My graphics career began at Clemson University where I received a Bachelors of Science degree in graphic communications. Over the course of my career, I've had the pleasure of working for companies as large as Macy, Inc. to small local printers. I enjoy helping my customers discover who they are or what they want to become through design and developing a brand that is right for them.

I possess unique analytical, organizational and customer service skills and have a reputation for creative thinking, flexibility, adaptability, hands-on problem solving and positive attitude.

Recently, I took a Myers Briggs personality test and my personal motto turned out to be “Life's Problem Solver.” I was finally able to put into words what I've always felt was my purpose in life. I would love the opportunity to partner with you to solve your design problems and serve as your personal Graphic Design Specialist.

Most of my samples were designed in InDesign CS4 but I'm also proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark Express on Mac & PC platforms. I am also able to work in Microsoft Office programs. Please take a few moments to review my work and feel free to contact me anytime to discuss future projects.

Thank you and enjoy,Deborah L CarsonB I O G R a P h y

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My graphics career began at Clemson University where I received a Bachelors of Science degree in graphic communications. Over the course of my career, I've had the pleasure of working for companies as large as Macy, Inc. to small local printers. I enjoy helping my customers discover who they are or what they want to become through design and developing a brand that is right for them.

I possess unique analytical, organizational and customer service skills and have a reputation for creative thinking, flexibility, adaptability, hands-on problem solving and positive attitude.

Recently, I took a Myers Briggs personality test and my personal motto turned out to be “Life's Problem Solver.” I was finally able to put into words what I've always felt was my purpose in life. I would love the opportunity to partner with you to solve your design problems and serve as your personal Graphic Design Specialist.

Most of my samples were designed in InDesign CS4 but I'm also proficient in Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark Express on Mac & PC platforms. I am also able to work in Microsoft Office programs. Please take a few moments to review my work and feel free to contact me anytime to discuss future projects.

Thank you and enjoy,Deborah L CarsonB I O G R a P h y

3Deborah L. Carson dcarson03@gmail.com • 404.610.3197

B r a n d I d e n t I t y

Personal logo for professional football player

Business logo for new music production company

header for Wedding Magazine

Logo concept for future expo

Logo concept for hair expo

Personal logo for client’s wedding

Brand Identity, in my opinion, is a marrying of souls in a graphic sense. The customer’s desire and vision are combined with my skill and experience to form a lasting bond that is presented to the world. It is not only my clients’ identity but also mine.

Deborah L. Carson dcarson03@gmail.com • 404.610.31974

When I worked at Macy’s Inc., I had the honor of working with the world’s most talented fashion designers. The work environment encouraged creativity and individuality. as a result, I became one of the designers used for in-house display designs.

This final piece was a collaborative effort with an up and coming sports marketing firm, Dime Defense.

L a r g e Fo r m a t P r I n t

Deborah L. Carson dcarson03@gmail.com • 404.610.3197Deborah L. Carson dcarson03@gmail.com • 404.610.31975New charter school in Ga needs consisted of letterhead, envelopes, postcards and ads for newspapers and magazines.

Clients fragrances company needed flyers, business cards and car magnets.

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Direct mail f lyer

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Visit our website for a complete list of our products.

Deborah L. Carson dcarson03@gmail.com • 404.610.31976

advertisements come in many forms: word of mouth, flyers, spaces in newspapers, etc. The below samples were placed in a local magazine to advertise the enrollment for a new school.

flyer for in-store advertisement

ad for wedding magazine

Postcard flyers for make-up artist

Vendor flyer

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7Deborah L. Carson dcarson03@gmail.com • 404.610.3197

This was a very fun project. My client was getting married in Jamaica and she wanted her wedding invitation to look like a passport.

She also liked the pattern paisley. It was very challenging trying to find the right pattern and fitting said pattern with the right color scheme throughout the wedding package.

Needless to say, everyone (including the bride) loved the results. My client was very good at letting me know exactly what she wanted and I enjoyed working with her to make her wedding day visually pleasing.

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Invitation Cover

Plate Menu

SoupManish water

Salad

EntreesBroiled honey glazed chicken with rice and peas Jerk pork with crushed sweet potato with pineapple

Curried goat with white rice Escovitched fish with fried plantain

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Grandparents of the Bride Myrna Francis-Melbourne Vinton Melbourne Marva Prendergast Norman PrendergastGrandparents of the Groom

Mr. and Mrs. R.J. BushIn Loving Memory of our Grandparents

Roy Francis B.J. TurnerMaid of Honor Noelia WilliamsBridesmaids Jade Robinson Seyi Falade Charisse Moore Alicia Gaynor

Groomsmen Glendon Dilworth Alexander Blaise Rickey Robinson Rio RobinsonFlowergirls Zyelle Bush Sydney Dilworth Tia HughesRingbearer Zaiden BushEscorts Dr. Sydney Gaynor, II Patrin DilworthSolo Performance Golda Watson

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In Loving Memory of our Grandparents

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Maid of Honor

Noelia Williams

Bridesmaids

Jade Robinson

Seyi Falade

Charisse Moore

Alicia Gaynor

Groomsmen

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Alexander Blaise

Rickey Robinson

Rio Robinson

Flowergirls

Zyelle Bush

Sydney Dilworth

Tia Hughes

Ringbearer

Zaiden Bush

Escorts

Dr. Sydney Gaynor, II

Patrin Dilworth

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David Prendergast

Parents of the Groom

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Grandparents of the Groom

Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Bush

In Loving Memory of our Grandparents

Roy Francis

B.J. Turner

Maid of Honor

Noelia Williams

Bridesmaids

Jade Robinson

Seyi Falade

Charisse Moore

Alicia Gaynor

Groomsmen

Glendon Dilworth

Alexander Blaise

Rickey Robinson

Rio Robinson

Flowergirls

Zyelle Bush

Sydney Dilworth

Tia Hughes

Ringbearer

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Escorts

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Patrin Dilworth

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How your gifts are helping the cats of New York City and beyond

Neighborhood MewsSpring 2010

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) involves neutering feral cats, returning them to their territory, and providing for their long-term care. It is the most effective way to reduce the cats’ numbers and ensure their well-being.

Neighborhood Cats Celebrates 10th Anniversary!Reflections by Bryan Kortis, Executive Director

Feral Firsts! Ten Years of Accomplishments Introduce Trap-Neuter-Return on a large scale to New York City

Start a program for training communities across the U.S. to perform TNR

Author a guide on running a community-wide TNR program

Author and publish a complete handbook on Trap-Neuter-Return

Write an online course for managing feral cat colonies

Produce an instructional video on how to perform “mass trapping” – the TNR of entire colonies at once

Create an online feral cat colony database

Enter a contract with a municipality to spay/neuter its local feral cat population

Instruct a national series of workshops on feral cat management

Raising the Status of Feral CatsIn 2003, many of the leading animal welfare organizations

in the U.S. met and drafted what has come to be known as the Asilomar Accords. The goal was to create a uniform system of data collection for all animal shelters in the belief this would greatly aid in reducing companion animal overpopulation. Unfortunately, the final draft of the Accords excluded any mention of TNR and left feral cats classified as unhealthy, untreatable animals who basically should be euthanized.

Last summer, Maddie’s Fund and the working committee that continues to refine and maintain the Asilomar Accords, invited a number of feral cat experts, including Bryan Kortis of Neighborhood Cats, to speak to them about making changes. Bryan traveled to Las Vegas for the meeting and urged the committee to embrace TNR and recognize the return of ferals to managed colonies as both humane and good policy, and should be encouraged. Our hope remains that in the near future, favorable changes to the Accords will be made.

This remarkable journey has been made possible by all the

donors who’ve supported us, whether with a large or small

amount, whether giving only one time or every month.

“”

On July 11, 2010, Neighborhood Cats will be ten years old. It all started a decade ago, when I was walking up the block from my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In an empty lot behind an iron fence, I spotted a kitten playing with a leaf in the grass. In the past, I had helped save a few cats from bad situations in delis by using my lawyer credentials to scare the store owners into handing them over to a rescue group, but that was the extent of my experience in animal welfare. Still, I was confident I could handle rescuing one kitten. Then I spotted two more kittens a few yards away and, a bit less sure of myself, I figured I could handle them, too. When two more of the little ones showed, I knew I was really in trouble.

All my life I’ve loved cats. I grew up the son of a successful doctor and had all the advantages of an upper middle class home, but it was a cold home with little affection or understanding, especially for a precocious, independent-minded boy. My parents were at war with each other, constantly fighting and shouting, even throwing objects at each other and coming to blows. Their rage was often directed towards me. I was in a perpetual state of being punished for one thing or another and sent to my room where I was deprived for days and even weeks on end of toys, other children’s company or any type of activity. I would have to sneak into my brothers’ room to borrow books and would make up my own games with baseball cards I hid under my mattress. I became so isolated, I was forced to eat all my meals alone.

In this dark world, there was one bright light – Spot, my tabby and white cat with the big grey marking on his forehead. Every day, as I sat on the bed in my

room, he’d come visit me. A big cat, he was always getting into fights with the other cats in the neighborhood and I could feel the scratch marks beneath his fur. But towards me, he was as gentle a soul as could be. I would pet him for hours and he would purr and purr, lying by my side. He was my best and only friend. One day without warning, my mother gathered my brothers and myself and took us away to a new town, leaving my father and Spot behind. I returned a year later to my father, but we moved soon too, and my father gave Spot away to a neighbor. The pain of losing him is something I still feel to this day.

So when I saw those kittens playing in the lot, I couldn’t just keep walking. Others in the neighborhood felt the same way and we found one another as we each investigated the situation. It turned out there were over 30 cats and kittens living in the inner courtyards of that block. The colony had started two years before when the owner of a real estate agency took pity on a couple of strays who showed up outside his window and started feeding them. None were neutered and the population soon grew out of control.

We were able to find homes for the kittens — about 20 of them in all — but learned it was near impossible

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Top 10 Power Foods

Heart-Healthy recipes

The “mediterranean Diet”

who says you can’t have...

grilled Chicken ratatouille

Campanelle with Peas and Artichokes

chocolate

grilled Chicken ratatouille We gave this classic Provençal dish a taste of summer by grilling the vegetables traditionally used in ratatouille (bell pepper, eggplant, zucchini, tomato). Topped with grilled chicken, it makes an easy main course for summer entertaining. We like fresh marjoram and basil to complement the flavors, but any fresh herb will work.

makes 4 servingsACTIVE TIME: 45 minsTOTAL TIME: 45 minsEASE OF PREPARATION: easy

3 Tbp. extra-virgin olive oil3 Tbp. chopped fresh basil1 Tbp. chopped fresh marjoram1 tsp. saltCanola or olive oil cooking spray1 red bell pepper, halved lengthwise, stemmed and seeded1 small eggplant, cut into 1/2-in.-thick1 medium zucchini, halved lengthwise4 plum tomatoes, halved lengthwise1 medium red onion, cut into 1/2-inch-thick rounds4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (trimmed and tenders removed) 1/4 tsp. freshly ground pepper1 Tbp. red-wine vinegar

1. Preheat grill to medium-high.2. Combine oil, basil, marjoram and salt in a

small bowl and reserve 1 tsp. of the mixture in another small bowl; set aside.

3. Coat both sides of bell pepper, eggplant, zucchini, tomato and onion pieces with cooking spray. Grill the vegetables, turning once, until soft, and charred in spots, about 5 mins per side for the pepper, 4 mins per side for the eggplant and zucchini and 3 mins per side for the tomatoes and onion. As the vegetables finish cooking, place them in a large bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap.

4. Rub the Tsp. of reserved herb mixture on

both sides of chicken and sprinkle with pepper. Grill the chicken until cooked through and no longer pink in the center, 4 to 5 mins per side.

5. Meanwhile, transfer the grilled vegetables to a cutting board and chop into 1-in. pieces. Return to the bowl and toss with vinegar and the remaining herb mixture. Serve the grilled chicken with the ratatouille.

nuTrITIOn InFOrmATIOn Per serving: 324 cal; 13 g fat (2 g sat, 9 g mono); 82 mg cholesterol; 16 g carbs; 36 g protein; 7 g fiber; 687 mg sodium; 1,063 mg potassium.

nutrition bonus: Vit. C (100% dv), Vit. A (35% dv), Potassium (30% dv), Folate & Magnesium (20% dv). 1/2 Carb Serving (dv = daily value)exchanges: 3 vegetable, 4 lean meat, 2 fat

TIP Note: Portioning chicken breast: It’s difficult to find an individual breast small enough for one portion. Removing the thin strip of meat from the underside of a 5-ounce breast—the “tender”—removes about 1 ounce of meat and yields a perfect 4-ounce portion. Wrap and freeze the tenders and when you have gathered enough, use them in a stir-fry or for oven-baked chicken fingers.

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courtesy of Heart-Healthy Living

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For Your Heart

On Thursday, September 25 at 7 p.m., more than 15,000 runners, walkers and joggers from over 400 Atlanta companies will participate in what has become the largest workplace-organized 5K corporate fitness event in the world. To register, call 404-843-8727 or visit www.kpcorporaterunwalk.com. When you register, be sure to join the macy's team. Family and guests are welcome to join as well. Prizes are available to the first 20 people to register at www.kpcorporaterunwalk.com on the Macy's team.

a 15 year old Macy’s tradition

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How your gifts are helping the cats of New York City and beyond

Neighborhood MewsSpring 2010

Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) involves neutering feral cats, returning them to their territory, and providing for their long-term care. It is the most effective way to reduce the cats’ numbers and ensure their well-being.

Neighborhood Cats Celebrates 10th Anniversary!Reflections by Bryan Kortis, Executive Director

Feral Firsts! Ten Years of Accomplishments Introduce Trap-Neuter-Return on a large scale to New York City

Start a program for training communities across the U.S. to perform TNR

Author a guide on running a community-wide TNR program

Author and publish a complete handbook on Trap-Neuter-Return

Write an online course for managing feral cat colonies

Produce an instructional video on how to perform “mass trapping” – the TNR of entire colonies at once

Create an online feral cat colony database

Enter a contract with a municipality to spay/neuter its local feral cat population

Instruct a national series of workshops on feral cat management

Raising the Status of Feral CatsIn 2003, many of the leading animal welfare organizations

in the U.S. met and drafted what has come to be known as the Asilomar Accords. The goal was to create a uniform system of data collection for all animal shelters in the belief this would greatly aid in reducing companion animal overpopulation. Unfortunately, the final draft of the Accords excluded any mention of TNR and left feral cats classified as unhealthy, untreatable animals who basically should be euthanized.

Last summer, Maddie’s Fund and the working committee that continues to refine and maintain the Asilomar Accords, invited a number of feral cat experts, including Bryan Kortis of Neighborhood Cats, to speak to them about making changes. Bryan traveled to Las Vegas for the meeting and urged the committee to embrace TNR and recognize the return of ferals to managed colonies as both humane and good policy, and should be encouraged. Our hope remains that in the near future, favorable changes to the Accords will be made.

This remarkable journey has been made possible by all the

donors who’ve supported us, whether with a large or small

amount, whether giving only one time or every month.

“”

On July 11, 2010, Neighborhood Cats will be ten years old. It all started a decade ago, when I was walking up the block from my apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. In an empty lot behind an iron fence, I spotted a kitten playing with a leaf in the grass. In the past, I had helped save a few cats from bad situations in delis by using my lawyer credentials to scare the store owners into handing them over to a rescue group, but that was the extent of my experience in animal welfare. Still, I was confident I could handle rescuing one kitten. Then I spotted two more kittens a few yards away and, a bit less sure of myself, I figured I could handle them, too. When two more of the little ones showed, I knew I was really in trouble.

All my life I’ve loved cats. I grew up the son of a successful doctor and had all the advantages of an upper middle class home, but it was a cold home with little affection or understanding, especially for a precocious, independent-minded boy. My parents were at war with each other, constantly fighting and shouting, even throwing objects at each other and coming to blows. Their rage was often directed towards me. I was in a perpetual state of being punished for one thing or another and sent to my room where I was deprived for days and even weeks on end of toys, other children’s company or any type of activity. I would have to sneak into my brothers’ room to borrow books and would make up my own games with baseball cards I hid under my mattress. I became so isolated, I was forced to eat all my meals alone.

In this dark world, there was one bright light – Spot, my tabby and white cat with the big grey marking on his forehead. Every day, as I sat on the bed in my

room, he’d come visit me. A big cat, he was always getting into fights with the other cats in the neighborhood and I could feel the scratch marks beneath his fur. But towards me, he was as gentle a soul as could be. I would pet him for hours and he would purr and purr, lying by my side. He was my best and only friend. One day without warning, my mother gathered my brothers and myself and took us away to a new town, leaving my father and Spot behind. I returned a year later to my father, but we moved soon too, and my father gave Spot away to a neighbor. The pain of losing him is something I still feel to this day.

So when I saw those kittens playing in the lot, I couldn’t just keep walking. Others in the neighborhood felt the same way and we found one another as we each investigated the situation. It turned out there were over 30 cats and kittens living in the inner courtyards of that block. The colony had started two years before when the owner of a real estate agency took pity on a couple of strays who showed up outside his window and started feeding them. None were neutered and the population soon grew out of control.

We were able to find homes for the kittens — about 20 of them in all — but learned it was near impossible

DG

YD

LC

Form Size: 11 x 17” Folds to: 8-1/2 x 3-5/8”Inks: 4/c Process Stock: 60# WO

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E m p l o y E E R E s o u R c E G R o u p

L i i n gH e a l t h y

H e a l t h yL i i n g

For Your Heart

A couple of months ago, veteran TV newsman Tim Russert died of sudden cardiac arrest. At work. At age 58. He was in a high risk group, exhibiting some of the factors associated with the disease—stress, family history, smoking, diabetes, obesity, and middle-aged (the average age for cardiac death is between 58 and 62). His death is a sad reminder that cardiac arrest can strike anyone at any time – even at work. This is not meant to scare you, but rather help educate you, and provide you with some resources to help you.

Did you know that Macy’s has an onsite defibrillator? It’s on the first floor of the 223 building. And check your floor’s kitchen area for a list of medically trained coworkers you can call in an emergency.

Summer 2008Issue #1

Heart Disease - The Silent Killer

We’d love your feedback! Send your comments to:

rosan.Petrillo@macys.com

In our efforts to promote healthy living, Living Healthy is sponsoring 4 upcoming events:

1. Come to our Health Fair in the Auditorium & Lobby on Wednesday, August 27 from 11:30am to 2pm. Our theme is Stress Free Living (at least for a couple of hours!). Please join us for food samples, massages, chiropractic care, health screenings, helpful information, exercise and lots of great giveaways…all Free, just for you.

2. Our after-work exercise program starts again on Tuesday, September 2! We’ll be offering 3 different types of classes, and you’ll have the chance to work out at 5:30pm or 6:30pm, Monday thru Thursday for only $3 per class. More info coming soon!

3. See page 3 to take advantage of a great offer from Kaiser Permanente. It’s open to anyone (even if you’re not a KP member). Be a part of the Macy’s team participating in the Corporate run/Walk & Fitness Program which includes a FREE 8-week membership to Bally Fitness, podcasts & training plans by Olympian Jeff Galloway, and more.

4. We hope you’ll continue to train and join us at the Pat Foell 5K race on Sunday, October 19.

Hope to see you soon!

You Count!Living Healthy ERG

We want you to know that Macy’s has an Employee Resource Group here dedicated to your health and wellbeing. We’re called Living Healthy. Our objective is to develop awareness and initiatives that foster responsible choices towards healthier living, and to create a support system for various health issues. We’re always looking for new members! See our intranet page under “diversity.”