40 Park Avenue, 15H

New York, NY 10016

212-725-2663
dnlsilverstone@gmail.com

DANSILVERSTONE
Sr. Art Director/Designer with significant success creating advertising EXPERTISE INCLUDES:
campaigns, graphic design, brand identity, direct mail, collateral, web > Creating and delivering presentations and negotiating fees.

design and promotions for financial, real estate, security, transportation,
liquor, publishing, academic, technology, hospitality and music industry
clients both inhouse and at prestigious design/advertising agencies.
Success attributed to the talent, strategic and critical thinking, to spear-
head concepts that express client marketing objectives and a reputation
for producing fast, clean, exciting work.
> Selecting and directing talent and vendors and supervising creative teams.
> Developing and monitoring production budgets and schedules.
> Adapting research and concepts to target specific markets.
> Expediting work load traffic flow to meet publication and printer deadlines.
> Maintaining productive relationships with clients.
> Directing computer artists and production.
> Utilizing InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, HTML and Flash.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-2008 Loren Associates, New York
SR. ART DIRECTOR
Creative leadership and direction for a variety of blue chip real estate, financial, architectural and academic clients, including W&H Properties; Solow; Cushman &
Wakefield; Vornado Realty Trust; CBRE; Empyrean International LLC and Bronx Community College/CUNY. Responsible for development of concept, design and art direction
for print advertising, collateral, outdoor advertising and websites. Led team in all aspects of design, mentor, daily interface/presentation with clients, production values,
new business pitches.

2001-2004 Freelance (Euro RSCG / Wishbone Pharmaceutical / G2 / L’Oreal USA / Maersk Sealand)
ART DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Provided creative leadership and resourceful approach that landed clients including L’Oreal USA, Rockrose Properties, Kroll, Maersk Sealand, NYC Dept. of Sanitation and
Bruton Music. Created identity package for Maersk Sealand’s Pier 400, the largest of its kind in the U.S., completed within short timeframe for Los Angeles launch ceremony,
which received rave reviews. Developed patriotic campaign for Rockrose Properties Battery Park City to generate new tenants and maintain vitality in downtown area which
turned around negative perceptions following 9/11. Recruited by Creative Director, G2 Worldwide, to create new 2003 branding guidelines and brand implementation of
print/intranet collateral for Port Authority of NY & NJ and Kroll Worldwide Security Consultants. Most recent projects include Wishbone Pharmaceutical and Euro RSCG
Life Genecom assignments.

1997-2001 Gilliatt & Campbell, New York

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR
Directed creative staff and freelance talent at start up agency with 25 employees specializing in brand communications primarily for financial, telecommunications, and
insurance companies. Key clients included Chase, Amerin, BellSouth, Radian, Thomson ESG, Pearson Technology, RIA, and Fleet Capital. Designed logo and comprehensive
branding guidelines for RIA, national publisher of tax books used nationwide, that contributed to revitalizing market share. Created innovative, flexible, 4/c inhouse quarter-
ly publication that promoted vision of progressive client. Led team that created campaigns which matured and extended each year that differentiated client in highly compet-
itive environment despite parody of products.

1996-1997 Bozell Worldwide, New York

SENIOR ART DIRECTOR
Responsible for developing direct mail for MCI during industry’s boom which included creating DM packages that sustained initial win-back campaign and developing con-
cepts that launched new products. Additionally, contributed to conceiving solid strategy that convinced corporations that Unisys computer systems company could provide
external Help Desk services. Developed advertising concepts that incorporated key guest services into "nth degree in service” campaign for Renaissance Hotels.

AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS

The One Show Elduris Premium Vodka—Finalist/Direct Mail and Print Campaign (1988)
Warday Ad Selected by Robert C. Smith, Professor of Design, Washington University,
St. Louis, Missouri, as an example for his textbook “The Basics of Graphic Design” (1986)
Art Director’s Club Hearst Publications Logo—60th Annual Exhibition (1981)

EDUCATION
B.F.A. School of Visual Arts, New York, 1971
Parsons School of Design, 2007