# Jennifer Parker > Art Director | Designer | Production | Print and Digital Marketing | Photo Director | Prop Stylist Location: Mill Valley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jenniferparker • Results-driven, innovative, and motivated Art Director, Designer and Production Artist with extensive experience in print and digital formats across multiple industries. • Contributes to projects centered on food + beverage, packaging, healthcare, gift and home decor product design, catalog management, and marketing collateral. Offers exceptional skill in catalog layout design, photo editing, and managing studio and lifestyle photo shoots. Specialties: Packaging, Marketing Collateral, Websites, Digital Asset and Project Management, Social Media, Catalog Designer, Photo Shoots, Product and Prop Stylist, Photo Retouching, Illustration ## Work Experience ### Creative Manager @ Torn Ranch Jan 2025 – Present | Petaluma, California, United States ### Creative Director and Designer @ Jennifer Parker Designs Jan 2009 – Present | Mill Valley, Ca *Closely collaborates with clients to ensure timely delivery of all our projects while respecting concept and branding guidelines. Maintains quality control through all aspects of the design, production process, press-ready mechanicals, and color proofs. ### Art Director - Minister of Creative Visualization @ The Republic of Tea Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Larkspur, California, United States *Spearheaded and elevated the brand's visual storytelling for print, web, and video to create engaging marketing campaigns. Responsible for the concept, storyboards, and final execution of all content across multi-channels. * Supervised a team of photographers, photo assistants, and models. Strategized and streamlined pre-shoot and on-set workflow to be most efficient, with two cameras operating simultaneously. Photo styled all sets. Ensured quality control for image assets such as color accuracy, lighting, and photo retouching. *Art directed, designed and executed production-ready retail catalogs, brochures, sell sheets, postcards, trade show signage, website banners & photos, emails, and paid social ads. * Expertise in photo composition, made digital label mocks for web, physical mocks for sales teams, organized digital assets on servers and in Canto. *Designed four seasonal retail catalogs that not only showcased our products but also led to a remarkable 20% growth in 2023, demonstrating the power of effective design in driving business success. ### Senior Product Designer @ rockflowerpaper Jan 2013 – Jan 2022 | San Anselmo • Fulfilled a critical role directing product design and production responsibilities for this small, woman-owned company dedicated to creating sophisticated, affordable products for a wholesale and direct-to-consumer business model. • Instrumental in driving design for print and digital marketing collateral, including trade show brochures, signage, postcards, booth design, merchandizing displays, as well as digital assets, website banners, social media advertisements, and email marketing pieces. • Art directed lifestyle and studio photoshoots. Responsible for the budget, props, timelines, location scouting, hiring models, and product styling. • Responsible for email blasts and designing social media content (social posts, gifs, and reels) for Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook. Wrote marketing copy and analyzed social media performance metrics. • Consistently delivered results in the product design either by hand, digital illustrations or Photoshop compositions for hard and soft consumer goods. • Prepared production-ready files per vendor specs, liaison with vendors, troubleshooting, and found ways to cut printer costs. • Managed a digital asset library, created a naming convention, and archive system for photography, website, social media, design and production files. ### Art Director - Studio Manager - Designer @ Punch Studio Jan 2001 – Jan 2008 | Point Richmond, CA • Managed the operations of the Northern California satellite design studio • Art directed a team of in-house designers, freelance designers, and production artists. • Credited with producing large volumes of custom designs to meet the needs of Big Box retail chain stores, achieving milestones and deliverables on-time. • Art directed designers in the creation of original product designs; defined and influenced design direction, image themes, and color palettes. • Led the end-to-end creative process, including design and production approvals, proofing, shipping, archiving, and the review of pre-production samples. • Captured gains in efficiency and productivity by establishing design, production and organizational system ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Design and Visual Communications, General California State University, Chico ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jennylparker - Website: http://www.jennyparkerdesigns.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/jenniferparker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jenniferparker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05