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[ DESIGN WORK
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Designer and Programmer, Metropolis
Magazine | March 2001 to June 2001
Redesigned internal pages of web site and created house ads.
Editor and Designer, Stay
Free! | September 1993 to present
Self-publish a magazine focussed on American media and consumer culture (circulation 7,000), requiring extensive writing, editing, and graphic design; researching; interviewing
scholars; design and upkeep of website; advertising and newsstand sales;
and overseeing interns. • Stay Free! is nationally distributed
and used in several high school and college classrooms across the U.S.
and Canada. • Positive reviews in the New York Times, Metropolis,
Advertising Age, I.D., The Guardian, Mother Jones, and
Village Voice, among others. • Reprints in Harper's, Utne Reader,
emigré, and Media Reader.
Director of Advertising, Matador
Records | April 1995 to November 2000
Coordinated consumer advertising for Matador artists. Designed ads,
planned media campaigns and budgets. Founded company newsletter, Escandalo!
Edited, designed, and wrote articles.
Producer, Matador
Records | April 1995 to May 1999
Founded, designed, and programmed company website; wrote most content.
Press highlights: New York Times Online interview
and article, Wall Street Journal review, Yahoo! Internet
Life cover story, selected as one of the
world's Top 30 websites by Entertainment Weekly (1997), and nominated
Best Record Label Site by Cool Site of the Year (1997).
[ RELATED EXPERIENCE ]
Freelance Writer,
Print, emigré, Feed, Spin, Mother Jones, Village Voice. |
Webmaster, Monkeywire.org
| Board Member, Center for Commercial-Free Public Education,
1998 to present--Helped design website. | Advertising Columnist,
Village Voice, 1998 | Volunteer, Ralph Nader campaign,
1996--Designed pamphlet for Park Slope Greens. | Manager, WXYC-FM,
1989 to 1995--Founded and designed program guide.
[ SOFTWARE ]
Expert in QuarkXPress 4.1, Photoshop 5, and HTML hand-coding.
Working knowledge of Illustrator 8, Dreamweaver 3, Javascript, and Acrobat
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[ EDUCATION ]
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelor of Arts, Radio/Television/Motion Picture, 1991.
Carrie McLaren
390 Butler Street #3 | Brooklyn, NY 11217 | 718.398.9324
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