Lauren is a graphic designer living in Los Angeles. Her print, identity and interactive projects include advertisements, publications, packaging, logos, and websites. In addition, she is experienced as a photo shoot art director, photographer (including stock images available on iStockphoto), digital imaging technician, trainer for staff in both Adobe and prepress software, graphic design writer, copywriter, and marketing assistant.

Strongly proficient in numerous applications, Lauren possesses extensive knowledge of Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro, InDesign, and more. Her in-depth technical skills range from prepress and preflight processes to web development using XHTML, CSS and PHP.

With more than seven years of professional graphic design experience, Lauren thrived during her five years at the primary daily paper of Santa Barbara, the News-Press, and also as an essential member of the Santa Barbara Promotions advertising agency. She values her relationships with a wide variety of satisfied clients such as All India Cafe, Raymond Arias Construction, Interactive Solutions, Sea Glass Records, 91.9 KCSB-FM and Kymberlee Ruff, MFT. In addition, she writes articles as the Los Angeles Graphic Design Examiner for the online publication Examiner.com.

Lauren graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where she studied Studio Art and Psychology. She is currently enrolled in the UCLA Extension Advanced Web and Interactive Design Certificate program.