Medical Bulletin, Bush Foundation Fellows Report), and the League of Rural Voters for print and electronic media.

9/98-9/05Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, Eagan, MN

Seven years as a Senior Graphic Designer included strategic discovery and position definition, concept development, design, layout, and production of electronic keylines and interactive media using InDesign/Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator. Project management included presenting design strategies, developing and communicating specifications for estimating purposes, and managing projects to predetermined budget and quality standards.

2/98-8/98Laurie Phillips Design, St. Paul, MN

Clients included the St. Paul Companies, OnHealth Network Company, Flying Cloud Media Group and Meyers Design, for web graphics development, print design and production.

11/94 - 1/98IVI Publishing, 7500 Flying Cloud Drive, Eden Prairie, MN

Design, layout and production for health care web sites Mayo Clinic Health O@sis, HealthPartners, Oxford Health Plan, and HealthSystem Minnesota’s intranet. CD-ROM projects required designing and producing user interfaces for Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente.

11/92 - 11/94The Nancekivell Group, Minneapolis, MN

Layout and typesetting corporate annual reports for General Mills, Cowles, and Multifoods.

11/88 - 10/92McCool & Company (formerly part of Fallon), Minneapolis, MN

Responsible for doing final layouts and comps, typesetting and illustration. Also in charge of training design staff on computer software.

1/88 - 10/88Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

Freelance work for the Exhibits and Graphics departments required layout, keylining and light boxes displays.

2/87 - 8/87Landor Associates, San Francisco, CA

Freelance projects involved tight, finished comps for the identity/signage of a major airline, producing models, simulation of printed pieces and visual presentation of comps.

10/86 - 8/87Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Publications, San Francisco, CA

A staff position as layout and keyline artist on three magazines.

EDUCATIONMinneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

MFA program (ABT) 2006
Emphasis public art; received Trustees’ Scholarship.

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
BA in Fine Arts
Emphasis printmaking. Graduated 1979.

OTHER SKILLSFine arts grants and commissions

Weisman Museum, Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Forecast Public Artworks, St. Paul Companies, Jerome Foundation. To see my Fine Arts portfolio, please visit mnartists.org/laurie_phillips

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