Welcome to my blog



 

 

 ABOUT ME 

My name is Bob Ward and I am a retired graphic designer/print production artist. I have worked for commercial printers, marketing departments, stationary companys, international banks, ad agencies, & benefit administrators. With over 40 years in the graphics busness my last employers were;

Businessolver
Mercer
Hill Holliday

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My Photography

Today, I am exploring my creative side by continuing my passion of photography. Now using my Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max, I have incredible zoom and digital capabilities with the camera on this phone. Being constantly inspired by my environment, I am constantly taking pictures and learning new techniques while developing my own individual photographic style. I have particular interest in local view photography for the tourism industry.

All images are for sale and with a printing partner I can pass down great discounts of my images printed to canvas, with or without a thin frame. Be sure to check out my different photography pages on this website.

Things have sure changed since I first studied shooting, developing and printing black and white photography back in 1978. Studying for my BFA, Photography was my minor study (Graphic Design was my major), back at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, MA. Unfortunately the college no longer exist and the art program is now part of the UMass Dartmouth's art curriculum.

These days, my iPhone has taken the place of my Nikon D-50 digital camera. After several fails with the Nikon D-50 and utilizing the compactness, availability, excellent camera lens and the ability to quickly take and download image files to my MacBook pro, I have gravitated to the iPhone with its excellent camera features. Because the iPhone fits in your pocket, one can take a picture at a moments notice or impulse. And with the advent of social media it has become customary to share images online for quick acknowledgment or delivery.

 

You can view the actual framed and
ready for purchase photographs
HERE.

Also, visit bobdward.myportfolio.com to preview more of my ready,
framed and unframed prints for sale. 

Checkout my YouTube channel where you can view my videos made for Roslindale Open Studios promotion, Roslindale Village Main Streets events, local Boston happenings and my travel videos from Brazil.

 

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MY PAST VOLUNTEER WORK

  • ROSLINDALE VILLAGE MAIN STREET (RVMS)

I helped promote my community of Roslindale by volunteering for the Roslindale Village Main Street (RVMS) program. 
I was active on the RVMS Marketing team for many years creating ads, videos and other promotional collateral. Additionally, I provide pro bono graphic design, print production, and photography services for RVMS.
Roslindale Village Main Street

  • ROSLINDALE OPEN STUDIOS

 As one of the original organizers of Roslindale Open Studios (ROS), I provided volunteer hours and creative pro bono services including: graphic and logo design, program brochure, ads, banners, signage, print production to help brand and market the event. 
Roslindale Open Studios

 

 

 —  RECOMMENDATIONS  —

"By the way, our prepress operators told me that your file was absolutely great...they wish all of our clients would send in files as perfect as yours!"
                                   
— Don Woo at Park Press, So. Holland, IL

"Bob, What can I say— you are the best! Thanks for ALL
you have done for Roslindale Open Studios. The brochure, postcards, advertisements and posters that you worked your graphic design magic on helped to make the event a huge success. I really appreciate all your dedication. It was a pleasure working with you."
            
  — Janice Williams, Roslindale Open Studios Coordinator

“As a volunteer on the Marketing Committee that I chair for Roslindale Village Main Street, Bob is an excellent resource for our social media, design, print and video needs. He is passionate about promoting small businesses and demonstrates a strong understanding of the challenges that small business owners face in this economic climate. Bob has a prolific talent for conceptualizing and then producing short videos to raise awareness of Roslindale's events and neighborhood character. We have also relied on him for a long time to develop our printed promotions, as he is very skilled in design and print production. He always takes initiative, always delivers a high quality product, and is always willing to do more. Bob is a stellar, invaluable member of our team - I wish we had 10 more just like him!”
— Erin Lyons, Director of the HSPH Annual Fund, Office of External Relations, Harvard School of Public Health

 

MORE ABOUT ME 

As a teenager I attained the Boy Scouts of America highest honors; Eagle Scout

Competed on the Seekonk High School (MA) Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track teams for 4 years.

Fastest times were as follows;

880 Yards (.5 mile); 2 minutes, 8 seconds
1 Mile run; 4 minutes, 56 seconds
2 Mile run; 10 minutes, 36 seconds

In my Senior year I was Tri-Captian of the Seekonk High School, leading the Outdoor Track Team to first place in the 1975 New England Championships, under the illustrious coach Frank Mooney.

 

 

Thursday
Nov122009

Wicked Local— Roslindale's Open Studios opens minds to art

Tuesday
Nov102009

I just registered for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Unleashed

You'll learn how to take advantage of the latest new features in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat, and how to intergrate between the Creative Suite applications. The workshop will give your workflow a power boost, and see how to take things to the next level with interactive content, Flash, 3D and more! All this for $49 and a full day of classes. It's at the Boston Convention Center, Tuesday December 1, 2009 while space is available. To find out more go to; www.KelbytrainingLIVE.com. See you there! 

Sunday
Nov082009

Roslindale Open Studios This Weekend. See me on YouTube!

Tuesday
Nov032009

My site # has changed for Roslindale Open Studios

Tuesday
Oct132009

Branding Bob D Ward

It's a whole new world out there with companies downsizing in this economy. Hit bad are the advertising agencies. I became a victim to a layoff recently and finding work is almost nonexistent, especially for what I do — print production. Print is certainly not dead but the printing industry has been hit hard by the recession. So in my efforts to reposition myself as a print production artist, I have made some changes in my job search strategy. 

First, my boat house graphic (which I have used on my business card now for almost 10 years) will become more prominent.
I felt it necessary to keep the same image rather than create a new one since the current image has gained much respect and recognition. It's actually a photograph that I took while taking a walk one day on my lunch break when I was working at ad agency Baldwin & Stone, which was located in Harvard Square in Cambridge MA. You may not have heard of Baldwin & Stone (formally called Harcomm) but you certainly knew its clients W.B. Mason or Citistreet. It was a March afternoon and I strolled down to the Charles River and was on the river banks across from the Weld Boathouse, (the name of the boathouse in the image). The trees had no leaves so using Photoshop I colored in the foliage and ran the image through a few filters to give it a painterly effect—an effect that I still use today on many of my photographic images.

I learned about Kuler which is a FREE web-hosted application,
to explore, create and share color themes fully integrated within Adobe Creative Suite (CS4). Essentially if you have a photograph or vector based image and you want to use colors from within that image Kuler extracts the main colors to have the look and feel of that image that you can use in your layout, web page, blog, your bedroom walls, or what ever your color project may be. So I imported my boat house graphic into Kuler and came up with these web based colors that I am using on this website, my business card and all my self promotional items. The colors are saved in a file format called Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) where you can import these colors into color palettes of your favorite Adobe program ie; Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator. The numbers below each color represents the web based color. Learn more about Adobe Kuler.

The boathouse graphic is my self branding image and I use it
on all my self promotion and stationary projects using the Kuler created color palette above. 

This blog, which is built into my new website is part of my strategy to help generate new job leads in an effort to bring
you the latest information in social media, graphics, branding, marketing, advertising, type, color, printing and imaging technology. My goal is to update the content regularly and have useful information for other print production artists as well as graphic designers and photographers. Please feel free to comment or contribute to my blog. 

 

Saturday
Oct102009

Roslindale Open Studios is One Month Away

Pictured below is the display window of the Roslindale Branch of the Boston Public Library. The 3 windows make a great opportunity for a repeat pattern of the logo that I designed. The event this year is November 7 & 8.

Thursday
Oct082009

Welcome to My New Website!

Here is my first entry into my blog!

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