| Name: |
Gunda Kuga
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| Title: |
Graphic Designer and Production Specialist
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| Strategic role: |
Bringing ideas to life through innovative design
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| Where she's been: |
A practical creative? Or a creative perfectionist? However you label
her, Gunda is a one-of-a-kind artist who still manages to sweat the
stuff of strategy, budgets and timelines. With decades of professional
experience under her belt, including stints as director of advertising
for Joslins, May D&F and Fashion Bar, she is endlessly resourceful
in helping clients mine new ideas and stretch marketing dollars. Weeding
out too-creative ideas, ganging print jobs, investigating new binding
methods—Gunda is passionate about maximizing a client’s
budget without sacrificing the creative vision. Whether it’s
a fashion catalog, brochure or magazine ad, clients rely on Gunda
to produce it beautifully and efficiently.
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| Passions: |
Any class at the gym, theme cooking, the breakneck speed of Avalanche
games and stretching my creative muscles on the computer.
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| Peeves: |
Techno mumbo jumbo, unrealistic deadlines, computer error messages
and being put on hold.
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| Nighttime reading: |
Bobby Flay’s Grilling For Life or any other hot cookbook of
the moment.
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| Client nirvana: |
“Sometimes it just clicks with a client. She understands how
integral design is to achieving marketing objectives, but she also
lets me do what I do best.”
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| Words to live by: |
“I’m still seeking my own words to live by, but ‘Carpe
diem’ comes pretty close.”
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