DANNY DRIES


Multimedia Artist, Designer, Writer


THE ARTIST
Paintings, Sculpture & Digital Art

THE WRITER
Fiction and Screenplays.

MacDRIES DESIGN

Multimedia graphic design, animation, photography, illustration, consultation and training. Experienced with standard graphic and multimedia programs, including Quark Xpress, Photoshop, Word and WordPerfect. Macintosh and (reluctantly) Windows.

Clients include:
Netscape Communications, ABC Online, Career Magazine, Broadway Interactive Group, MSN Emergency Broadcasting System, Siegel & Gale, Simon & Schuster Interactive, Winton/duPont Films, Times/Mirror Magazines, Openworld Interactive, Internet Business Consultants, Paramount Communications, Arthur Andersen Consulting, DDC Publishing, Rosalind Newman Dance Company, Tabak Realty, Bascomb & Sears Realty, Duane Park Patisserie, Ordinary Mind Zendo, Kiss + Cathcart; Architects.

BROADWAY INTERACTIVE GROUP

Freelance Producer/Designer
Banner Advertisements, re-design and optimization.
HTML and page layout for re-design of The BIG Website. 1997

ABC ONLINE

Staff Trainer in HTML.1997

WINTON duPONT FILMS

Consultant on Digital Technology, Intra/Inter-networking, training in Graphic, Multimedia and Internet software. Art Director and Webmaster. 1995-1997.

TIMES-MIRROR / GolfOnline

Animation, scanning, retouching and color correction of illustrations and HTML page layout for Private Lessons area of GolfOnline 1995-1996.

SIMON & SCHUSTER INTERACTIVE

Managed Beta testing for I.M. Meen, a children's edutainment CD-ROM. Coordinated design and editing of the user's manual. Also organized visual and textual data for a World Wide Web prototype. 1994-1995.

THE QUEENS OF NEW YORK CITY

Designer, illustrator, programmer and animator for this CD-ROM about three children growing up in New York City. Co-written with Ann Derry, the project, is prototyped in Hypercard and contains drawings, maps, photographs, sound effects, and recipes. The animations were done in Macromedia Director and Adobe Premiere. 1994-1995

CYBERLINGO

Author & Designer of an interactive glossary of computer jargon.

StoryBoardHC

Designer of a HyperCard© based storyboard template for prototyping interactive projects. Version 1.0 available now as downloadable shareware.

TOM OTTERNESS SCULPTURE STUDIO

Studio manager and project coordinator. Supervisor on all phases of production of large-scale bronze sculpture projects, including The Real World, the sculpture garden in the Hudson River Park in Lower Manhattan. Managed budget and schedule, coordinated personnel. Liaison to gallery and clients. 1985-1991

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY - Middletown, CT

Assistant Professor: Design & Video Workshop. 1975-1979

WESLEYAN CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES

Faculty Fellow: Research Seminar in Sensory Perception. 1977

PBS - Hartford, CT

Supervisor of Accredited Student Video Projects. 1976-1978

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY GALLERY

Director of University Art Gallery. Organized four major exhibitions and supervised the budget. 1977

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY - St. Louis, MO

Assistant Professor: Originated a course in Computer Assisted Design. Taught Film, Video, Multimedia, Design and Painting. 1969-1975

KETC-TV - St. Louis, MO

Video Consultant on Open Broadcasting. 1971

KMOX-TV - St. Louis, MO

Director: Student/Faculty Video Projects. 1971

EDUCATION

1967-1969 Independent Study - Rome, Italy

1967 MFA - Pratt Institute / Painting & Photography - Brooklyn, NY

1965 BFA - Minneapolis College of Art & Design / Painting - Minneapolis, MN

ART EXHIBITIONS

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