Jennifer L. Ortwine,

Graphic Artist and Photographer

 

   M.F.A., Washington University

   St. Louis, Missouri

 

   B.F.A., Wayne State University

   Detroit, Michigan

 

Freelance Artist; President
  Pixelpot Studios Wixom, MI    01/2000 - present
 

Provide various contract work as a Freelance Graphic Artist:

Southfield, MI
Currently designing new website for Bell Tool Inc. (belltoolinc.com).

Detroit, MI
Re-designed a new ecommerce website for Detroit R&D, Inc. (detroitrandd.com).

Berkley, MI
Designed a new logo and website for The Groovy Baby Store (thegroovybabystore.com).

Kalamazoo, MI
Designed a website for Grace Photography (gracephotostudio.com).

Farmington, MI
Designed a presentation layout for Integrated Manufacturing Inc., for marketing use. Also redesigned their website (iminc.biz) to coordinate with the new look of their presentation.

Oak Park, MI
Created the layout design for a new card game (currently underway).

Farmington, MI
Photographed employees of Integrated Manufacturing Inc., for internal and external use.

Santa Rosa, CA
Created new logo for Big Cage Reptiles for various marketing materials (banner, business card, shirt).

Cincinnati, OH
Provided layout design and creation of a 4-color postcard for Cincinnati Children's Hospital.

Cincinnati, OH
Provided layout design and creation of a revised 2 color, tri-fold brochure for Children's Health Administrative Services.

Santa Rosa, CA
Created illustrated character and animation for Loopystore.com

Novi, MI
Provided layout design and creation of a new marketing 4 color, tri-fold brochure for LDHR "Leader" Consulting, LLC.

Orange, CA
Provided design creation of a new logo, business card and stationary layout for Bookkeepers Direct, an online accounting business.

Oakland, MI
Provided design layouts for Trinity Construction, LLC vehicle advertising.

San Jose, CA
Provided design layout and graphics for web redesign of MusicFan.com.

Bloomfield Hills, MI
Provided creative graphic support for print materials used in property proposal for Park Plaza North, LLC.

San Francisco, CA
Provided graphic support (interface design) on two enhanced CD projects for Blind Pig Records.

Oakland, CA
Provided creative and graphic support to Foxxdance Productions for 2 marketing CDs by software companies Cloudscape and Informix.

Chesapeake, VA
Provided graphic support to Vargas Media for the updated PatentTranslators.com (formerly JATCO) website.

Detroit, MI
Completed oversized poster for R&D Inc., for a scientific meeting, to promote sales.

 
Teaching Instructor
 

Henry Ford Community College

Washtenaw Community College

Dearborn, MI

Ann Arbor, MI 

01/1998 - 01/1999

1998 - 2000

 

Conducted courses in black and white photography with emphasis on control and understanding of the camera, film and paper and basic photographic processes.

 

Conducted course Photographic Design; an intensive review of photographic composition and design techniques with emphasis on design in the photographic image through lecture, demonstration, critique, and darkroom practices.

 
Graphic Artist/Research Assistant; Full and Part-time
  Wayne State University Detroit, MI    05/1997 - present
 

Creative support for faculty at the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Wayne State University to include annual reports, newsletters, diagrams, graphs, illustrations, posters and slides for regional and national scientific meetings.

 

2003: Production services for the EHS Center in Molecular and Cellular Toxicology, a National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Center, by typesetting/formatting and assembling the  entire 1,034 page competitive renewal grant application (and it's earlier renewal in 1998).
 

Photographical services for the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, by providing images to be used on website and in online flash movie for the Graduate Program in Molecular and Cellular Toxicology.
 

Print materials for the EHS Center in Molecular and Cellular Toxicology with Human Applications annual symposia, to include mailers, registration materials and posters.
 

Illustration/graphics, animation and 3D support for interactive online experiments and animation components used on the Environmental Cyber Schoolhouse website, a set of interactive, web-based stories for students in grades 9 through 12 which educates students on the topics of Lead and Asthma.

 
Teaching Assistant/Instructor
  Dept. of Photography, Washington Univ. St. Louis, MO    08/1996 - 04/1997
 

Conducted course in black and white photography with emphasis on control and understanding of the camera, film and paper and basic photographic processes.

 
Computer Graphics Artist; Part-time
  Washington Univ. Medical Graphics St. Louis, MO    08/1996 - 04/1997
 

Creative support for faculty and students at Washington University Medical School, which included medical diagrams and illustrations (as dye sublimation or image setter prints) and slides (via digital palette/rasterizer), for scientific meetings, publication and classroom use.

 
Computer Graphics Co-Worker; Part-time
  Kinko's Computer Services Brentwood, MO    01/1995 - 05/1996
 

Creative support (resumes, programs, brochures, menus, invitations and oversized posters) and technical support (maintaining network/printer connections, software questions) for clients and customers at Kinko’s Computer Services, Brentwood Office.

 
Production Assistant; Full-time
  MARS Advertising/Unique Concepts Intl Southfield, MI    01/1994 - 01/1995
 

Provided technical support for Production and Creative Departments to include trafficking of materials to account executives and assembling materials for final stages
prior to printing.