Advertising Art Director, Creative Director, Graphic Designer, Web Designer, Educator

Lisa is a multi-faceted creative person who began her career in advertising and has expanded her talents into many areas beyond.

Upon graduating Parsons School of Design, Lisa started working at the venerable Madison Avenue ad agency, Young & Rubicam, working from the beginning on major national advertisers producing TV and print for clients like General Foods and Bristol Meyers. Her print work on the Oil of Olay account won awards and gained her notice in industry publications.

She moved on to Backer & Spielvogel where she produced television commercials for everything from the Miller Brewing Co, to Campbell's Soup to Helene Curtis --for which she won 3 Effie awards.

She was hired away by McCann Erickson as a Creative Supervisor producing a national TV campaign for Coca Cola and print on L'Oreal cosmetics.

She has since worked on staff at Euro RSCG working on Lean Cuisine, Philips Electronics, MCI, and Dr. Scholl's.

She has freelanced at Havas Start Farm, Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey Advertising, Lowe Healthcare, Draft FCB, just to name a few.

Additionally, Lisa has worked on an array of graphic design, web site and advertising projects for private clients.

Pharmaceutical

Her Pharmaceutical experience runs the gamut, here are just a few highlights:

At Grey Worldwide she produced TV and print for Pfizer introducing Serevent and Flovent with Jackie Joyner Kersee. She worked on the pitch for Cialis, which the agency won.

At Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare she worked on the pitch for Chantix.

At Pace, (Lowe Healthcare) she worked on print and television campaigns for the birth control drugs, Seasonale, Seasonique and Paragard. At Havas Strat Farm she worked on pitches for a Rheumatoid Arthritis  and Dermatitis medications.

Lisa has been working with the Macintosh computer since its inception. Completely self-taught, she has parlayed her expertise in Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver and Adobe’s newest web application Muse into teaching others. Since 2002, she has been an adjunct instructor at several colleges: SUNY WCC Center for the Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and for the Media Arts Graduate program at Sacred Heart University. She taught Photoshop and InDesign for the town of Bronxville, Adult Education Program. She has been a private tutor in all of these applications as well.

​Presently she is a trainer with American Graphics Institute.

In June 2013, Lisa started and became the manager of the Westchester County Adobe User Group,  westchesteraug.groups.adobe.com

When not doing art & design, you'll find her doing her other life as a jazz singer, www.lisamaxwellsingsjazz.com