Jim Hance Graphic Communications

Jim Hance Graphic Communications Publications designer, editor and copywriter, promoter and DJ of Florida Cajun and zydeco dance even “Design that engages. Box 13745, St.

Copy that sells.”

PUBLICATIONS DESIGNER with experience producing newspapers, visitor guides, research publications, maps, online projects, informational kiosks and performance reports for investment firms. Produced multi-volume proposal publications requiring extreme accuracy, precise adherence to client formatting specifications, thorough production planning and follow-through, and quick produc

tion revisions that won more than $4 billion in contract awards. I am adept at coordinating and executing multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines, responding to the special needs of individuals within and without the organization, and producing publications and advertising that are consistent with brand and production requirements. Accomplishments include increasing worldwide prominence of convention bureau through branding of marketing collateral and publications; helped win a $20 million grant for nature conservancy through publication of newsletter publication; helped triple AUM for investment firm through branded marketing campaign; and produced 4 proposals for construction management firm which won $3.75 billion of construction contracts on military bases. "Jim has an amazing way to get to the heart of what you want to communicate. He can design something that says more than you ever imagined it would." -- Robin Rierdan, Executive Director, Lakeside's River Park Conservancy

Mailing address: Jim Hance, P.O. Petersburg, FL 33733
Phone: 619-203-0522

Specialties
Editor, graphic designer and publications specialist experienced in the tourism, financial services, arts, special events, non-profit and construction industries producing printed collateral, Web promotions, trade show exhibits, publications, presentations and proposals.

Florida Cajun Zydeco Update #137 for October 2024 is published. Settle into your easy chair for some long-read stories ...
09/30/2024

Florida Cajun Zydeco Update #137 for October 2024 is published.

Settle into your easy chair for some long-read stories about some of your favorite artists. Learn about the very first recording of Boozoo Chavis in 1954 in the words of Eddie Shuler, owner of Goldband Records. Learn about Rosie Ledet's secret passion for horror stories. Learn about what prompted rocker Wayne Toups to want to make an all-acoustic recording. Learn about how the album, Folk Singer, by Muddy Waters was made — lauded today as one of the finest recordings ever —and why Willie Dixon was a key participant in making it.

Excerpt: “People started telling me, ‘Boy, you act different when you’re on stage.’ And I just started thinking about it, and I realized that it’s like, nobody can bother you when you’re on stage — you’re just somewhere else. You can do whatever you want. You’re safe.” — Rosie Ledet

https://indd.adobe.com/view/c155fc81-8b07-4bb4-9d00-f3f955c2aa87

Update #136 is published! Stories include: The Making of the first recording of Cajun music connects with the present; ...
09/01/2024

Update #136 is published! Stories include: The Making of the first recording of Cajun music connects with the present; Terrance Simien finds a world connected by music; Son of Greatness: C.J. Chenier; Old Crow Medicine Show to headline Suwannee Roots Revival (the band's story connects with Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, Marty Stuart, Darius Rucker, and just about everybody in bluegrass music; RCA’s Dynaflex vinyl records of the 1970s; and Festival-O-Rama. The final issue of this publication will come out June 1, 2025. You can download this publication as a .pdf if you would like to keep it. Enjoy!
https://indd.adobe.com/view/9cedeefb-bc3f-4782-ac46-6da9bd0f768e

08/24/2024

Some stories I will publish in the Sept. issue of Update! will be on Terrance Simien, CJ Chenier (both celebrate birthdays in September), the controversial thin Dynaflex vinyl LPs that RCA made in the 1970s, the latest from Festivals Acadiens, Old Crow Medicine Show band appearing at Suwannee Roots Revival in October, and probably an "Adventure in Vinyl" story on the very funky 1974 release by Little Feat, "Feats Don't Fail Me Now."

Curious about Affinity Publisher as a replacement for Adobe InDesign for graphic design work?
08/05/2024

Curious about Affinity Publisher as a replacement for Adobe InDesign for graphic design work?

Here are some considerations in assessing the rival to the industry standard design tools.

The 135th edition of my Florida Cajun and Zydeco Update! publication can be read at the link below. Feature stories incl...
08/01/2024

The 135th edition of my Florida Cajun and Zydeco Update! publication can be read at the link below. Feature stories include two zydeco artists born in August (Lynn August and Fernest Arceneaux), a book review of Bob Dylan's Philosophy of Modern Song, and "Why bluegrass music has a home in Florida."

My final edition of this publication will be the June 2025 edition. You are welcome to save a .pdf of this publication to keep forever! (or at least as long as you want.)

Here is a teaser from the book review: “Bobby Osborne’s daredevil vocal swoops, sustained notes, and the drive of the twin banjos with lightning runs combined to make something so staggeringly propulsive it would most likely make Yngwie Malmsteen scratch his head. This is speed metal without the embarrassment of Spandex and junior high school devil worship.”

https://indd.adobe.com/view/a30d4ecf-853c-40e4-907d-e0343e297042

07/31/2024

Writing a story about bluegrass music in Florida from the first broadcast of Suwannee River Jamboree on radio station WNER (Florida) in 1952, to the Stanley Brothers headlining the program 1958-1962 in Live Oak, Florida, to the establishment of the Suwannee Music Park by the Cornett family, to the Suwannee Roots Revival October 10-13, 2024. It will be included in the Florida Cajun Zydeco Update #135 that I will post today on this page.

06/18/2024

A message to CreativePro Magazine: I was just wondering if your workshops at CreativePro Week and your stories on software production techniques will possibly expand beyond the industry leader, Adobe. Obviously most creative pros are using Adobe, but particularly the inclusion of AI into all of their products are transforming tools I have relied on for several decades to do specific tasks. I suspect that other graphic designers are thinking about possibly "cutting the cord" with Adobe in the same way they may have migrated from a cable provider. Part of the interest in other products is economic and getting off the subscription model (paying rent on apps they never use), and part of that interest may be simply removing ourselves from an ecosystem of reliance on a brand name that is mining our information the same way Amazon mines its customers. We're being groomed to accept the direction Adobe is taking, though our software tasks and needs remain pretty much the same as in decades past. CreativePro Magazine has run stories on Affinity products in 3 issues, and I don't think any editorial has run about Quark or Corel Draw products (not that I'm much interested in them, but I know they have been used by colleagues). But that little amount of coverage in alternative products seems to indicate that those products are viewed as not yet having earned their space at the professional design discussion table. I am brand new to looking seriously at Affinity, and I am not yet convinced I can do my work comfortably with those products. But I would like to read more about how others are adapting to different tools as I get acquainted with them myself, and how tools from "off the grid" might restore a measure of control in a changing landscape.

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