BONNIE LALLKY-SEIBERT
ILLUSTRATOR
Specializing in digital collage, using skills based in traditional mediums, I combine photographs, cloth, paint, or clay models together in Photoshop. Vast editorial background, experienced team collaborator, participating in content, concept, design direction, and excellent knowledge of CMYK reproduction details. Strong photographic background, excellent realism in photo retouching and compositing.
Magazine work: Assistant Art Director, Mutual Funds Magazine, 3 years
Organizing art purchases and layout of 100-page glossy consumer business magazine. Hiring of photographers and illustrators, purchasing stock art, overseeing through delivery, layout and output. Designing typography, story icons, photo composites, charts, and tabular data.
Newspaper work: Graphic Artist, Sun-Sentinel newspaper, 11 years
Conceptualize and render daily deadline graphics for regional color newspaper. Variety of assignments from simple maps to complex cross-sectional graphics. Illustrations for feature and business sections rendered in traditional and digital mediums. Planning of art packages for special sections with an overall theme. Including type treatments, making props, backgrounds, and overseeing photography.
Skills:
Digital: Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, digital photography
Traditional: Colored pencil, airbrush, acrylic and watercolor paints
Propmaking: Large scale styrofoam letters, logos, props for studio photography
Clay models: Polymer clay miniature characters for photography and digital compositing
Fabric sculptures: Large scale stuffed fabric creatures for booth displays or photography
Awards:
NY Society of Illustrators, Humor I and Humor II Annuals
3-Dimensional Illustrators, Awards Annuals I, II, III, and IV
Hortt 30th and 33rd Exhibitions, Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale
LA Society of Illustrators, Illustration West 40th Exhibition
Memberships in: Illustrators Partnership of America B!G Illustration Group Graphic Artists Guild
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