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Benjamin D. Mauer
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 283-5764 | me@telephag.nu

A T T R I B U T E S

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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
HyperCard
Quark

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BBEdit
Pico

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 / Producer
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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