I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and took to art at an early age with an affinity for drawing, lettering, and as a teenager, for photography, filmmaking and animation. 1982-1988 Commercial sign painter/production artist, The Art Sign Company, Oakland, CA 1998-1991 Attended California College of the Arts, Oakland/San Francisco, CA (formerly Califonia College of Arts and Crafts, founded 1907) Graduated in 1991 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design. While attending CCA also studied photography under Larry Sultan and Chris Johnson. 1991-1992 Member of the Typographic Staff, Adobe Systems, Inc. Worked on digital typefaces including Monotype and Berthold type conversions produced under license with the original type foundries. Subsequently worked as graphic designer for Adobe's in-house marketing communications group. 1992-1994 Mark Eastman Design & Photography Freelance 1994-2002 Associate Designer, Communication Arts magazine, Menlo Park, CA While working at CA, was actively involved in design, layout and picture editing of the publication. Redesigned Communication Arts magazine and identity in the Spring of 1995. Designed and produced CA's advertising, direct mail and other CA printed promotional materials. As a contributing writer, wrote articles on typography, conferences and book reviews published in Communication Arts magazine and on their web site. 2002-2007 Mark Eastman Design & Photography Freelance 2007-Aug. 2011 Graphic Designer, Google Creative Lab group, San Francisco/Mountain View, CA (vendor, employee of Harding Marketing Communications) Worked on print and web projects including business-to-business marketing and identity materials (for the Google, YouTube and DoubleClick brands), print collateral, data sheets, case studies, print ads, web banner ads, HTML email announcements, icons, illustrations, chart graphics and logotypes. In addition, worked on Google internal communications and assisted with brand standards documentation on typography and corporate fonts for Google print-based marketing materials. Currently I work on a freelance basis for a variety of clients. Away from work enjoy, art, film, jazz, the outdoors, travel and am a dedicated cyclist.