Jeffrey Haste skills in the graphic arts, book design, professional experience, education and degrees.

For twenty-five years my work on books includes composition or design, design using the computer, making handmade books, and doing fine book binding. My experience includes printing with mechanical presses as well as printing by hand on the iron handpress and Vandercook presses. My undergraduate work was primarily in visual art including experience and understanding of intaglio printing and photography.

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Jeffrey Haste  Book Design   207.829.5038

SKILLS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS

25 yr. book design, production management, book production

design of print media

web site design

17 yr. design experience using Quark Xpress

Photoshop, Corel Draw & Photo-Paint, Fontographer, Dreamweaver

typography, fine printing, & bookbinding limited editions

photography, printmaking, & illustration

 

PERSONAL PROFILE

approaches all work from design standpoint

received design & publishing awards, art awards

applies background in typography to desktop publishing

professional with strong eye for perfection of printed materials

interdisciplinary imagination

strives for design integrity & high standards of quality

EDUCATION

MFA Book Arts Institute, Graduate School of Library Science, University AL, 1984

intensive workshops with book designers, fine printers, book art professionals

studies in book design, book binding, history of printing & publishing

intensive book art seminars, GSLS, UOA, 1981

BFA Rhode Island School of Design, 1974

studies in 2 & 3 dimensional design, painting & printmaking

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Freelance design, publishing, and antiquarian book work out of private studio 1997-2008

Muse Press, studio, Portland, ME 1985-1995;

limited edition books, publishing, book restoration, specialty printing

design & construction of presentations

clients: libraries, museums, collectors, designers, publishers, galleries, ad agencies, and photographers

Anthoensen Press, Portland ME 1985-1988: typographer, plate maker, and pressman

Assistant to Richard Gabriel Rummonds, Director, Book Arts Institute, GSLS, University AL

curator, typographer, pressman, bookbinder, teacher & teacher aid 1982-84

Book Art studio, Portland, ME 1979-1982

exhibitions & demonstrations in Maine

Art Instructor, Salmon Falls School, Hollis ME, 1977-78

Freelance painting and illustrating, Providence, RI 1975-77