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Shannon Bryant-Hankes '84
Specialist III, Communication & Marketing
Creative Director, Auburn Magazine
334-844-1442 | shannonbryanthankes@auburn.edu

Job Duties
Manages design concepts and production for Auburn Magazine. Also manages the communications department which operates as an in-house graphic design agency supporting the Office of Alumni Affairs. Our work includes programs and services, advertising and design needs from concepting complete marketing campaigns, i.e. brochures, postcards, posters to overseeing the Alumni Affairs website and electronic communications. Supervises and mentors communications staff comprised of Auburn Magazine art director, web manager, interns and student designers. Also oversees the department budget.

Hometown
Mobile, Alabama

Education
BFA in Visual Arts, 1984 from Auburn University

Career
Other than working with Alumni Affairs and Auburn Magazine my design career has spanned from healthcare to high tech, industrial corporations to museums, and from packaging to electronic web design.

Family
Husband, AU Graduate Dr. Doug Hankes '85, and teenage son Keegan

Hobbies/Interests
meeting fellow artists, gallery hopping, bird watching, working on hand-built clay sculptures, gardening, sustainability, and traveling to the Southwest

Favorite movies
True Stories, Inconvenient Truth, For Your Consideration, Amelie, Waiting for Guffman, Planet Earth

Movies to see
Beautiful Losers

Recent Books
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998, How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman, 79 Short Essays on Design by Michael Bierut