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New York, NY, US

New York, New York, United States

Creates original artwork, graphics, and prints aligned with seasonal fashion trends and design direction in using excellent color and print sensibility with an eye for composition and color balance for customers including Target. Balances creativity with commercial viability, reacting to selling information and capitalizing on white space opportunities to.

New York, United States

Creates original artwork, graphics, and prints aligned with seasonal fashion trends and design direction in using excellent color and print sensibility with an eye for composition and color balance for customers including Target. Balances creativity with commercial viability, reacting to selling information and capitalizing on white space opportunities to.

Greater New York City Area

Designed on-trend, original fashion repeat patterns, graphics, and engineered prints with a 70% of adoption rate each season for order placement and final bulk production.Communicated with production partners to ensure successful art and color execution in strike-off stage, managing the physical and digital color library of color standards.Color matched.

NANU Studio is an illustration and design studio dedicated to making vibrant, compelling illustrations and paper products. We specialize in greeting cards.Responsible for all creative services, including: editorial, book, packaging, & lifestyle illustration, surface pattern design, graphic facilitation & ideation, & mural design. Conduct business duties.

Englewood, NJ

Developed and implemented lesson plans and teacher training guides for the digital design teen and adult programs. Projects were based in Photoshop and Illustrator with the purpose to teach students specific skills and tools within the software as well as the fundamentals of design and illustration concepts.Taught students graphic design and illustration.

• Taught students Life Drawing and Applications & Industry via online intensive, 5-week courses.
• Mentored students to learn the fundamentals of figure drawing from portraiture to full-body portraits, as well as how to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Cranford, NJ

• Taught an introductory drawing class to freshman and sophomore year students focusing on the following drawing principles: line, form, value, texture, perspective, and human figure.
• Responsible for creating and adhering to the curriculum, while guiding students to develop their techniques and observational skills.

Jersey City, NJ

Collaborated with Director and Program Coordinator to create marketing materials such as fliers, brochures, banners, collateral design, and sponsor-packets for city-sponsored events such as Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST) and Jersey City Library’s Annual Book Festival. Assisted with on-site production and set-up of JCAST’s flagship location.

New York, New York

Created repeat floral repeat patterns with a focus on watercolor and graphic aesthetics for girls' apparel ages infant to 8-years. Designs developed for in-house brands Penelope Mack and Penny M for accounts such as Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, and Ross.

New York

Designed repeat patterns for men’s and women’s sleep and lounge wear, researched trends, created colorway pattern layouts, prepared files for presentations, collaborated with merchandiser and senior designer to generate pattern themes and collections. Accounts included Lord & Taylor, Kohl’s, Jockey, Sears, and Shopko.

New York, New York

Collaborated with garment designers to create trend-on prints, engineered prints, and repeat patterns with licensed characters for women’s sleep and loungewear. Developed designs using characters from Warner Bros., Disney, Nickelodeon, DC Comics, and Marvel. Accounts included Walmart, Target, KMart, Torrid, Sears, and JCPenny.

A Y&R was Young & Rubicam's office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I created illustrations and marketing materials for Tanzania Breweries Limited, Tanzania Distilleries Limited, Southern Sun Hotel, and Tanzania Cigarette Company. Projects included designing annual report covers, beer bottle labels, advertising signage, and logo redesigns.

Designed website icons, business cards, and flyers, prepared art for printing

Mfa, Illustration

• Teacher's Assistant for Editorial Illustration • Intern at the SCAD Library's Special Archives

Continuing Education

Bachelor Of Arts, Studio Art And Art History

• Major: Studio Art • Minor: Art History • Women's Ultimate Frisbee Club, co-captain '05-'06, treasurer '07-'08

Art

I attended Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in the spring of 2007 for my study abroad semester. I took various art classes such as.