EXPERIENCE

Know Your Meme
Designer
NYC
2009-2011

Designed editorial information graphics, user interface elements, and merchandise. Also regularly assisted in research and community management.

Rocketboom
Designer
NYC
2009-2011

Designed graphics and branding for various web and video based properties. Latest projects included brand identity for Rocketboom NYC, site design for Humanwire, YouTube graphics for each show, and Twitter page designs for Rocketboom Daily, NYC, and Network accounts.

Freelance Design
2008-2011
Clients include:

Cheezburger Network
The American Museum of Natural History
Cardinal Spirits
Red’s Hot Dogs
Slacktory

SKILLS

Digital Media

Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Bridge, Flash, and AfterEffects.

HTML, CSS, and web design.

Familiar with digital painting and illustration, as well as photo retouching and manipulation.

Other programs include: Google SketchUp, Quark XPress, Final Cut Express, and Microsoft Office.

Traditional Media

Painting: oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, digital, UV/blacklight

Drawing: graphite, ink (pen, brush, washes), colored pencil

Pop-Up Paper Engineering

Screenprinting: Papercut, photo emulsion, CMYK process

Digital and film SLRs, digital photo retouching, black and white film development and printing.

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute
BFA Communications Design
2010

Graduated with honors and a departmental award for outstanding merit. Studied with an emphasis on illustration, supplemented with graphic design and animation.

Selected to represent the Institute at the Pratt Show, Accepted Students Day, and an art director review at the Society of Illustrators.

PUBLICATIONS

Fan the Fire Magazine
Volume 35, September 2010

American Illustration
Volume 29, 2010

Sift Journal
Volume 1, 2010