GAETANO APREA
460 W. Canfield
DETROIT, MI
718-406-6886
gaprea@gaetanoaprea.com

EDUCATION

Parsons School of Design New York, NY 08/06-01/08 Graphic and Commercial Art
Macomb Community College Macomb, Mi 08/99-08/01 Graphic and Commercial Art 

Oakland University Detroit, Mi 08/94-06/99 Bachelor of Arts

EXPERIENCE

The Athena Group
Graphic Designer
New York, NY 12/06 – 06/08

The Athena Group is a private real estate investment, operating and development company. Athena has approximately 4500 residential units in its development and construction portfolio. These development projects are located in New York, NY, Jersey City, NJ, Providence, RI, Arlington, VA, Reston, VA, Raleigh, NC, Deer Valley, UT, North Las Vegas, NV and Los Angeles, CA.

Design and implement all graphic needs for Athena and all of its developments, including:
• Flash banners

• Interior building signage
• Exterior building signage
• Brochures for all properties

• Corporate collateral
• Html mass mailers

• Web design

Bernard Hodes Group
Graphic Designer
Detroit, Mi/New York, NY
07/04 - 11/05

Bernard-Hodes is the largest network of full service agencies dedicated to recruitment advertising and communications. Working with the Associate Creative Director my duties included design and layout of newspaper ads, animated .gifs, brochures, direct mail and large scale banners. My design skills include color selection, composition, font and photo selection.

My layout skills include style sheet setup, photo placement, creating comps, text/page flow and mechanicals. Bernard-Hodes clients include:

• Ford Motor Co.

• Cracker Barrel Restaurants
• Spectrum Health

• Owens Corning
• St. John Health Systems
• Elkhart General Hospital

J. Walter Thompson
Junior Graphic Designer
Detroit, Michigan
06/00 - 01/04 At JWT

As a Jr. designer my duties included design of newspaper ads, dealer hang tags, point of purchase, dealer take away pieces and banner ads for Ford Motor Co.

Campaigns include:
• Toby Keith “Built Ford Tough”

• Ford Focus national take away piece

APPLICATIONS

Illustrator
Photoshop
Quark
InDesign
Flash-ActionScript 3
Dreamweaver-CSS