ElizaBeth Renee Houston is a multi-talented artist combining her love of photography, design, and illustration into a fresh, whimsical aesthetic with a vintage twist. Her style can best be described as "simple, playful, and eye catching." She started her Graphic Design career in 2003 working for two major print publications in Florida doing layout and ad design. She then worked for a printing company which expanded her knowledge of screen printing, spot color and large-format printing. But her true love is the internet! Elizabeth is an expert in Web Design, Social Media and Web Content Management.

Presently, she works for HarperCollins Children's Publishing as a Graphic Web Designer in the Children's and Teens Digital division. She successfully creates and produces functional websites, splash pages, social media, newsletters, e-blasts, advertising for iPad, iPhone, and iPod apps, and print promotional materials for the entire marketing department.

From 2010-11 she was employed as a Web Producer for Random House Children's Books designing mobile sites, email blasts and web banners. She also successfully produced multiple websites, wrote marketing copy for ads and social media campaigns in the Children's and Teens division of New Media Marketing.

Elizabeth had the privilege of having her award winning condom wrapper design "ONE Man Army" produced by ONE Condoms in 2008 which they featured in their new Army of ONE Marketing Campaign. ONE Condoms are sold nationally at CVS Pharmacies, Target, and worldwide on their website.

Upon arrival in New York City in 2008, she worked with a variety of companies as a Freelance Graphic Designer and Web Production Artist: The Deal Magazine, L'Oreal Redken, Auction Central News, and Kate Spade New York. Her responsibilities included: magazine page layout, promotional and ad designs, creating a look book, producing an online news publication, html coding, and photo manipulation.

She then branched out into a new field, adding Copy Editing to her repertoire. In 2009, her talents were affirmed when asked by the published author, Maya Contreras, to edit her memoir, The Him Book: One Woman's Almost Religious Search to Find The One; her novella, Eight Weeks of Bruce; and her play entitled, Nervous Breakdown: The Musical, which received an honorable mention at The Fringe Festival in New York City. Maya Contreras is now the Editor-in-Chief of the DirtyDurty Diary Magazine in which Elizabeth participated in being Web Content Manager for the website's launch, Web Contributer, and one of the final Proofreaders for the inaugural Issue One in Fall 2010.

Elizabeth also edited a manuscript by Luc Carl entitled, The Drunk Diet — a memoir about his journey to lose 40 pounds. Luc Carl has recently been featured in magazines, web, and radio as a NYC personality and is associated with Lady Gaga. His manuscript is now being published by St. Martin's Press.

In 2010, Elizabeth had the honor of being the Photo Assistant to the legendary George Pitts at a photo shoot for his new Taschen book, Mature Women, and she has also assisted Alessandro Zuek Simonetti on location for the DDD Magazine.

Her love of photography is evident when looking at her Photo Portfolio. Reality and fantasy are a blended nuance as she balances the beauty of nature and candid NYC life.

Miss Houston is also a Writer and Musician. She wrote an Art Review for Auction Central News, and a children's book which she is now in the process of illustrating.

She also writes a blog about her life in New York City called NYC and ME.

Listen to her music on Reverb Nation and on YouTube.

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