Hello, my name is
Michelle Schott
Creative Problem-Solver
Highly Accomplished Designer and Creative Director
Known for her integrity, humility, and forward-thinking
work ethic...
Michelle excels at transforming complex ideas into engaging visual stories, while adhering to or establishing on-brand visual language. Michelle led a design team for nearly a decade at Age of Learning, Inc., where her leadership and organizational skills were pivotal in defining the company’s visual identity, accomplishing its branding and marketing goals, and establishing team processes and workflows as the company evolved to a remote, and then a hybrid work environment. During her tenure, she was instrumental in producing over 25,000 high-quality deliverables, founding the Brand Marketing and Creative Services departments, and working closely with executive leadership on product prototyping, marketing campaigns, event planning, and various innovative solutions.
Skills
- Art direction
- Branding and identity
- Brand cohesion
- Color theory
- Graphic design
- Page layout
- Illustration
- Information graphics
- Presentations
- Photo retouching
- Color correction
- Image restoration
Software
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe XD
- Adobe Exchange
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Keynote
- Microsoft Word
- Google Suite
- Atlassian Jira
- Atlassian Confluence
- Smartsheet
- Trello
Education
Northeastern University • Boston, MA
Bachelor of Science
Graphic Design & Visual Communication
Summa Cum Laude
Michelle is an expert problem-solver with 20+ years of experience transforming intricate concepts into powerful, on-brand visual narratives across diverse media and software platforms.
2015-2023
Age of Learning
Design Director
Directed a team within the in-house agency, responsible for the support and development of corporate as well as various product brands, encompassing all brand presence and communication.
2012-2015
Age of Learning:
ABCmouse.com
Graphic Designer
Conceptualized, designed, and built featured books, puzzles, animations, offline activities, lesson plans, and more.
2009–2011
Charlie Chan Printing
2006–2009
Macson Printing & Lithography
2001–2015
Freelance
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
- Client collaboration
- Conceptual development
- Brand alignment
- Logo design
- Page layout
- Image restoration and manipulation
- Preflighting
- Digital imposition
- Color separation
2006
Loyola Marymount University
Adjunct Instructor
Art 369 Design and Prepress: Developed and taught this art course for third and fourth year design students which explored techniques and challenges of design for offset printing2001–2006
Delta Graphics
Prepress Manager
- Ad preparation and submission
- Image scanning, color correction, and retouching
- Typesetting, revisions, and preflighting
- Development and documentation of workflows
- Proofing, imposition and plate making
- Trapping and color separation
- Management and maintenance of digital and physical archives, software, hardware, and other prepress equipment