Wendy Bryan
e-mail me at info at weebs dot org
Goal: To find freelance work as an illustrator, graphic designer or reporter.
Right Now
Designing T-shirts and accessories based on some happy little innards. Developing a graphic identity and logo for a photographer.
Editor
Flypaper - Stuck on Style
Edit, write and manage web log about fashion for Bluefly, an online retailer. Manage freelancers and budget, develop and write 5-8 story items 5 days a week, create original graphics. Visit the site. March 2005 - March 2008.
Web and Publications Manager; Adjunct Professor; Web Producer
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism; Columbia Journalism Review
Coordinated and helped copy-edit the school bulletin and newsletter; updated and copy-edited the school's Web site. Adjunct professor for Internet publishing and broadcasting. Helped various professors and students develop and build Web magazines; broadcast Columbia Radio News over the Internet; edited photos for Columbia News Service. Redesigned Columbia Journalism Review's Web site and uploaded new issues and web exclusive content to the site. Oct. 2001 - Dec. 2003.
Freelance Reporter & Contributor
Contributed stories to The City section of The New York Times, the Village Voice, Los Angeles magazine, and Metro New York. Wrote feature articles, contributed illustrations, photographs to Allstar, an online music magazine; Bunnyhop, a San Francisco based culture magazine; and Ben is Dead, a Los Angeles based culture magazine. Clips available at weebs.org/writing
Web and Graphic Designer
Current clients include: Blum & Poe, Bluefly, New Visions Foundation, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Editorial Emergency. I have also worked for House of Blues Digital, Getty Museum, National Arts Journalism Program, Live Concerts.com, 4AD.com, Internet Underground Music Archive, CMJ New Music Monthly, Music Boulevard, N2K Entertainment, New York Post, Yum Pop, Lite Brite Neon, Alicia Lawhon and Ability Potentials. 1995 - present. Portfolio available at weebs.org/design
Reporter
Conference News Daily/Earth Times
Reported and wrote international and local stories for an online daily newspaper covering business, globalization and the environment. Covered United Nations daily briefings, the National Urban League conference; wrote preliminary stories for the United Nations Special Session on Children and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meeting. June - Sept. 2001.
Reporter
Bronx Beat
General assignment reporter for a local weekly paper in the Bronx.
Jan.-May 2001
Co-founder and Contributor
Brillo magazine
Co-authored and designed issues of Brillo magazine, an online magazine and technological resource listing for women. July 1995 - Nov. 1997.
Education
M.S. Journalism, Columbia University, 2001.
B.A. Fine Arts, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1995.
Programs
Quark XPress, InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Image Ready, Real Producer, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, Javascript. Microsoft Office. Mac and PC literate.
References available upon request. |