April Osmanof | Portfolio

Education

• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
• MFA: Graphic Design
• Completed 2008

• BFA: General Sculptural Studies, Video Concentration
• Completed 2003
• Cum Laude

Work Experience

• Fastspot
• Designer and Producer
• 2008 - Current
• Responsibilities include designing sites, information architecture, site production, flash programming.

• Urbanite Magazine
• Graphic Design Internship
• Fall 2007
• Responsibilities included designing ads, editorial layouts, illustration, design on marketing campaigns, and pre-press for local Baltimore monthly publication.

• Rubicon Productions
• Production Assistant
• 2005 – 2008
• Part of film crew for multiple shoots. Assembled and designed sets, built props, aided with lighting, and managed costumes for many documentary films including Secret Weapons of World War II, AKA Documentary.

• Hennes & Mauritz (H&M)
• 2006
• Design and set-up of displays for retail store layouts.

Teaching Experience

• Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)Teaching Internship 2006–2007
• • Typography 1
  • Aided in critiques and demos.
  • Publication Design
  • Aided in Critiques and taught publishing Demos.
  • Assisted in Indie Publishing seminar at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
  • Taught basic InDesign skills for self publishing.
  • Maryland Summer Program for the Arts
  • Designed lesson plans and taught independent Design/Magazine class for high school students.
• Ed Solutions
• • 2000–2005
  • Site Director
  • Supervised, designed lesson plans, and taught at education-based after school program.
• Young at Art Children's Museum
• • 1998
  • Ran culturally based out-reach program for under-privlidged children, planned lessons, taught classes and organized community based art shows.
  • Designed and built hands-on exhibitions.

Self Initiated Projects

• What Do You Look Like When Only Your Bones Are Showing?
• Wrote, illustrated and self published children's book.

• Building Blocks
• Wrote, illustrated and self published picture book.

• Hungup.org
• Curated and designed online gallery/publication.

Featured publications

• MICA Graduate Program (graduate thesis site design)
• Indie Publishing (expected 2009)
• Graphic Design: The New Basics 2008
• splotches.org 2006