Graphic Design Pathfinder: People On The Move 9/28/07

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People On The Move 9/28/07

G2 Branding & Design has a new chief creative officer; Leslie Singer. She was managing corporate communications efforts at 10/1 in Westport, CT. In St. Louis, Russ Angelo becomes the senior art director at Marketing Direct, Inc. Amy Simmons has been assigned to the associate publisher at Fitness magazine in New York. She was at Jane magazine in the same capacity.

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People on the move

The world of graphic design is under constant change and keeping up with old contacts, as well as new ones is critical to your career path. The simple fact of having a name gives you a competitive advantage. The Pathfinder has searched graphic design, printing and marketing trade publications to bring you the latest moves in the industry.

Regardless of how bad the economy, people are still moving around in the marketing and graphic design industry. • Bill Seitz at DMW Worldwide just got promoted to assistant art director. Bill worked his way up from a designer position at the firm. Daina Middleton has signed on with Sunao as the senior VP of Sunao. This is Moxie's division on online marketing trends. On the creative side, David Goodrich also joined up with Sunao as a senior VP and managing director. He brings over 15 years of experience in creative digital marketing to the table. Natanya Anderson, who was the creative director, has been promoted to VP of content strategy at Powered. Lisa Sullivan-Cross is now the VP at Nielson Business Media. She will be in charge of the online marketing, media & visual arts group. Jason Smith moves into an account executive position at Demi & Cooper Advertising in Elgin, IL near Chicago. Jason was the president at PivotPoint Marketing and Communications. Doug Rozen moves from Chicago to Minneapolis to be vice president at Carlson Marketing. Doug was at RMG Connect at JWT as a senior partner and managing director in Chicago. Also in Minneapolis, Patty Henderson becomes the director of the interactive department at Colle+McVoy. She comes from Target where she led the strategic planning for categories. Plenty of moves being made in the marketing and design landscape! Lots of moves happening at Agent 16 in New York. Tony Cordero has moved to the position of executive creative director at Tribal DDB. Laurie Axberg is the new art director on the Salem accont. Laurie was the graphic designer at Park B. Smith Ltd. in a freelance capacity. So, you never know where a freelance position will lead you or who you'll cross paths with! Mark Ely moves from SADG in Dallas to Baltimore to be the senior creative director at Vertis. In Chicago, Jim Hamptonwas promoted to art production supervisor at AbelsonTaylor. He was formally the associate art production supervisor. On the Internet side of things, Eric Rayman has become senior vice president of marketing and sales at Quepasa in Scottsdale, AZ. Prior to his move, he was the chief operation officer of Budget Living magazine. TBWA/Worldwide has a new managing director – Robert Harwood-Matthews. He was formerly the CEO of TBWA/Manchester. Want to know what to bring to a graphic design interview? Find out here »

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