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  • History of James

 

 

  • James Schlesinger
    history:


    • Digital era

    • Apple + Adobe CS (1-2-3-4-5-6) ... :

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    • schlesingerart and schlesingerweb art direction, graphic-, advertising-, web-design, development, hosting, production, illustration, photography, photoshop imaging ... (retired).
    • Canon Communications, llc (now UBM Canon) 7-years, medical and tech industry magazine publisher, Los Angeles: art director, graphic designer, narrative illustrator, page design, layout, photo scan and imaging, print production (Ps + QXP), ... e.g.s ◳pictorial trade show print ads and ◳[fabulous] trade magazine redo.
    • Book-text designer, page-layout, print production by contract c. 4-years (PM + QXP) including Lowell House Publishing (now part of McGraw-Hill) and Perpetua Press, Los Angeles. Museum book press-run supervision, Milan Italy 1994.

     

     

    • Digital schooling:
    • Adobe training, UCLA Extension, Venice Skills Center, ... Further:
      Jim Aitchison, Geoff Blake, Mark Boulton, Andy Budd, Dan Cederholm, Andy Clarke (Transcending CSS, 2007 [edited by Holzschlag]), Simon Collison, Jeff Croft (Ten Ton Dreamweaver, 2006), Van Duyne-Landay-Hong (The Design of Sites, 2007), Ben Frain, Molly E. Holzschlag, Lynda dotcom, Ethan Marcotte, Eric A. Meyer, Janice Redish, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Dan Rubin, Dean Scharf (HTML 3.2 Visual Quick Reference, 1997), Joe Sugarman, Rob Weychert, ...
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    • Pre-digital era1

    • Graphic- and advertising-design:

  • Brownlee Labs, Inc. (now part of PerkinElmer) 8-years, month-in month-out retainer, HPLC-chemistry products development, manufacture, catalog sales, Santa Clara: art director, graphic designer, company info/look-feel folders-, packaging-, advertising- (e.g. science magazine outside back cover), catalog-design and production (print magazine award of excellence), photography, ad agency contract services incl. printing, fabrication, ad space, ...
  • Steinhilber & Deutsch, Inc. (now DDW) by contract c. 10-years, corporate, exhibit design office, early computer indentity, beer, wine, packaging, labeling, San Francisco: design, illustration, finished art, lettering, print production, ...
  • Weber, Cohn & Riley, Inc. (later WCR) on–off c. 6-years (including 1⅟2-year design-studies sabbatical), full-service advertising agency, Chicago: art director, graphic designer, KFC-5-states-midwest (filmed Colonel Sanders at the Ice Capades), Arlington racetrack, residential real estate promotions, folders, bus ads, newspaper ads (notably Sun-Times), Chicagoland Homebuilders Association monthly magazine (c. 1-year solo cover-to-cover art direction, design, illustration, print production), ...

 

 

  • Design and art studies:
  • Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
  • Basel School of Design (AGS), Switzerland
  • Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
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  • 1(Tee-square, triangles, ◳drawing-board, chip-board, color pencils and pastels, “illustration-board,” “comps,” assembly, “finished-art,” X-Acto knife, ◳paste-ups, rubber-cement [jar and brush] and “pick-up,” Bestine solvent, tiny oil-can dispenser, tweezers, wax machines, acetate “overlays,” ◳Ruby- and Amberlith overlays, transfer-type [e.g., ◳Letraset], Lacey-Lucy [“camera lucida”], 18- 24-inch agates/points/picas/inch steel rulers, ◳French curves..., Koh-I-Noor waterproof lampblack ◳India ink, Winsor & Newton zinc white touch-up paint, series 7 size-00 sable brushes, Schneider ◳ruling pen,... type “spec’s,” “type-houses,” typographers, “lead type,” ◳hot metal typesetting [i.e. injection molded molten lead], e.g. ◳Linotype, Monotype, Ludlow,... Chicago Sun-Times lead- and cardboard ad castings,... ◳phototypesetting, “stat houses,” photostats, proportion wheel [% of the original], messengers [e.g., motorcycle-], photo-lab [my own] e.g. amber ◳sodium-vapor ceiling lamp, microprocessor-controlled Eskofot ◳photostat-machine [Denmark], 35mm auto-focus Nikon and 6x7 – 4x5 ◳Durst [Italy] enlargers; trays, chemicals, timer, running water..., stick-on register marks, punch and steel pin-register,... magnifying desk-lamp, print ◳spotting-bleaching-“knife-point” retouching,... masking-tape, tracing-paper flaps, ... ◳photo-engravers, Bluelines, Color Keys, Chromalines,... telephone answering service, 30-ft ◳Curly telephone extension cord,...)

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