About Mark King

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Mark King is an accomplished graphic designer and illustrator whose work has furthered the goals of business and community for over 25 years. Mark's expertise includes design for identity; collateral; trade magazines; direct mail; catalogs; packaging; outdoor advertising; design, illustration and art direction for web/internet.

Helpful sounding board • Strong communication skills • Artist and hobbyist musician • Recently celebrated twelve years dba Mark King Creative

"Top-shelf idea person who has contributed to mission-critical projects during my time at Indiana University East."
John Dalton
Director of Communications and Marketing, Indiana University East

"Mark is a very talented designer with a wildly creative mind. His visions are always outside-of-the-box and he consistently produces work with a stamp of uniqueness."
Stephen Salcedo
Director of Marketing at Vera Bradley

"As a young designer, I looked at Mark as a model for the type of designer I wished to be. His creativity has a way of elevating the work of those around him."
Arrick Garringer
Owner/Creative Director at Windmill Marketing

Resume 2023 - click to download single page PDF
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Resume
Mark Kenneth King
Graphic Designer/Illustrator
5020 Lemans Drive, Apartment L12
Indianapolis, IN  •  765-256-2292
markkingcreative.weebly.com

SKILLS
Highly experienced graphic designer and art director for print and web.
Accomplished illustrator — broad range of styles — digital and traditional.
Specialties: excellent typography; clean and elegant design; pixel and vector illustration;
very skilled at drawing and acrylic painting (loose or tight); digital image retouching.
Hobbyist musician with extensive music recording and editing skills; some video editing experience in Kapwing and Adobe Rush.
Twenty years of experience in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Acrobat and others. Solid experience in PowerPoint; not skilled in Word or Excel.

EDUCATION
Burris Laboratory School (now Indiana Academy)

WORK HISTORY

Owner
Mark King Creative
Self-employed 2010 - Present · 12 yrs 9 mos
Muncie, Indiana, United States
Committing twenty years of graphic design experience to furthering the goals of business and community.
Working primarily remotely, which requires strong communications skills. “Design is the body language of your marketing. Don’t slouch.” (Mark King Creative motto)

Art Director
Kern Creative Group
Jul 2008 - Jun 2010 · 2 yrs
As Art Director at this hybrid web development and visual design firm: designed websites, corporate identity, catalogs, advertising, and more. Produced social media and web-destined graphic elements to particular requirements.

Art Director
CS Kern, Inc.
Jun 2005 - Jul 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos
Worked directly with all clients; collaborated with sales and supervised graphic designers, web developers, prepress and pressroom staff to ensure successful results. Won numerous design awards for company.

Art Director
ASA Racing LLC
2003 - 2005 · 2 yrs
Refreshed publications, event promotion, and marketing materials for this legendary regional motorsports sanctioning body. Learned a great deal about content wrangling — and working from MS Office source material — by single-handedly designing and producing the monthly ASA national newspaper.

Art Director
Rutter Communications Network
Jan 1997 - Nov 2001 · 4 yrs 11 mos
Sole Art Director, supervising one Graphic Designer, at this cable advertising sales and commercial television production company, which during my employment boasted 13 individual offices across the U.S. Directed two local client commercials and three company self-promotional spots.