Lissi Erwin Email & Phone Number

Philipstown, Ny, Us

New York, United States

Full time designer of YA/Middle Grade Fiction, Non-Fiction and Picture Books.

New York City Metropolitan Area

Full-Time Temporary Art Director filling in for Art Director on maternity leave, and then later as a freelance Art Director handling a list of books. Stepped in and seamlessly handled large list of children's picture books. Kept all projects on schedule. Managed illustrators and art directed covers and interiors. Worked closely with editorial staff and staff designers and attended weekly cover and production meetings. Worked closely with production to troubleshoot issues with printing on foils, diecuts, and other special effects. Designed, art directed, and recreated art in Adobe Illustrator for a major upcoming children's book.

Greater New York City Area

An independent design studio that has created graphics for large entertainment companies including Capitol Records and Simon and Schuster, independents such as Barbès Records and Process Media and small business/non-profits such as Two Boots Restaurant and Lambda Legal. Has art directed and designed a wide range of media with a focus on websites, books, and music packaging. Has also designed a variety of advertising, merchandise, identity, signage, branding and specialized letterpress and stationery projects. Splendid Corp. was formed under the principle of doing good work for good people. Since 2001, I've been honored to serve an array of great clients, helping them bring their unique + individual graphic presence to the world. I believe in quality design and social responsibility, encouraging printing on recycled and quality papers, using local vendors when possible, and taking the time to do it right.CLIENTS: The Punk Singer: The Kathleen Hanna Project, Mark Morris Dance Group, AOL Patch.com, The Beastie Boys, Feral House, Process Media, First Second, Barbés Records, St. Martin's Press, Random House, Simon and Schuster, Aria Multimedia Entertainment, The Wordz from The Street Project, Chicha Libre, Le Tigre, Monkey Business Literary Magazine, A Public Space, Greenlight Bookstore, Prema Yoga Brooklyn, The World Famous Pontani Sisters, Murray Hill, Purgatory Pie Press, Variety Shac, MODE-HQ, Michelle Amador, Angie Pontani, Green Apple Festival, Two Boots Restaurant and Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction.

Poughkeepsie, New York

Teaching undergraduate courses in Graphic Design at the School of Communication and the Arts. Courses include Digital Layout + Design, Graphic Design I: Typography + Design, and Graphic Design II: Publication + Design

Greater New York City Area

Worked in house designing teNeues Stationery Program and Catalog for the Spring 2018 line of stationery products including notecards, journals, and accessories. Solely responsible for design of entire stationery line of over 30 products. Handled production as well as interfaced directly with printers and vendors. Art directed and styled photo shoot for Stationery Catalog PDP pages.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for the implementation of graphics in independent documentary film. Planned video shoot incorporating graphic ephemera from Kathleen Hanna’s archive at the NYU Fales Library. Art-directed stop motion sequences and still photography of archival material to be integrated into the film. Storyboarded and art-directed titles and graphic sequences. Created opening title graphics, lower thirds, and end credit crawl. Art Directed, photographed, and animated Opening Band Films stop motion graphic. Designed promotional poster and flyer / zine for distribution at the 2013 World Premiere at SXSW.

Greater New York City Area

freelance cover and interior design for teen and middle grade novels

New York, Ny

Full-Time Temporary Art Director filling in for maternity leave. Stepped in and seamlessly handled large list including four seasons of middle grade children's books. Kept all projects on schedule. Managed illustrators and art directed covers. Designed books keeping in line with series guidelines, including popular series such as Nancy Drew Diaries, Hardy Boys Adventures, The Goddess Girls, Mermaid Tales, Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder, Felix Salten's Bambi books, and Heroes in Training. Worked closely with editorial staff and staff designers and attended weekly cover and production meetings. Directed illustration for upcoming picture book for young readers. Designed packing for multiple boxed sets. Worked closely with production to troubleshoot issues with printing on foils and other special effects.

New York, Ny

Freelance visual design for Patch.com neighborhood websites. Designed layered pages from wireframes for neighborhood specific website pages. Worked on integration of American Express “Shop Small” Campaign. Designed seasonal holiday shopping guide templates. Designed banner ads and email templates.

Freelance design of children's books.

Freelance book designer for Simon and Schuster's Children's Division, working on books for Simon Spotlight, Little Simon, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, Margaret K. McElderry Books, Atheneum, Aladdin and and topics ranging from Spongebob and Dora to Nancy Drew and the history of baseball. Experience in flap books, pop-up books, board books, novels, non-fiction, educational games, picture books and more. Book cover and interior design for early readers to young adults.

Art Director for the Green Apple Festival: America's Largest Earth Day CelebrationThis nationwide festival in 8 U.S. cities (Washington DC, New York, Miami, Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco) holds free outdoor concerts in landmark city parks. Green Apple mobilizes citizens to combat climate change through music & arts as well as "greening" schools through Earth Day Network.I served as Art Director creating the graphic presence of the festival and supervised its application across all print and web applications. This included the design of a web site, print advertisements in national and regional media, a style guide, posters, flyers, banners, scrims, web advertising, volunteer t-shirts, and a 48pp Festival Resource Guide. I also created many original illustrations that were used in the festival graphics across the 8 markets.

Graphic Designer for the children's imprints Grosset and Dunlap and PSS!. Designed novelty and educational books for all age groups from early readers to young adults. Designed covers and interiors for sticker books, easy pop-ups, nature field guides, 8x8 stories and more. Worked directly with illustrators and editors.