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Samantha C.S. Jones
Natural Media | Special Skills & Interests | Computer Skills | Clients & Projects | Coursework | URLs
EDUCATION:
B.A. summa cum laude, Wheaton College
NATURAL MEDIA:
- Pen & Ink
- Pencil & Colored Pencil
- Oils
- Acrylics
- Watercolors
- Hand Painted/Dyed Silk
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SPECIAL SKILLS & INTERESTS:
- Scientific, medical, & botanical illustration
- Sci fi and fantasy illustration
- Murals/large panel illustrations for educational & home settings
- Clay, plaster, and welded metal sculpture
- Multimedia composition and Web-page development
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COMPUTER SKILLS:
- Adobe Photoshop 6.0
- Adobe Illustrator 9.0
- Adobe Pagemaker 6.5
- QuarkXpress 5.0
- Adobe Acrobat 7.0
- Homesite 4.5
- Dreamweaver 4.0
- Fireworks 4.0
- Flash 5.0
- MacOS, Win95/98, 2000, XP
- Microsoft Office:
Word
Excel
PowerPoint- HTML 4.0
- XML
- Javascript
- WS FTP
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CLIENTS & PROJECTS
Illustration:
- Little Brook Artworks, various bird and botanical illustrations
- People, Places, & Plants, March-April 2002 issue: water garden illustration
- FEDCO Seeds Annual Catalog: Illustrations of varieties of garden produce
- Quincy Bog Natural Area, Rumney, NH: Illustrations of protected and native flora
- Harvard Medical International: Medical Disaster Response Manual
- Time/Life Old Farmer's Almanac: Medicinal Herbs, by Martha White
- The Psychology Place Website: Interactive Olfactory System Activity
- Compantion Web Site to Stephen Davis' Abnormal Psychology Textbook: Comprehensive Brain Activity
- Microsoft Word and Excel 2000 software manuals
- National Fire Protection Association: National Electric Code Training Packet
- National Science Foundation: Annual Report on Women and Minorites, 1998
Desktop Publishing:
- Bondholder Communications, Manhattan, NY: Developed design and layout for a nationwide brochure mailing.
- nSight, Cambridge, MA: worked in the following capacities in the production and Web departments:
- Illustrator/Graphic Artist
- Graphics Production Specialist
- Project Manager/Web Producer for numerous print and Web projects for clients including Addison Wesley Longman, Pearson Education, and the National Science Foundation, amongst others.
- Trainer for Web projects using customized Web-based authoring tools
- Layout Specialist
- Penobscot Bay Press, Stonington, ME: Graphic/Photo editing, Ad layout, Web management.
- First Parish Church, Cambridge, MA: Layout of weekly bullein, and other print materials.
Logo Design, Corporate Identity, & Marketing:
- PROTEA Behavioral Health Services, Bangor ME: Complete logo redesign for multiple applications including advertizements, business cards, newsletters, and large trade signs.
- Twin City Corporate Services, Bangor, ME: Developed logo and corporate identity package for both print and Web applications.
- Capestries Headwear, Appleton, ME: Designed logo, business cards, and brochure, including illustrations of products.
- Willow Therapeutics Brattleboro, VT: Developed logo and corporate identity for all brochures, business cards, signage, labelling, and packaging, including botanical illustrations for products.
- Maine Association of Mental Health Services, Augusta, ME: Developed logo and corporate identity package for both print and Web applications.
- Merchant Warehouse, Boston, MA: Logo redesign for print and Web applications.
- Maximillian's Coffee Shop & Deli, Mansfield, MA: Designed and implemented a logo to market a subsidiary catering business, including newspaper advertisements, menus, contracts, business cards, stationary, and price lists.
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URLS:
Web Design, Development, and Management:
- Maine Woods Furniture
- Burdick & Booher
- Willow Therapeutics
- Penobscot Bay Press
- Shutterbuggers
- Traub Furniture
- Brady Books
- Companion Web Site to Freeman, Evolutionary Analysis, 3e
- Companion Web Site Bridge Page to Tro Introductory Chemistry
- Companion Web Site to Triola Elementary Statistics, 8e
- Addison Wesley Longman Companion Web Site to the Bittinger, Ellenbogen, and Johnson Graphs and Models Series
- Companion Web Site to Miller, Heeren, Hornsby's Mathematical Ideas, 9e
- Companion Web Site to Weiss: Elementary Statistics, 5e
- Companion Website for American Government: Continuity and Change, 2000 Edition
- Companion Web Site to America, Past & Present, 5e
- National Science Foundation: Annual Report on Women and Minorites, 1998
Production Specialist:
- Companion Web Site to America, Past & Present, 5e
- National Science Foundation: Annual Report on Women and Minorites, 1998
COURSEWORK & APPRENTICESHIPS:
Studio Apprenticeships
- Worked under medical illustrator E. Penny Pounder at Pengraphics, Winchester, MA. Rendered poster-sized anatomical/medical drawings for legal clients to be used in the courtroom.
- Studied under Dana Harlow, zoological illustrator for the journals Science and Nature, at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA
- Studied under botanical illustrator Linda Funk, Blue Hill, ME on an independent project using pencils and watercolors.
Studio Coursework:
Have taken formal courses in Drawing, Painting (oil, acrylic, & watercolor), 2-Dimensional Design, 3-Dimensional Design, Clay Sculpture, and Welding. Provided a strong foundation in the composition and manipulation of light, color, and objects in space.
Multi-disciplinary Study:
Incorporated work in forensic osteology and anatomy into a sculptural reconstruction of facial features from a human skull
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