Joe Santa
127-12 103 Ave
New York, NY 11419
Mobile +1.646.342.5234
E-Mail josephsanta@gmail.com

I am a multi-talented art director and graphic designer with a broad range of experience in print, web and interactive media. My passion for design and communication first emerged during my undergrad at Cornell University.

An early admission into the social class of tax-payers rendered me an editorial designer for a parenting magazine, as well as a print-production artist who worked with Sony Music, Arista Records, BMG, V2-Geestreet, Maurice Villency and Scholastic.

My storied history with Corbis began as an Art Director who developed the strategy, concept and design for international marketing campaigns. The swatch-book inspired ‘Humans’ catalog is regarded as a creative milestone in the industry that garnered praise and attention from Communication Arts, HOW, and Graphic Design: USA.

As Design Director for News, Multimedia and Assignment Services, I developed an XML-driven platform that paired class A Corbis contributors with advertising and assignment opportunities.
I traveled extensively as a Senior Art Director to create commercial photography at Corbis. A natural gravity towards business and technology allowed me to train photographers in the production of globally-relevant, commercially-viable imagery. I worked B2B with Aetna and Deloitte to create a pilot ‘shot-to-order’ program that generated nearly a milion dollars of revenue in its first year.

These days, I work in Production Management as a liason between Creative Photography and Media Services. By association with contributors, I am developing a global gateway for photographers, illustrators and motion producers to contract, upload and interact with each other online.

In 2003, I served as a judge of Interactive Design for the Art Directors Club of NJ. My work as an mentor through the Board of Education was recognized in a short segment on ABC News in 2004. I was a presenter for the Best Use of Photography at the Hatch Awards in 2005, as well as a panelist for Advertising Age’s “Hispanic 2.0” conference in 2006.