DOUGLAS ARTHUR MILSOM
(949) 859-1820
www.douglasarthur.com   
da@douglasarthur.com


SUMMARY

Creative, hands-on, Art Director with expertise in Photoshop, Illustrator, 
Quark, and Flash.  Strengths include conceptual design, traditional and digital 
illustration and photo manipulation.  Artistic, imaginative self-starter.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DOUGLASARTHUR.com, Lake Forest, CA 2001-2003
Creative Consultant

Freelance and In-house Design for many clients such as Kingston Technology, 
Behr Paint, AOLmobile and Vitesse Semiconductor.  Client base has mainly been 
focused on Flash development for kiosks, interactive web design and tradeshow
presentation.


XDRIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Santa Monica, CA 1999-2001
Art Director

Designed and implemented initial branding; including logo, collateral and web
presence.  Developed and managed Creative team.  Maintained a wide scope of 
creative projects for internal and external marketing.  

- Branded corporate website resulting in over 300% new sign-ups a day.
- Designed co-branded "skip the download" feature on Cnet's download.com, 
  increasing audience to 10 million a month.
- Enhanced existing sales presentations using multimedia tools such as Flash.
- Transformed static tradeshow presentations to include multimedia kiosks and 
  self running product demos.
- Produced all graphical elements for college club bus tour reaching over 50 
  colleges throughout the United States. generating over 500,000 new sign-ups.
- Designed and implemented logo standards manual.

THIRTY2DEGREES, Irvine, CA  1998-2000
Owner/Consulting Art Director

Managed three major accounts including numerous projects for various companies.  
Established identity, web presence, self-promotion and office space.  Responsible 
for client graphical needs and six contracted employees.

- Developed corporate identity including; logo, press kits, web presence, 
  corporate collateral, tradeshow artwork and office signage for clients such as 
  PacketVideo, Xdrive and www.com. Others include Throttle.net, Epoch Internet, 
  Scootlight and TouchCredit.

EPOCH INTERNET, Costa Mesa, CA	1997-1999
Graphic Designer						

Responsible for external client needs as well as internal client needs.

- Enhanced customer relations by focusing on clients needs.
- Worked with clients to help establish a language to communicate the client's 
  needs and goals.
- Administered advanced workshops in PhotoShop and Illustrator to employees.
- Provided internal photography for corporate website and various direct mail 
  pieces.


EDUCATION

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY  1997
Bachelor of Fine Art, Digital Imaging and Illustration
Minor in Art History


PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Thunder Lizard	 1998
Photoshop 5.0 and Illustrator 8 conference

Thunder Lizard	 2001
Photoshop 6.0 and Illustrator 9 conference


INTERESTS

Digital art, illustration, design and photography.  Fortunate to have a darkroom 
where I process and develop my own photography.  Majority of time is spent in my 
darkroom, viewing traditional art as well as working on my own artwork.