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| Director, Web and Creative Services |
As Director, Web and Creative Services, Howard Levine is part of the 92nd Street Y's senior management team. He oversees the graphic design and Web operations of the 92nd Street Y, a cultural institution and community center founded in 1874 offering more than 35 distinct educational, performing arts, fitness, health, social and family programs that serve more than 300,000 visitors annually. Mr. Levine directs a team of graphic designers who produce over 1,500 of pieces of collateral material each year and a new-media group that promotes the Y's programs online through an award-winning Website (www.92Y.org), virtual tours, podcasts and a blog (blog.92Y.org). To increase the 92nd Street Y's profile, the Web team also develops search engine optimization, Internet advertising, and segmented email, which directs information on specific Y programs to discreet populations, e.g. classical music-lovers, lecture-goers, new parents and art students.
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Howard Levine joined the 92nd Street Y staff as Creative Director in 2001. He added Web Services to his portfolio in 2002 after playing an instrumental role in developing the information architecture and design of 92nd Street Y's first e-commerce Website, www.92Y,org, launched in 2003. Today the site accounts for 40 percent of the Y's revenues and is visited by more than 3 million people from every state in the U.S. and around the world — up from 2 million in 2006 and 1 million in 2005. In both 2004 and 2007, the site won the CyberSpace Award from the New York Society of Association Executives (NYSAE).
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Before joining the staff of the 92nd Street Y, Mr. Levine was Art Director at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. There he led a design team responsible for the graphic identity of seven plays and over 50 dance, music and special events. He has worked on more than 50 professional theater productions including both the American and world premieres by playwrights Emily Mann, Athol Fugard, David Leveaux, Nilo Cruz, Dael Orlandersmith, Richard Greenberg and Doug Wright. Two of the plays, Mann's Having Our Say and Leveaux's production of Electra, starring Zoe Wanamaker, went on to Tony-nominated Broadway runs.
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As an independent creative director, Howard Levine has created branding, design and marketing campaigns for The American Boychoir, ArtPride New Jersey, Crossroads Theatre Company, Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive, New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, George Street Playhouse, Greater Media Newspapers, Kwong Fat Printing (Hong Kong), The National Conference of Christians and Jews, New Jersey Nursery and Landscape Association, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The Newark Museum, Paper Mill Playhouse, the Princeton Opera Association, Princeton Simulations, Princeton ProMusica, The Princeton Triangle Club, Princeton University, Raritan Bay Medical Center, RiverView Medical Center, the Second Chance Film Festival, the Specialty Advertising Association of Greater New York, United Cerebral Palsy Association, U.S. Trust Company, Westminster Choir College, Rider University, Young Audiences of New Jersey and the YMCA.
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Mr. Levine has received awards and honors from Graphic Design: USA, The Art Directors Club of New Jersey, YMCA International and the New York Society of Association Executives. His designs have appeared in Communications Arts Magazine Illustration Annual 38, Print Magazine 1997 Regional Design Annual, and Graphic Design: USA 1997, 1998, 1999, 2006, 2007 Design Annuals.
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Howard Levine received a B.F.A. in Advertising Design from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts.
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