Daniel Dejan is the North American ETC Print & Creative Manager for Sappi Fine Paper. In this position Mr. Dejan provides value-added marketing, sales and technical consultation as well as internal (in-house) and external (end-user customer) training and education for the print, paper and creative communities. In his ten-year tenure with Sappi Mr. Dejan has held the positions of National Creative Sales Manager, Regional Specification Manager for the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Southern regions.
Mr. Dejan has extensive experience as an award-winning graphic designer, art/creative director, production manager and print buyer. A dedicated graphics arts educator, author and consultant with many years of national and international experience; over the past twenty years he has applied his expertise by providing key-note speeches, seminars and workshops for numerous chapters of the AIGA, Printing Industries of America, IDEAlliance and the SPECTRUM Conference- which he co-chaired in 2007, IPA, Print Production Clubs, Art Directors Club, Print Oasis as well as paper merchants, printers and corporations throughout the graphic arts community.
Mr. Dejan has written numerous articles for graphic arts trade publications such as IPA Journal, Paper Specs, Communication Arts, Pre-, Production and Publishing Executive, Signature, Magazine Design and Production magazines and has been contributing editor for Step-By-Step Graphics Magazine since its premier issue. He was the technical consultant and authored numerous chapters and the glossary for the Designer's Guide to Print Production.
He has also judged many graphic design and print competitions as well as conducted workshops, lectures, and delivered key-note speeches for design and production groups throughout the United States. Mr. Dejan has sat on numerous Board of Directors including ADEPT (Association for the Development of Electronic Publishing Techniques)/National and the Gilbert Paper's Design Advisory Council.
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