leslie r carey

• Portfolio

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  • photography & travel book {2011}

    
    

    

    
    

    
    

    catalog covers {2011}

    
    

    

    

    
    

    brand & web redesign {2011}
    
    

    

    
    

    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    announcement {2011}
    
    

    

    
    

    
    brochure {2010}

    
    

    

    
    

    photography {2009}
    
    

    

    
    
• Love

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    Serious Brit love: Su Blackwell & Stephen Wildish

    
    

    Check out some great work at the 33.3 Art Show, including my buddy Ty.

    
    Miraculous feats in bureaucratic web restructuring results in this.
    
    Keep your eye out for this one: ni.Be design
    
    Madison City Guide update is posted on design*sponge - hello blogland, I have arrived.
    
• Info

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  Profile
  • 

    Leslie Carey

    Creative Project Coordinator & Wordsmith

    Education Management | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, US

    Experience

    • Mar 2011 - Present
      Independent / Wordsmithery & Creative Consultation
      Balancing effective language with meaningful design. Freelance consultation services, including editing, writing, design, and general creative insight for individuals and small businesses.
    • Sept 2010 - Present
      Community Education Project Coordinator / Saint Paul Public Schools
      Branding, website management, traditional and digital marketing, graphic design and promotional materials, reporting, presentations, internal & external liaison, administrative support.
    • Dec 2008 - Aug 2010
      Administrative Assistant / UW Health
      Established responsibilities of a brand new position to include calendaring for five executive level physicians, travel arrangements, event planning, physician recruitment, copy writing/editing, data reporting and analysis, committee administration (including agenda and minute-taking) and other ad hoc duties. Served as liaison to all levels of internal staff and external business partners.
    • 2008 - 2010
      Freelance Graphic Design / UW Colleges
      Continuing Medical Education conference brochure
    • Sept 2007 - Dec 2008
      Patient Business Services / UW Health
      Delivered quality front-of-the-line customer service, including patient clinic scheduling, registration data entry, payment collection and insurance verification. Maintained successful record of retrieving dissatisfied customers and diffusing difficult customers. Instrumental in achieving improved Press Ganey ratings for Neurology clinic.
    • Oct 2007 - Mar 2008
      Production Artist / Extra Bold Portfolio School
      Production artist intern on varied ad campaigns for local businesses.
    • Feb 2006 - Aug 2007
      Imaging Assistant / University of Wisconsin - Madison Office of the Registrar
      Processing student records with ImageNow software and filing - Document Scanning, Digital Image Processing, Quality Assurance and Document Indexing (linking)

    Education

    • 2003 - 2007
      University of Wisconsin-Madison
      Bachelor of Arts in English
    • 2003 - 2007
      University of Wisconsin-Madison
      Bachelor of Science in Art
    • 1999 - 2003
      Green Bay West High School

    Additional Information

    • Websites:
      Company Website, Personal Website
• Posts

  Posts

  Profile
  • Hiatus

    May 11, 10

    Taking a temporary hiatus while life works itself out.  Be back soon.
  • Colette Paperie

    May 03, 10

    This little lady has a lot of paper designs under her belt - and what a variety!
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    I love the sticky notes and they are FREE with any purchase during a special promotion - awesome!
    
    
    

    
    

    etsy | blog | facebook
  • Storeyshop

    May 03, 10

    More hand-cut paper goodness...
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    ...and custom orders too!
    
    
    

    
    

    Storeyshop | blog
    
    
  • 3 Dots

    Apr 27, 10

    Super fun jewelry find:
    
    
    

    {my fav}

    
    

    
    

    
    

    etsy
  • Letterpress Giveaway, Day One

    Apr 26, 10

    
    

    
    

    Check out a great selection of prizes with up to 7 chances to win over at Oh, Hello Friend from these great shops: monki vintage, eight hour day, snap and tumble, and 1 canoe 2
  • Christopher Paul Studios

    Apr 26, 10

    I love up-cycling, don't you?  Christopher Paul re-purposes furniture, dinner plates and creates some great, funky wall art too:
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    etsy | via
  • Justin Perricone

    Apr 26, 10

    A hilarious and aesthetically pleasing summary of the ingredients in a Ham & Cheese Hot Pocket...
    
    
    

    
    

    ...and a reminder why they are gross and not real food.  More from Justin at Perricone Design.

    
    

    More foodie-ness here.
  • {Freebie}: Art House Dreams Project

    Apr 23, 10

    
    
    The boys at Art House Co-op are hosting a free project of 4x6 artworks (no frames, please) to be added to the Brooklyn Art Library permanent collection, as part of a gigantic cataloging process.  Neat!
    
    
    About the Permanent Collection: "The Brooklyn Art Library is set up to be a place where you can send lovers of your work, fans of yours, or just family and friends to come "check out" your work. In the coming months we will start categorizing every piece of artwork we have from you. When someone comes in and asks for work by you, we will be able to pull everything we have by you and show them. This free project is a great way to add to it!"
    
    
    What do you dream about?
    
    
  • Letterpress Week April 26-30

    Apr 23, 10

    
    
    

    ( oh, hello friend. ) you are loved.: letterpress week, next week:

    
    
    Tune into Oh, hello, friend all next week for $600 worth of prizes from shops like smock paper, alyson from postal press, sarah from parrott design studio, sugar plum invitations, studio on fire, tanya from snap and tumble, roll and tumble press, and more!
    
    
    Looking forward to it!
  • Blanca Gomez

    Apr 20, 10

    Loving this lady:
    

    {I must have this one for my music room 

    concept - more on that later}

    
    

    
    

    
    

    Blanca Gomez | etsy | poster cabaret
  • Ty Wilkins

    Apr 16, 10

    A shout out to my Scottish heritage via Ty Wilkins, illustrator and logo-designer extraordinaire:
    
    
    

    {Edinburgh Panorama}

    
    
    I especially love the little Scottie Dog, a lifetime favorite of my Gramma's.  Check out more on his site.
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    web | etsy | via
  • Cameron Moll

    Apr 15, 10

    Amazing feats of letterpress-ing:
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    big cartel | via
  • {One to Watch}: Matt Martin

    Apr 13, 10

    This guy does some amazing things with acrylic paint - like turn it into some crazy/awesome sculptures:
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    explore the depths of process art: acrylicsuperhero.com
  • Lockette Paper + Fabric

    Apr 13, 10

    Customized fabric stationary and notecards from good ol' Vancouver {I'll be seeing you soon!}
    
    
    

    winter berries

    
    

    strawberry

    
    

    aqua and red
    
    

    etsy
  • Gramkin Paper Studio

    Apr 12, 10

    Paper goods and smart-aleck cards with messages reminiscent of Somee, including some doozies for Mom's Day {May 9}
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    

    etsy
  • Laura Bucci

    Apr 12, 10

    Eco & Cosy: two lovely words that should definitely go together:
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    She makes pins, pouches and tea cozies too - what a gal.
  • She & Him Shop Now Open!

    Apr 08, 10

    ...with a few select goodies by Social Imprints:
    
    
    

    
    

    {gotta have it}

    
    

    
    

    SHOP
  • Allora Handmade

    Apr 08, 10

    I'm usually not into girly-ness (flowers, butterflies, pink, etc.), but these headbands are pretty swell and I love the shop name {'allora' is a common Italian conjoiner, kind of like English 'so...' or 'well, then...'}
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    etsy
  • To-do 2010: Check-in

    Apr 07, 10

    Hm, haven't really made a whole lot of progress, but it's a start.  This upcoming will be my last totally free weekend before spring madness begins, so it is very much ON.
    
    

    The List

    1. Start an art/design blog ✓

    2. Start a foodie blog ✓

    3. Build portfolio website for said blogs

    4. Have a garage sale - scheduled for June 19!

    5. Learn how to use recently acquired vintage cameras

    6. Take a Pacific Northwest vacation - tentatively scheduled for September

    7. Pay off credit cards by xmas (6 down, 2 to go) - {2 store cards officially closed!}

    8. Clean & organize my office/studio (more on that later) - in progress

    9. Revitalize etsy shop and establish an inventory flow

    10. Increase reader/viewership for #'s 1,2 & 9 (any tips on this would be greatly appreciated; I'm always learning)

    
    

    
    

    {modernemotive}
  • Brainstorm

    Apr 07, 10

    It has been quite stormy here for several days now, but here's a ray of sunshine via my inbox:  highly affordable Brainstorm prints from $20-45
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    web | shop | interview
  • Anomaly

    Apr 05, 10

    Anomaly Design: The name is quite fitting, considering there are no store or seller details of any kind yet, but stocks a fun little stash of metal trinkets with great designs.  I would love to see some of these expanded onto other wares, especially:
    
    
    

    Octopus of Awesome

    
    

    Crown

    
    

    Ship

    
    
  • Old New Again

    Apr 05, 10

    Very cool "fresh vintage" refurb shop that just happens to be in my hometown:
    
    
    

    Wood Wall Vase

    
    

    Restaurant Sign

    
    

    Kitchen Table Organizer

    
    

    etsy 1 | etsy 2 | blog
  • Spread the Love

    Apr 03, 10

    Indeed:

    
    

    
    

    etsy | blog | via 
  • Dark Shadows

    Apr 02, 10

    I always thought I was the only one on this earth who watched Dark Shadows re-runs on the SciFi channel as a tween, but apparently even this obscure late 60s blood-sucker soap won't escape the modern remake mill, and of course fits right in with the current trend.  [Read/listen to an interesting theory on vampires in pop culture history from NPR]  Rumor has it the dynamic duo of Burton/Depp will be holing up in the Collinwood estate to produce a new Dark Shadows for 2011 and begin shooting this fall.
    
    
    

    {slashfilm}

    
    
    Though Alice in Wonderland left me feeling decidedly 'meh', I am strangely looking forward to this.  Perhaps it gives some sort of justification to those hours of watching bad acting, holey plots and wretched 70s hairdos and costumes.  If nothing else, it will be a good laugh.
  • New Spring Designs from Two Trick Pony

    Apr 02, 10

    New Englanders Laurie and Carrie of Two Trick Pony have some fresh, eco-friendly designs for your Spring card-giving needs:
    
    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    website | etsy | bigcartel