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Email: dougmumm@csites2k.com
Voice Mail: 734.422.3500


Background:
In the early 1900s my grandfather, Carl J. Mumm, started a print shop with his brother just outside of Chicago. As the company evolved, they began publishing a weekly newspaper that serviced the outlying districts of the city.

My father, Floyd A. Mumm, worked with his father and learned all the aspects of printing and publishing, with a special focus on type design. After World War I, Carl split with his brother, moved his family to Michigan and started the Mumm Printing Co. in Detroit.

Childhood:
Both my father and my mother (Doris Ruth Mumm), worked at the print shop which was located for many years on the corner of West Chicago and Livernois. I spent much of my childhood growing up around the presses... the smell of type wash and paper bring back memories. I used to make up little songs to go with the rhythmic sounds of the Heildelburgs as these great mechanical marvels made individual impressions on each piece of paper.

I was taught to set hot type and run the proofing press and the old letter press by the time I was ten years old. When they bought the Ludlow machine (pulling brass molds of type into a special composting stick and then injecting molten lead so the type was created on it's own slug) I set type on that as well.

There was a great revolution in the printing and publishing industry that really started to take hold when I was a young teenager... cold type and offset printing. No more dealing with lead and setting type individually. My father was at the forefront, and by the time I entered high school he had started a commercial art typesetting studio where everything was created photographically. Intended to be a source for primarily for printing companies, he named it "Pica Studio".

I, of course, was at his side, and became proficient at the craft. My high school years were the late sixties, and like the rest of my peers, I was swept up in the political and cultural changes that were afoot. I published and produced a city-wide underground monthly newspaper (with cohorts Al Lewis and David Epskamp).

The Work-A-Day World:
I continued working at Pica Studio until I was about 23. I worked and programmed one of the early typesetting computers, the IBM MT/ST. I also began working on the first Compugraphic phototype computers, the ACM 9000 (Area Composition Machine... this one used paper punched tape for saving data).

Wanting to spread my wings, I applied for, and was offered a position at Yaffe, Stone & August, a large Detroit Advertising Agency, but the lure of Rock and Roll was too great, and I accepted a job as Associate Art Director for the Birmingham based Creem Magazine.

I moved into a house with Lester Bangs and a few of the other editors/writer and had a room down the hall from Lester. Funny thing... we didn't talk music as much as we talked literature. I was heavily into Sartre, Camus, Nietize and the other existentialists of their day... Lester turned me on to Celine and, a contemporary, Charles Bukowski.

While at Creem, under the auspices of the Art Director, Charles Auringer, I began to develop my photographic skills. While I had grown up using camera, it was here that I really learned my way around a darkroom and an f-stop. Charlie was an excellent photographer and Art Director.

1974 - 1976 Associate Art Director, Creem Magazine
Responsibilities included: Monthly design and production of 80+ four-color national magazine. Keylining and managing the typesetting department. Was chief liaison between the editorial and art department, and organized deadlines and worked closely with writers and editors and space and time constraints. Designed and produced space ads and some photo journalism.

The pace (and lifestyle) at Creem was wild, sometimes staying awake for days putting the issue to bed... deadlines were taken very seriously (as they should be). But I was putting some major stress on my body, so I resigned in 1976 and traveled the country during the bicentennial year.

I returned and spent about 8 months at A.C. Trost & Associates, a small local agency, before returning to Pica Studio.

I spent the next 15 years running the business, and developed skills in all areas... from design and layout, managing a staff of 7, to client contact and all the little things that come with running your own business.

We produced much local work, but also had some fairly big clients like General Motors, 20th Century Fox and Embassy Home Entertainment. Our business philosophy was fairly simple: always give the client more than they pay for. I hold to that philosophy still.

My love for publishing continued, and, for a while in the late 70's, I moved into an art colony in Detroit. There, with old friends Kurt Nimmo, Ken Bertoli, Don Sielaff, Dean Creighton and others, published an art, poetry, literature and criticism magazine. It achieved wide acclaim and received grant monies from the National Endowment For The Arts for consecutive years.

After working and growing the business, by the late 80's I decided it was time to settle down and start a family. I met my future wife Kathryn, at a Chamber of Commerce meeting and after a whirlwind courtship we married. We have two sons, Erik Floyd (born in 1990) and Zackary Marc (born in 1992). Both currently attend a special school for the Gifted.

1977 - 1993 Pica Studio, Livonia, MI
Art Director and Account Executive. Responsibilities included all facets of the business. Design, layout and concept development. Production of print ready artwork. Met and worked with clients to provide quality pieces that fit within budgeted frameworks. Managed staff of seven and scheduled deadlines to meet obligations.

By 1993 the business climate had changed considerably and a second great revolution was taking place... the personal computer had begun to alter the landscape of printing and publishing. Pica Studio was downsized considerably and I left in order to experiment with the new technology.

I worked about just under a year at Scott Publications in Livonia. While they produced the majority of their magazines on computers, they were woefully behind in technology. I helped upgrade the art department and helped with the conversion process of changing to scanner and imagesetting technology from traditional methods.

1993-1994 Art Director. Scott Publications, Livonia, MI
Responsibilities included design and production of promotional pieces as well as one of the monthly publications, Ceramic Arts and Crafts. Oversaw the installation of the company's first imagesetter and worked with creative staff to implement output of files. Instrumental in the migration to scanner technology from traditional negative stripins and helped with training of creative staff in software upgrades.

During that time, while at home I started to connect to the internet. Email was accomplished by typing in Unix commands. It was similar to the old BBS's which I had been on and off of for ten years, but much, much bigger. The web hadn't really come into it's own yet... the only web browser was something called Mosaic.

I resigned Scott and pursued free lance work full time. This gave me the opportunity to explore and develop a skill set on the new world wide web. I taught myself html using notepad and continued to stay current with new developments and new software.

Then, in 1996 while on a routine call for new freelance accounts, I happened to stop in Meer Dental in Canton, MI. The Marketing Director, Tedd Handelsman, noticed that I had a web site and offered me a position as webmaster.

As the position evolved over the next two years, the position itself evolved as well. I developed the website, but I was utilized for print, programming, training, even client contact. I enjoyed the diversity and the challenges that were presented. I was valued for my problem-solving ability and my resourcefulness. When asked by friends and family what I did there, I would respond: "Everything I know how to do, and everything I can learn how to do."

1996-1998 Webmaster, Meer Dental, Canton, MI
Responsibilities included design and development of the Meer Dental Website. Worked with consulting ASP developers on architecture and functionality. The ecommerce portion when from $0. when I started to $300,000.00 a month while under my management. Design, development and maintenance of company IntraNet. Developed scripting code for automatic import of information from the main database to Quark for catalogs of products. Project manager of Meer Online Services. Developed client websites and helped with support when necessary. General all around computer and graphics person.

In 1998 Meer Dental was bought out by a large multinational Corporation, Henry Schein, Inc. I stayed on for a year, developing the ArubaWeb ecommerce site and some smaller internet projects. I worked closely with Bob Lamb, the Director of IT, on the look, feel and architecture of ArubaWeb and the Caligor site.

The frequent flights to New York were beginning to wear on my family however, so I left the Schein Corporation, albeit reluctantly, to pursue some independent design and development projects.

1998-1999 Web Development. Henry Schein Corp.
Worked closely with Director of IT on the look, feel and architecture of ArubaWeb, the ecommerce portion of their website. Generated all graphics and html for the site. Design, development and architecture for the Caligor site (medical supplies). Generated other internet graphics and html code for misc. projects as they came up.

Currently, I'm with The Better Health Stores, a chain of health food and vitamin outlets. As a smaller operation I'm required to wear a variety of hats... I'm the webmaster, creative director and marketing director all rolled into one.

In addition to Freelance work I am currently a member of the part time faculty at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan. I teach evening and weekend classes in Multimedia and Design.