I am an award-winning Art Director, Designer, Photographer, Illustrator and Educator who has worked in corporate, publication, and advertising agencies for eighteen years. My specialty is publication design, book and magazine design, and children's book design. My work has been shown regionally and nationally, and I have judged academic and advertising design competitions across the country. My design work places conceptual emphasis on the aesthetic beauty and importance of typography within the vast realm of visual communication. My current design portfolio is a diverse collection of print collateral, digital design, web and multimedia projects.

I possess excellent communication skills, conceptualization ability, and have many years of experience in art directing both photography and video. I work very closely with my clients in order to provide the best possible design, illustration and photography for my clients' various project needs.

I work in a large variety of media. I use a combination of traditional media such as pencil, colored pencil, ink watercolor and often my own traditional and digital photography to create custom designs and illustrations that have a unique and dynamic style. I often scan these hand-drawn elements in, and add them into my work to add emphasis and beauty to her digital design pieces. My work ranges from clean, corporate identities to richly layered, evocative print, web and multimedia pieces. I have always been inspired by the concept of montage, and  frequently combine and overlap multiple images with transparencies to create dynamic layouts.

I am currently teaching courses in the Graphic Design Program at the Art Institute of Ohio-Cincinnati. I have taught graphic design and photography courses at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH and Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC. I designed, developed and taught courses in the Communication Arts Program at Lees-McRae College. In 2004, I also created the new Photography Program for Xavier University, while teaching both photography and graphic design courses full-time as an Assistant Professor. If you wish to view additional samples of work in my Illustration and Photography portfolio, please go to www.kimhowes.com and click on the appropriate QuickTime movie on the portal page.

Consumer Goods, Consumer Services, Non-profit, Social Sector, Retail, Wholesale, Education, Media, Advertising, Publishing, Entertainment