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Experience and Education: download Resume [.pdf, english]
download Lebenslauf [.pdf, deutsch]
February 2008 – current
Senior Art Director
Sapient Interactive
art direction, creative concepts, pitches and design oversite of campaigns, applications development, portals and websites.
May 2005 – Jan 2008
Senior Manager Online Production
webmiles GmbH/arvato: a Bertelsman company
I leaded a team of up to 9 designers, producers and front-end programmers to
maintain and improve the companies multiple websites.
As part of the marketing team I helped develop new
tools to support both B2B and B2C product range.
June 2004 – May 2005 /
October 1996 – September 2000
Designer/Freelance
I worked on a project to project basis as designer and strategy consultant
in in Interactive, Graphic and Exhibition Design in Germany and USA.
October 2000 – May 2004
Senior Designer
Picture Projects Inc.
In this innovative design studio, I guided a team of artists and designers in the production of websites, interactive kiosks, and print work. Picture Projects is best known for its documentary approach and sensitivity to content. I worked with clients to develop appropriate information architecture and the overall look and feel of the projects. I guided the projects to their completion, and finished with overseeing final testing and launch.
October 1994 – July 2000
MFA in New Media
and Conceptual Design
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst/Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
News:
August 2007
clever-naschen.de relaunched. This project for Masterfoods discusses the topics health, food and education.
June 2006
webmiles.de relaunched. The project was developed and produced in-house.
April/May 2006
Thembi's
AIDS Diary airs on NPR and Thembi toured around the US to present
her story in various cities to the public. April 2005
The portfolio site for art director and production designer Shane Valentino goes online.
At webmiles I worked on projects for clients like:
Motorola,
Pilkington,
Pirelli,
Orange
citydisc.ch,
Masterfoods,
Schlecker
At Picture Projects I worked on projects for following clients:
Christie's Inc., Harvard University,
New York University,
Radcliffe Schlesinger Library,
Radio Diaries on NPR,
Tenement Museum New York,
University of California at Berkeley,
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates,
WNYC Freelance projects include:
BMW, adidas, SumoFilms, Radio Diaries on NPR, Urban Brush Fire, Gallery of Contemporary Arts Leipzig, The Opera Leipzig, The City Museum of Leipzig,
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research Berlin. Awards with Picture Projects include: SonicMemorial.org was the first online project to receive a Peabody Award . The site also received a Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT), an Online Journalism Award for Most Creative Use of the Medium, and a Round Table Award for Innovative Use of Archives. It was also the SXSW Web Awards Winner in the Audio/Radio category and was featured as Macromedia's Site of the Day. 360degrees.org was given the Online Journalism Award for Most Creative Use of the Medium, the Pew Center for Civic Journalism's Batten Award for Innovation, the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, a Webby Award for Net.art., a People's Choice Award at Macromedia UCON Conference and was a finalist in Flash Forward New York 2001. It also received the Medienkunstpreis, international\media\art\award and was Macromedia's Site of the Day.
Press & Recognition include: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, Surface Magazine, Wired News, Spiegel Online, NY1, ABC News, Cnet, Media Rights, The Brian Lehrer Show, Media That Matters Film Festival, Ars Electronica, The National Design Triennial, DesignNet Magazine, Metropolis Magazine, CommArts' Design Interact, N5M, Get Rid Of Yourself, Horizon Zero, DesignNET, netdiver.net, newstoday.com |
