April Anderton

Freelance Designer|Stock Photographer|Social Media Pro

email: aprilanderton@gmail.com
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-Forward thinker. Actively seek emerging markets, new trends and upcoming niches. Develop creative ways to fill needs and provide for trend driven consumers.

-Social media pro, including emerging sites like google +, spotify and pinterest.

-Seek out and adopt new technology and devices such as the Android platform, eReaders, media devices, software, applications, websites, blogs and social media outlets.

-In-depth knowledge of the scrapbooking industry with many contacts and associations in the business.

-Maintain active social media relationships with scrapbookers, crafters, editors and creative directors and continue to take on assignments from major industry magazines and media outlets.

-Pioneer of Digital Scrapbooking. Filled a need for a small niche market, now widely practiced. Worked to increase knowledge and awareness of using the computer as a tool in scrapbooking, now an integral part of most scrapbook pages created.

-Successfully sold advertising for a fledgling magazine to major corporations such as Hewlett Packard, Epson and PC Crafter.

-Worked with Hewlett Packard, Provo Craft/PClayers, Epson America, Inc. and other leaders in the industry to provide design content to consumers.

-Quoted in the New York Times and scrapbooking trade magazines as an expert in the field.

-Appeared on multi-segment television show as a digital scrapbooking professional.

-Numerous projects featured on television segments and in print including the cover of Memory Makers and Digital Scrapbooking Magazines.

 -Proficient with computer software and programs such as Adobe Creative Suite cs5 – Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator etc.  Web languages and programs  such as html,PHP, ftp, wordpress, cpanel etc.

 

  

 

2004-Present – AprilAnderton.com – Stock Photographer and Designer

2008-2010 – Product Designer – PCLayers.com (Provo Craft)

2007-2009 Creative Editor – CKMedia

2006-2007 Consultant and Contributing Editor – CKMedia

2006 – Founder – DigitalScrapbooking.com and Digital Scrapbooking Magazine

 

 

1993 – BYU-ID
Interior Design – FIDER (CIDA) Accredited, ASID affiliated