Heather Sears_
Creative Director with 20+ years of experience in advertising, branding, marketing, and events.
HEATHER SEARS is an award winning creative director with more than 20 years of management and design experience in advertising, branding, marketing, and events—across all media channels and categories. She translates business and client goals into compelling design solutions that drive brand awareness and revenue through digital, video, experiential, and traditional media platforms.
Creative Director with
20+ years of experience
in advertising, branding, marketing, and events.
HEATHER SEARS is an award winning creative director with more than 20 years of management and design experience in advertising, branding, marketing, and events—across all media channels and categories. She translates business and client goals into compelling design solutions that drive brand awareness and revenue through digital, video, experiential, and traditional media platforms.
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Qualifications_
Capabilities
advertising, native, editorial, branding, logo development, sales + marketing collateral, presentations, rich media, websites, hubs, social, apps, eblasts, publishing, annual reports, brochures, events, trade shows, signage, package design, photo/video shoots, motion graphics, TV shows, illustration, image acquisition, retouching, print production, and many more.
Services
creative direction, strategy, innovation, design principles, concept development, integrated marketing, creative services management, team building, client relationships, interdepartmental collaboration, vendor relations, priority discernment, project management.
Software
InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML/CSS, WordPress, Drupal, Sketch, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Keynote, Jira, Trello, FileMaker, and many other supplementary programs and platforms.
Professional Memberships
AIGA_ American Institute of Graphic Arts
NAFE_ National Association for Female Executives
NYWIC_ New York Women In Communications
WIT_ Women in Tech
Awards_
MIN_
Integrated Marketing Awards
Women’s Half Marathon Event; Reinvention Convention Series & TV Special;
SPD AWARDS_
Publication Design
Magazine Redesign, Brill’s Content Magazine, January/February Issue; Cover Design, Brill’s Content Magazine, February Issue;
AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS_
Excellence in Communication
and Graphic Design
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation Annual Report; Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company Annual Reports; Firefly Design + Communications Inc., Self Promotion; OppenheimerFunds Brochure;
AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGN AWARDS_
In-House Department Excellence
MORE Magazine 10th Anniversary Cover Wrap; Stepped Mailer Series; Issue Preview Accordion Brochure; Model Search Invite; Reinvention Convention Website; Reinvention Convention Event Gift Bag; Branded Gift Bag; ‘Pretty Smart’ Beauty Brochure; Beauty Look Book; Opinionistas Logo; Uncorked Wine Club Website; Uncorked Wine Club Advertising;
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION_
NY/IABC Ace Awards
Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation Annual Report;
MEREDITH CORPORATION_
Marketing Excellence Awards
STRIVE editorial and native content digital platform; More Magazine, Reinvention Convention Event Series;
AGC Awards and Exhibition_
outstanding example
of graphic excellence
Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) Annual Report;
SCHEUFELEN AWARDS_
Design Excellence
Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) Annual Report;
PRATT INSTITUTE_
Scholar Awards
Pratt Award of Excellence, Outstanding Merit in Graphic Design; Pratt Circle Award, Outstanding Academic Achievement; President’s List; Several Communication Design Department Excellence Awards; Pratt Leadership Award, Outstanding Contributions to the Pratt Community;