< Tracy Hopcus
tracy@inklingstudio.net

01/02 - present
Art Director; Inkling Studio
Clients: Classmates.com, l.a.Eyeworks,TurboTax, Casablanca Fan Company, The New School of Cooking, Edgemar Center for the Arts
www.inklingstudio.net


EDUCATION
May 1998
BFA in Graphic Design
California Institute of the Arts / Valencia, California

Previous Positions
10/98 - 03/02
Senior Designer
Seigelgale / Los Angeles, Ca.
Work with large scale clients on extending their brands online and offline. Leading projects from creative conceptualization through production and execution. Clients: Jiffy Lube, Experian, Microsoft, Sony, Technicolor, Rockwell, CB Richard Ellis, eBates, eHobbies, Hooked on Phonics

05/97 - 10/98
Designer
Worthington Design / Los Angeles, Ca.
Web & print design
Clients l.a.Eyeworks, Xlarge clothes, The Getty Los Angeles Culture Net

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
May 2003–present
Digital Media Instructor
California Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA/Innerspark) / Calarts, Valencia, California. Instructed courses in iMovies, iDVD along with an independant project class. Technical director of Art School MacLab which consists of troubleshooting, staffing and budgeting the lab.

January 2003–present
Visiting Instructor & Technical Director,
Art School MacLab
California Institute of the Arts / Valencia, California. Instructed courses in iMovies, iDVD along with an independant project class. Technical director of Art School MacLab which consists of troubleshooting, staffing and budgeting the lab.

September 2001
Visiting Instructor / California Institute of the Arts / Valencia, California. Taught web design class to first year students and created site to showcase student work.

5/95 - 8/97
Teaching Assistant / Cultural Arts Partnership / Pasadena, California. Taught a high school letterpress class at Pasadena's Armory Center for the Arts. Designed catalog's to showcase student work.

1/96 - 5/98
MacLab Teaching Assistant / California Institute of the Arts / Valencia, California. Teaching assistant in the Art School MacLab. Responsible for maintaining equiptment in computer lab and assisting students with technical issues.

More Miscelaneous Client List
Fanscape Music Management / Los Angeles, California
Web design

NextLeft / Los Angeles, California
Web design
clients: Mighty Dog, Friskies

Designer
O'Grady Meyers / Palos Verdes, California
Web design
clients: PowerBar, Mission Foods

Designer
l.a.Eyeworks / Los Angeles, California
Web & print design

Designer
Xlarge Clothes / Los Angeles, California
Web design

RECENT INVITATIONS

06/04
Book design with Michael Worthington for Rodney Grahams exhibition book A Little Thought.

04/02
Invited to interview for web designer position at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN. The 6 candidates were culled from a group of 350 resumes submitted from designers around the world.

AWARDS
Art Directors Club 77th Annual (Silver Medal winner 1998) Xlarge site

Standard of Excellence: Hop.com (Hooked on Phonics)2000, www.webaward.org


PUBLISHED WORK
Work published in: Type in Motion, Worthington / Hopcus Rizzoli, pp140-141, 168-171 (1999)

Work published in Eye, Designers in LA, Worthington / Hopcus pp 26-27, 36-37 (#31 1999)

Article / work published, Web Studio Secrets, Typography Chapter (1998)

Work published in New Design:Los Angeles (1998)

Work published in Cool Sites: Freeze Framed and Down Cold, HBI, pp142-143 (1998)

TECHNOLOGIES
Mac (15+ yrs.) / PC (7+years): Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, Flash, BBEdit, Dreamweaver, Premiere, SoundEdit, Director, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, iMovies, iDVD, PowerPoint.

Advanced in Web design. Fluent with HTML. Highly knowledgeable with various languages and systems used to create websites and their backend server setups.

CD ROM experience. Creating user interfaces, look and feel, and seeing them through to production.

Experienced with digital video editing.

Prepress skills. Hands on knowledge in photography, letterpress (platemaking, printing), bookbinding and silkscreening.

References & portfolio available upon request