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 Doris Tomaselli, graphic designer, illustrator, art director, author, and owner of Empress Creative opened her studio in 2006, having honed skills and talents in an expansive and varied career. Here's the experience that's behind every Empress project:• Honors degree in English Writing and Art, Westminster College (PA); Commercial Art & Illustration degree, Pace University (NY). Wrote and illustrated for both institutions' literary magazines. Illustrated the cover for No Time to Hurry, by Westminster poetry professor, Nancy Esther James. • Paid dues designing local telephone directory ads; pasting-up a bi-weekly newspaper; designing children's books for publisher, Paperwing Press. • Became Art Director for children's author, Mercer Mayer, (for whom she also painted special projects). Supervised four publishing companies (Mercer Mayer Productions, Mercer Mayer Ltd., Green Frog Publishers, and Rainbird Productions), and numerous and diverse merchandising projects for top publishers such as Golden Books, Dial, Macmillan, and Troll. • Authored 10 children's books (two best-sellers for Fisher-Price–My Little People® Farm and My Little People® School Bus), and designed others for Reader's Digest Young Families and Random House, specializing in intricate flap and die-cut formats and unique activity-related story-telling. • Became a one-woman art department for Business Digest magazine, and designer with TMS ad agency (now Cierant). Then graphic designer/product designer for Really Good Stuff®, a creative teaching products catalog company, where she dreamt up, brainstormed, and then produced 100+ innovative products and activities and produced (copywriting, too) 10+ catalogs annually. Many of her products were–and continue to be–long-running, top sellers. • Became Art Director/Manager of the promotions team at List Services Corporation, a direct mail services company, handling trade show materials, incentives, business presentations, corporate I.D., and both general and specialty advertising for clients, among them: Scholastic; Harriet Carter; Columbia House; Publishers Clearing House; Gevalia; TELEBrands; Belvoir Media Group, LLC; University Health Publications; Mayo Clinic; All American Crafts Publications; BASS, |
Links, Golfweek, Body & Soul and Archaeology magazines. • She signed on short-term with SI International art rep and worked behind the scenes digitally inking and painting books for licensed entities such as Tonka, Barney, Sesame Street, Groovy Girls and Totally Spies. During all, she free-lanced on all types of artistic assignments. A sampling: logos (Putnam County Children's Committee, Borador House, Capital Finance Solutions, Am-Lam Contracting Inc., Flex-Air Associates Inc., Brewster Chamber of Commerce, Nimbus-a rock band); Corporate I.D. (Financial Forensics LLC), brochures (The Sherman Historical Society, Sherman Chamber Ensemble, Club at River Oaks golf course); illustrations for publishing (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Just Us Books, Longman Inc., Addison Wesley, Grolier/Scholastic, Pace University, Dawn Valley Press, Bank Street Lab), drum head, backstage pass, tour logo and album art (Talking to Walls), tattoo art (commissioned); motorcycle logo and patch (Wright Wriders) and products (Conair, Gestetner, Martha Manion Jewelry Designs, and Hardware Designers, Inc.). billboards (Club at River Oaks); and product development (golfrelated and pet-related patent designs); charity (IBM fund raiser), and assisted with the launch of an environmentally-conscious e-tailer: www.terrasagestores.com. • Recent projects: a whimsical campus map and signage (Camp Kiwi), trail maps (North Salem Open Land Fund), editing a doctoral thesis, event ads (Brewster Chamber of Commerce), gala invitation (Putnam County Bicentennial Committee), mailer (Putnam County Retired Teachers Association), specialty greeting cards (Lisa Cohen, photographer) • Recent publishing credits: Collaborative author (with Carol Paterno, above) and designer, Mistover, The First Ten Years, a photographic retrospective; biographies, Ned Anderson: Connecticut's Appalachian Trailblazer and Small Town Renaissance Man for the Sherman Historical Society, and privately published, A Life in Color: The Memories of Florence Elizabeth Eugene Quammie; plus personalized vacation journals and family histories. Doris finds it most rewarding to work with people on their personal creative and publishing and to see such close-to-the-heart dreams realized. |
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