Nicholas Burkhalter

Creative Director / Graphic Designer / Printmaker
and other things!!



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A resourceful, ambitious creative director possessing the tools to manage and collaborate with creative professionals to achieve successful design solutions spanning digital and analog formats.

A demonstrable record of team-driven and solo experience researching concepts, implementing tools concrete and abstract, and realization of agreed upon plans culminating in successfully resonant design.

  • Innovative, resourceful, ‘lateral thinking.’

  • Creative team + project management experience

  • Adept at independent and collaborative projects.

  • Experienced in print methods, poster and book design, and communication with external production services

  • Adobe Creative Suite 
    (Photoshop, In-Design, Illustrator, After Effects)

  • HTML + CSS + Wordpress

  • Digital fabrication, modeling, packaging

  • Letterpress + Risograph printing


Experience


New York Academy of Art
Creative Director     April 2017 – Present 
Graphic Designer    November 2015 – 2017

The New York Academy of Art is a graduate school combining intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. Responsibilities include:
  • Leading the design, branding, and production of multiple departments’ print and digital collateral publicizin and accentuating Academy events, lectures, exhibitions, instructional material for current/prospective students, and development material highlighting the Academy’s growth.
  • Responsible for the management of several teams handling social media, recruitment, and digital advertising.
  • Webmaster for the institution’s website, managing active users and ensuring that the website is up to date on security 
    and maintaining PHP compatibility.
  • Directing the branding of email marketing templates within Salesforce Pardot to meet the needs of various
    departments in their efforts to publicize upcoming events and expand outreach to potential students and supporters.


Freelance + pro bono
March 2014 – Present
Designing for independent clients and collectives in North Carolina and New York City.


Pointed Press Studio & Shift-lab
Research, Studio Assistant, Designer     March 2014 – September 2015

Assisted on distinct projects including freelance client work, book design, conceptual research, international collaboration, testing and experimenting with hybrid digital/physical fabrication, preparing work for exhibitions, and documentation.
Responsibilities included:

  • Preparing files for layout and all aspects of the design and printing process
  • Collaborating with artists of Shift-Lab to design and produce a catalogue of their work
  • Assisting with the collection of work by international artists and designers, including all phases of exhibition research, collation, outreach, and execution.
  • Instructor in the Technographic workshop hosted at the national typographic conference TypeCon in Washington, DC.
  • Instructor for a hybrid digital fabrication/letterpress course at the Penland School of Craft in Spruce Pine, NC.