KRISTEN GIRARD

Ms. Girard is a multimedia journalist living in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in creating digital and print solutions for financial and economic content. To see samples of her work:

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What could long-term care cost?

State by state comparison of the cost of long-term care.

Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Find data on long-term health care projections broken down by state & present a user friendly interactive solution.

Role: Art direction for the user interface, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, Tridion (CMS)

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How much do you need to retire?

The rule of thumb is 8x your ending salary.

Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Design & build a user friendly interactive to enable readers to see how much money they will need to retire.

Role: Art direction for the user interface, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, Tridion (CMS)

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Tax hikes ahead: Be prepared

Compare current tax rates vs. a potential increase.


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Design & build a user friendly interactive to enable readers to compare tax rates.

Role: Art direction for the user interface, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, Tridion (CMS)

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Young & scared to invest

Fidelity's analysis estimates Gen Y households will have an income gap shortfall.


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Design & build a user friendly interactive to enable readers to see how the gap might be able to be closed.

Role: Art direction for the user interface, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, Tridion (CMS)

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Estate taxes

How a tax increase might effect the estate & gift tax.


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Design & build a user friendly interactive to enable readers to see how a tax increase might effect the estate & gift tax.

Role: Art direction for the user interface, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, Tridion (CMS)

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Real returns with taxes and inflation

Taxes and inflation can have a big impact on returns.


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Design & build a user friendly interactive to enable readers to see how a returns are effected by taxes & inflation.

Role: Art direction for the user interface, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, Tridion (CMS)

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Gotham Ghostwriters Website

Redesign and develop front-end of website.

Company: Gotham Ghostwriters

Project: Design & build a responsive website based on strict design parameters.

Role: Creative director for the user interface & design of website. Front-end development and implementation.

Tools: Bootstrap, HTML5, JavaScript, Jquery, PHP, Photoshop & Illustrator

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Interfor Website

Redesign and build front-end of website.

Company: Interfor International

Project: Design & build website.

Role: Creative director for the user interface & design of website. Front-end development and implementation.

Tools: Bootstrap, HTML5, JavaScript, Jquery, PHP, Photoshop & Illustrator

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Bond Bubble Ready to Burst?

Income can help offset falling prices.

Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Design a graphic to explain how income generated from bonds can offset losses from an increase in interest rates.

Role: Art direction, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML & Tridion (CMS)

Interview with Jeremy Grantham

Q&A - 5 Minutes with Jeremy Grantham

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: Interview, write and design a special series on investment strategists.

Role: Interviewed, wrote, art direction, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML & MS Word

Inside the Index

A Not-So-Nifty Fifty

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: Design a special series called Inside the Index

Role: Art direction, design and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, FactSet, MS Excel, HTML & MS Word

Olympic Winners

Olympic sponsors pay millions to showcase their brands during the games.

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: Create a design around a story and data for the Winter Olympics.

Role: Art direction, design, data research & retrevial and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, FactSet, MS Excel, HTML & MS Word

They Love Monday

Retailers call the Monday after Thanksgiving Cyber Monday.

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: Create a design around a story and data for Cyber Monday.

Role: Art direction, design, data research & retrevial and implementation.

Tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, FactSet, MS Excel, HTML & MS Word

Wall Street Journal Sunday

Drive Buy: Hybrids Now Are a Better Deal

Company: Wall Street Journal Sunday

Project: Conceptualize editorial illustration and design and layout assigned sections of the paper.

Role: Conceptualized editorial illustrations, hired illustrators, designed and laid out page, researched and retrieved data from Thomson Reuters data platfrom and created charts.

Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, Excel, Thomson Reuters data, HTML, HERMES Content Management System.

Wall Street Journal Sunday

Watch Out for That 70s Show: Inflation

Company: Wall Street Journal Sunday

Project: Conceptualize editorial illustration and design and layout assigned sections of the paper.

Role: Conceptualized editorial illustrations, hired illustrators, designed and laid out page, researched and retrieved data from Thomson Reuters data platfrom and created charts.

Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop, Excel, Thomson Reuters data, HTML, HERMES Content Management System.

Wall Street Journal Special Reports

The Hottest Vacation-Home Markets

Company: Wall Street Journal Special Reports

Project: Research areas around the country and find out where the hottest vacation-homes exist.

Role: Research, photo retrieval and editing, design and layout page.

Tools: Web, Illustrator, Photoshop, Excel, HTML, HERMES Content Management System.

Vendy Awards

Celebration of street food culture in NYC.

Company: Associated Press - Lifestyles

Project: Shoot and interview subjects at the Vendy Awards.

Role: Planned shoot, managed and executed video production including the shoot, interviews and edit.

Tools: Final Cut Pro, SONY HDV camcorder with microphone attachment, and tripod.

Lifestyles: Learn how to ride a bicycle

Company: Associated Press - Lifestyles

Project: Shoot and interview subjects at the Learn how to ride a bicycle event in Dumbo, Brooklyn

Role: Planned shoot, managed and executed video production including the shoot, interviews and edit.

Music: Composed by Merrill Sherman.

Tools: Final Cut Pro, SONY HDV camcorder with microphone attachment, and tripod.

Your Money: Renters insurance

An inside look.

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: In home interview with a couple that had renters insurance.

Role: Planned editorial content, managed and executed video production including the shoot, interview and edit.

Music: Composed by Merrill Sherman.

Tools: Final Cut Pro, SONY HDV camcorder with microphone attachment, and tripod.

Your Money: New credit card rules

Credit card legislation.

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: In studio interview with Trevor Delaney about credit card legislation.

Role: Planned editorial content, managed studio video production, tape transfer edited video for final publishing.

Tools: Final Cut Pro, SONY HDV camcorder with microphone attachment, and tripod.

Your Money: Credit Card Changes

Senate voted to prohibit credit card companies from arbitrarily raising interest rates.


Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: Studio interview with Trevor Delaney about credit card legislation.

Role: Planned editorial content, managed studio video production, tape transfer and edited video for final publishing.

Tools: Final Cut Pro, SONY HDV camcorder with microphone attachment, and tripod.

Credit Cards and College

Senate passes new law protecting students from predatory lending practices.

Company: Associated Press - Money & Markets

Project: Studio interview with Trevor Delaney about the new law protecting students from predatory lending practices.

Role: Planned editorial content, managed studio video production, tape transfer and edited video for final publishing.

Tools: Final Cut Pro, SONY HDV camcorder with microphone attachment, and tripod.

Benjamin Hesse - Fidelity Investments

Discusses how the fiscal cliff could affect certain sectors.


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Edit down an extensive conversation between the vice president and head of global equity research and 3 portfolio managers into 3 separate segments.

Role: Edited the video into 3 separate segments.

Tools: Final Cut Pro

Chad Coleman - Fidelity Investments,

Discusses how the fiscal cliff could affect certain sectors.

Chad Coleman, portfolio manager, industrials


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Edit down an extensive conversation between the vice president and head of global equity research and 3 portfolio managers into 3 separate segments.

Role: Edited the video into 3 separate segments.

Tools: Final Cut Pro

Edward Yoon - Fidelity Investments

Discusses how the fiscal cliff could affect certain sectors.


Company: Fidelity Investments - Viewpoints

Project: Edit down an extensive conversation between the vice president and head of global equity research and 3 portfolio managers into 3 separate segments.

Role: Edited the video into 3 separate segments.

Tools: Final Cut Pro

World Trade Center

View of Brooklyn from Windows on the World.


Company: Self

Project: First exploration of the city with a camera.

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Nikon D and Beselar Enlarger

Man: 9/11

Corner of Sullivan & Broome St. SOHO.


Company: CBS bought the rights to use the photograph for a TV special on the terrorist attack.

Project:Self interest

Role: Photographed the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

St. Anthony's Festival

Street photography: Man walking by.

Company: Self

Project: St. Anthony's Festival in SOHO.

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Couple On a Bench


Company: Self

Project: Exploring The Cloisters

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Couple Watching a Wedding

Exploring The Cloisters

Company: Self

Project: Exploring The Cloisters

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Couple On a Bench with Wall


Company: Self

Project: Exploring The Cloisters

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Ellis Island

Waiting in line.

Company: Self

Project: Exploring Ellis Island

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Exploring Fire Island

Lighthouse

Company: Self

Project: Exploring Fire Island

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Exploring Coney Island

Coney Island Carousel Tickets


Company: Self

Project: Exploring Coney Island

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Exploring Coney Island

Coney Island Ticket Booth

Company: Self

Project: Exploring Coney Island

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Exploring Coney Island

3 Horses


Company: Self

Project: Exploring Coney Island

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Exploring Coney Island

Horses On a Carousel


Company: Self

Project: Exploring Coney Island

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

The Ear Inn

Cocktails


Company: Self

Project: N/A

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

The Ear Inn

Cocktails

Company: Self

Project: N/A

Role: Street Photography

Tools: Lomographic Camera and Beselar Enlarger

Contact

If you would like to discuss an upcoming project I can be reached at:

em: kristen.girard@gmail.com