NEW SITE COMING SOON!
I felt like it was time for an updated, richer look. So check back soon.
In other news...I have recently purchased a Nikon D3000 SLR camera and will be starting to get back into my photography, which I'm very excited about. Now that I will be revisiting a old hobby I lost sight of, my blog will most likely be changing to focus more on photography (I know, what your saying "not another photo blog") and possibly some other creative work, I promise to make it interesting.
Check out some of my design work from a couple of contests entered in May and June.
ABOUT
Christine (Jaworski) Ballestrini is a graphic designer in Middletown/Essex, Connecticut. After graduating from the University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts with a degree in Communication Design, she interned and freelanced at Decker Advertising in Glastonbury, Connecticut before taking a full-time graphic design position with MNA Creative in Danbury, Connecticut. Shortly after joining MNA Creative, Christine was relocated to a satellite offce in Delray Beach, Florida to work as part of an in-house team for their client, Office Depot. Here, she focused on brand identity and packaging for the Office Depot Private Brand. While working at MNA Creative and Office Depot, she was the lead designer and brand expert for the Foray brand, creating packaging, icons and branding for the Foray name. After MNA Creative, Christine relocated herself to Boulder, Colorado and worked for Pride Marketing and Procurement in Denver where she managed her own Pride members and designed catalogs for their restaurant supply stores; before moving back to her home state of Connecticut and taking a position as a graphic designer at Outthink in Essex, Connecticut. As an Outthinker, Christine has grown not only as a print designer but has also continued to push herself in multimedia design. Continuing to expand her knowledge in programs such as Dreamweaver and Flash, and learning HTML and CSS along with basic Action Script programming. She sees the potential and basic need to keep in touch with this growing media as our culture moves faster and faster into the multimedia/social networking society.
Education
2003 // University of Connecticut, School of Fine Arts • Communication Design
Work History
2003 - Present freelance designer, self
2004 - 2005 junior designer, MNA Creative
2005 - 2006 senior designer, Pride Marketing & Procurement
2006 - Present designer, Outthink
Misc.
Programs Adobe CS4 InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Bridge
Languages
HTML, CSS, basic Action Script, basic JavaScript
Interests
Entering as many design contests as she can, finding inspiration from all types of media, typography, and continuing to educate herself in all aspects of her career
