Education
California Institute Of The Arts (CalArts) | Valencia,
CA | Degree Date, May 2010
Completed a Master of Arts in Aesthetics and Politics.
Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, Successful Coursework, 2006 -
2008.
Coursework included: Conversations on Media, Contemporary Political
Thought, as well as
Critical Discourse in the Arts, Advanced Graphic
Design, Typography, History and Theory.
• Design
Work published in ReadyMade magazine, Fall 2009.
• Presented
thesis, Gritty Glossy Google Gods, at the 2009 Fall Annual
Conference of the
Society for the History of Technology, the primary
professional society for technology historians.
• Design Work published in Canvas magazine, Fall 2008.
Savannah College Of Art And Design (SCAD) | Savannah, GA
| Degree Date, June 2006
Completed
a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design.
Recipient of Frances Larkin McCommon Portfolio
Scholarship.
Coursework included: Art and Design History,
Typography, Color Theory, Photography,
Pre-Production, Aesthetics,
and Contemporary American Politics.
Presented research paper, Signs of Empire: Rhetoric
In The Globalization Debate,
at the 2006
Mid-Winter
Conference for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communication.
Experience
Proficiency
Freelance Designer | 2009 - Present
Graphic Design for Commercial, Educational, and Non-Profit Clients:
Designed promotionals for the CalArts School of Critical Studies.
Created Logo and Web Design for Collary Jewelry, custom jewelry design from Los Angeles.
Currently donating graphic design services for the Benson Breast Cancer Foundation.
Ed Fella | Los Angeles, CA | Digital Projects
Coordinator, Summer 2008 - Summer 2009
Worked closely with Ed Fella, a highly regarded CalArts
Professor of Graphic Design.
Digitized his
design work, managed and uploaded 1,000+ images to edfella.com.
Rob
Walker, New York Times Magazine Columnist | Murketing.com Assistant,
Fall 2008
Assisted Rob Walker, weekly 'Consumed' columnist for The
New York Times Magazine;
An
interview of mine was published on his murketing.com.
Center
for the Study of Political Graphics | Los Angeles, CA | Archivist,
Summer 2008
Managed
physical and digital images for largest collection of Post-WWII
propaganda in U.S.
Plazm Magazine + Design Studio | Portland, OR | Designer
and Writer, Summer 2007
Designed, wrote, and researched for Issue #29 of Plazm
Magazine, the Pacific Northwest's
premier art, culture, and design
magazine.
Portland Alliance | Portland, OR | Design Consultant,
Summer 2007
Completely revamped design of this long-lived community
newspaper with city-wide distribution.
To capture a younger
audience, developed new template and taught the newspaper's designer
to
reproduce specifications for repeated use.
Lark Books | Asheville,
NC | Art Department Design Intern, Summer 2005
Worked in art department on design and
pre-production for one of the world's largest publishers
of arts and
crafts books. Assisted on noted publications Artful Paper Dolls, The New Paper Quilling,
Building Storage with Style, and 500 Pitchers.
Adobe Acrobat,
Bridge, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop; QuarkXPress;
Microsoft Excel;
Hand-Coding of CSS; HTML; JavaScript; jQuery; KML
for Google Earth.