Creative Senoir Graphic Designer • Artist • Illustrator 

Renowned creative graphic designer with extensive experience in artistic design, as well as computer graphics, illustrations, murals, canvas paintings, and print media.  Passionate and inventive creator of unique and fresh strategies to developed and promote visibility and culture of brand. This includes book and magazine design, menu illustrations, and large-scale projects, murals and public art. Using design for creative problem solving.  

Experience  

STORE ARTIST • GRAPHIC DESIGNER WHOLE FOODS MARKET • Nashville, TN, (2013 – Present)    

• Efficiently manage art and promotional signage for all departments within the store.  

• Coordinate and produce, production for multiple programs from regional and global headquarters,  meeting deadlines on weekly, monthly, and rush basis as well as custom in  store projects, while maintaining store branding, and core values. Manage office functions to include ordering and maintaining all marketing, promotional,       and signage supplies. Training and oversee part time artists  

• Operate and maintain large format plotter for printing promotional materials for multiple  stores, and shipping to meet deadlines.

• Utilize Adobe CS, Illustrator, and Photoshop, as well as hand drawn     chalk art to cre

Art Director MUSIC CITY NEWS MAGAZINE Nashville, TN (1992-1995)   • Designed cover, inside layouts, ads, directed photo shoots, logos,        managed two graphic designers, supervised press checks    

Computer Graphic Designer  Cumberland Swan, Smyrna, TN (1989-1992)
• package designer, and product illustrator    

Graphic Designer Dr. Bone Savers, (skateboard assessories) Pompano Beach, FL (1987-1989)
•  Desinged Logos & Branding, Ads, Trade Show Booths, Illustration,      Stickers, t-Shirts, Product packaging and Illustration  Internship

Computer Graphic Designer Parents Magazine Delray Beach, FL (1987) • Designed story layouts and ads

FREELANCE and PUBLIC ARTIST Nashville, TN, 1995 - Present Efficiently manage and coordinate design production from concept through completion. Collaborate with clients to establish vision, conceive designs, and complete deliverables within project deadlines and requirements. Create and deliver highly persuasive sales marketing presentations, explicitly presenting features and benefits to cultivate client, customer engagement. Created new design themes and presented numerous clients with exceptionally creative and effective illustrations, paintings, murals, and computer graphic designs. Consistently recognized for fresh, innovative ideas and applications. CLIENTS IN GRAPHIC DESIGN: • Freelance Graphic Designer United Methodist Publishing House - Nashville, TN from (1994-2011) • Freelance Menu Graphic Design for Urban Grub, Bicyclette Café, South Street, Bound‘ry, and Chu Restaurants   ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS • Created numerous Children's Illustrations for publications of United Methodist Publishing House, • Limited edition children’s book for musician Charlie Daniels • Children's Book illustrations  for Abington Press, Nashville, TN:   Building A Heart of Faith, Sharing Gods Love with Children,     Alphabet Rhymes for Bible Time, Paul Says, Bibles Says and Jesus Says, • Developed creative and effective menu illustrations and layouts for multiple Nashville Restaurants.   PUBLIC ART for Nashville Metro Arts Initiate concepts and presentations for a panel of Commission Board members, along with other elected artists. Attended board meetings, designed concept models and sketches of finished art for the public to enjoy and interact with. Adjusted to changes as the project progressed, and as budgets were modified, while maintaining scope, and meeting final deadlines • “From A Birds Eye View” out door mosaic for Goodlettsville  Public Library • “Field of Corn and Sliced Tomato”  (Forged metal and painted) Nashville's Bike Racks Public Art Project,       Nashville Farmers Market and Bicentennial Mall PUBLIC ART, MURALS, and OTHER ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS: • Murals for South Street, Bound’ry, Chu, and Urban Grub Restaurants, Nashville, TN • Murals, Paintings and Menu Illustration Bicyclette Cåfe, Mt. Juliet, TN • Freedom of Expression commissioned Guitar by Charlie Daniels for the Charlie Daniels Museum, Nashville, TN • Let Freedom Sing Nashville's Guitar Town Project, Charlie Daniels Guitar, Nashville, TN and a second Guitar for Charlie Daniels     displayed at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN   • The Catfish Out of Water project for the Cumberland River Impact Project, Nashville, TN • Multiple Murals for Dinning Halls, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN • Murals for Dollar General Headquarters, Goodlettsville, TN • Ladies of Harvest Gemstone Mosaic Chu Restaurant Nashville, TN PAINTINGS Featured at GALLERIES and RESTAURANTS: • Urban Grub Restaurant• Nashville, TN (2007 - Present) • Eastland Café Restaurant Nashville, TN (2007 - Present) • Park Café Restaurant Nashville, TN (2001 - Present) • Website sales at paigeeaster.com (2003 - Present) • Albert F's Seaside, FL (2001 - 2004) • Galleria Veronese New Orleans, LA (2001 - 2005) • Outside the Lines Nashville, TN (1999 - 2002) • Local Color Nashville, TN (1996 - 2003)