Benjamin D. Mauer
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 283-5764 | me@telephag.nu
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Strong visual thinker and communicator. |
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Ever curious about the nature of visual and information design on the Web and across media.
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Work best in a collaborative, smart, team-oriented setting. |
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Very well-versed in high Web and print production.
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Solid illustration skills (with strong personal style and thoughtfulness for the screen). |
F O R M S Web Print Comix Video Books Animation
T E C H N O L O G I E S HTML/XHTML JavaScript CSS PHP Apache
S O F T W A R E (Scale of 1 to 3. 1 = Familiarity / 3 = Whiz Kid)
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Dreamweaver
Photoshop
Illustrator
ImageReady
GoLive
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InDesign
FreeHand
Fireworks
Flash
Director
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Premiere
FinalCut
GifBuilder
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Quark
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BBEdit
Pico
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O P E R A T I O N S Mac Unix NEXTSTEP Windows
E X P E R I E N C E
Now
ITWP, Brown University | Web Designer / Administrator
Part of an interdisciplinary team for The Information Technology, War and Peace Project out of the Watson Institute at Brown University. Design and maintain infopeace.org/911, a special site offering deeper analysis of September 11 and its aftermath. Play a key role in shaping the visual identity of ITWP.
+ http://www.infopeace.org/911
media.hampshire.edu | Web Designer / Information Architect
Designing and architecting a site for the Media Program at Hampshire College (Film, Photo, Video, Digital Media, Media Criticism), including templates and training. The site literally mediates between many different approaches to media production and criticism, acting as a central node to support the innovative and interdisciplinary community of students and faculty making media at Hampshire. To be fully functional Summer 2003.
+ http://media.hampshire.edu
Spring 2002
Digital Newsroom, Hampshire College | Mentor / Instructor
Volunteer at Holyoke Digital Newsroom, a teen computer literacy program based at Hampshire College and Holyoke, MA. Develop curriculum and work with youth to create anything from stop motion animations to personal home pages.
Fall 2001
Community Partnerships, Hampshire College | Web Designer / Training
Collaborated with Community Partnerships for Social Change, a non-profit based at Hampshire College, to develop a website that frees the staff to concentrate on building relationships rather than repeating information. After a series of informal trainings, they now update the site autonomously.
+ http://communitypartnerships.hampshire.edu
Digital Newsroom, Hampshire College | Mentor / Instructor
Spring 2001
Macrocosm, Hampshire College | Art Director / Designer
Art directed and designed Macrocosm, a 160-page, offset-printed, perfect-bound,
metallic-inked interdisciplinary journal of student work at Hampshire College
under a tight deadline.
Spring Jam, Hampshire College | Poster Designer
Designed the poster for one of two major
annual events at Hampshire College, Spring Jam. Worked with printers
to produce 150 high quality, two-color (with a metallic overprint) posters,
on glossy card stock. All within a two-week timeframe
Hampshire College Women's Center |
Web Designer / Training
Worked closely with Women's Center staff to develop a functional and
easy-to-maintain site in three days. Then I collaborated with Abby, a Web Development
Coordinator at Hampshire, to set up two all-women training sessions,
getting the staffers up to speed on Dreamweaver for updating and maintenance.
+ http://womenscenter.hampshire.edu
The Public Eye: The Surveillance Society
| Class Website
Concepted, designed and implemented a class website and listserv for
Julia Meltzer, Professor
of Video and Digital Media at Hampshire. Developed Dreamweaver templates
and a CSS stylesheet for easy updating and maintenance.
Digital Newsroom, Hampshire College | Mentor / Instructor
Summer 2000
Wired Digital, San Francisco |
Junior Designer
Juggled multiple design projects at a time on a tight schedule.
Collaborated with product managers, production kids, design
directors in the SF office and the Lycos office in Waltham, MA. Took
part in weekly product management meetings that determined product
strategy, implementation, and development goals for Lycos Music.
+ http://music.lycos.com
Spring 2000
Biopirate.com, Hampshire College | Web
Designer / Producer / Illustrator
Orchestrated a website / direct-action sticker campaign to
inform the public about the lack of labeling on genetically engineered foods.
Managed Web team members (production guy, coder). Designed
biopirate.com brand identity.
+ http://www.biopirate.com
Summer 1999
Duffy & Shanley, Providence
| Junior Web Designer
Worked in small interdisciplinary project teams (the web designer,
the art director, freelancers, print designers, production assistants, account
executives, upper management, etc.) in a small, competitive ad agency. Played
a critical role in a cross-media ad campaign to drive traffic to projo.com:
participated in creative, strategy, and client meetings; designed and produced
banner ads. Redesigned the agency's client extranet from scratch.
Designed and produced the Providence Center website.
Fall 1998 - Present
PAWSS, Amherst | Web Designer
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Orchestrate the PAWSS (Five College Program in Peace and World
Security Studies) website (100+ pages) = responsible for all design, production,
and programming. Implemented my redesign that is more visually
appealing and navigable, and takes advantage of PAWSS' new server platform (Apache
on Solaris). Developing documentation for the PAWSS staff on
adding and maintaining content.
+ http://pawss.hampshire.edu
E D U C A T I O N
Graduate of Hampshire College in Amherst,
MA, Spring 2002. Thesis: a web-based installation on the intersections of transgendered identity, masculinity and technology. Graduated (Salutatorian) in 1998 with Honors
from Jackson High School in Jackson, OH.
R E F E R E N C E S available upon request.
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