Dean Temple
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2003 to present
Creative Director, Drake Creative LLC, Millbrook, NY
Lead concept development, project management and copy writing. Expertise includes brand development across multiple media, website architecture and user interface design, and large-scale graphic design for building facades and projected as theatrical backdrops. Key recent projects:
Publishing: Led identity and website development for book authors including the best-selling Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit by Azim Khamisa and Jillian Quinn (Random House); American Taliban by Pearl Abraham (Random House); Leslie Land (The New York Times 1000 Gardening Questions & Answers, Workman Press; The New York Times); Identity and interactive online project development for Linda Weintraub (Avant Guardians; and In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, D.A.P.); Online identity for Marolyn Charpentier (La France Gourmand, Anova).
Blue Flower Arts: Ongoing branding development for print and web for literary speakers bureau representing major memoirists, novelists and poets.
VDay: Designed and produced projected graphics and short video for performances by Eve Ensler. Venues include TED2010 Long Beach (I am an Emotional Creature) the New Orleans Superdome and Superdome Arena (V to the Tenth); Hammerstein Ballroom (V to the Tenth NYC, Kickoff to New Orleans); Lincoln Center (Any One of Us); and the Apollo Theatre (Vaginas Vote, Chicks Rock).
Internet Archive/Library of Congress: Developed web strategy for joint project and designed search engine interface for an archive of the 20th Century Internet.
Morgan Stanley Capital International: Wrote and developed information design for Worldwide Guidebook for the Exchange Traded Funds division.
Bank of Millbrook: Comprehensive branding overhaul including logo, advertising, web presence, printed materials, and environmental graphics.
Dyson Foundation: Developed new web strategy focused on ease of use for grant seekers, as well as a protected interactive space for a regional funders’ network.
1996 to 2002
InterMarketing Services, Principal, New York, NY
Owned marketing and production company. Projects included:
Eternal Memory: Voices from the Great Terror: Produced feature-length documentary film on Stalinist purges in Western Ukraine during World War II and narrated by Meryl Streep. Winner Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Media Network. Featured documentary at Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. International Documentary Association Awards nomination.
The $130 Billion Game: Author of 364-page business trade book analyzing 105 government gaming organizations and their marketing practices.
FABY Games: Game development, design and branding for Wordthief (the number two best-seller at Barnes and Noble 2000-2001), National Trash and Word Rich (winner Games Magazine Game of the Year 2005).
Cash & Prizes: Developed concept, design and market strategy for consumer magazine about corporate-sponsored sweepstakes. Achieved profitability in third year.
IFR Latin America: Launch and production of controlled circulation publication for Thomson Financial Publishing, distributed to bankers and government officials.
1990 to 1995
International Media Partners (division of Euromoney), Managing Editor, New York, NY
Edited, produced and wrote for publications including Emerging Markets, CEO International Strategies, and AIG World Markets Advisory. Also wrote and produced marketing materials for Computer Associates, the Alexander Consulting Group, PTA Bank, and the governments of the Philippines, Taiwan and India.
FREELANCE WRITING
Publications include: Tennis, Penthouse, Avenue, Mountain Sports and Living, Africa Confidential, The Gulf News (Dubai), Southern African Decisions, The Country and Abroad, Euromoney, and Emerging Markets.
DIRECTORSHIPS
2007 to Present
Dutchess County Arts Council Board of Directors, Poughkeepsie, NY
Vice Chairman for Allocations. Vet and approve all grant allocations for organization named one of the nation’s four top regional arts councils by Art Calendar Magazine.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Russian Language and Literature, Columbia University, 1990.