Design should be experienced, not just seen.

The Day to Day:

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

BRANDING & STORY TELLING & VIDEO

PRINT & DIGITAL GRAPHICS

SPACE PLANNING

FF&E SELECTION | STYLING

SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGN & STRATEGY

Get with the Program:

THE CREATIVE SUITE: PHOTOSHOP | ILLUSTRATOR | INDESIGN | DABBLING IN AFTER EFFECTS

WORDPRESS | SQUARESPACE | TUMBLR

PINTEREST | INSTAGRAM

iMOVIE

All the Feels:

COLLABORATOR

TEAM LEADER

RELATIONSHIP BUILDER

DEADLINE ORIENTATED

OUTSIDE THE BOX THINKER

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (aka Virginia Tech) 2004 - Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design

Membership: ASID

Freelance Designer (present)

FERRISS AND COMPANY

  • Commercial Interior Design

  • Social Media Planning

  • Firm Rebranding Efforts

  • Event Styling

  • Home Staging

DESIGN AGENCY

  • Ongoing freelance designer: project by project basis

FRAY ARDENS PERFUME LINE:

  • Graphic Collage Art: web and social media use

  • Social Media Coordinator

  • Website content curator, built on Square Space

  • Pop-up Event Stylist

ETIENNE VINITAGE:

  • Logo Development

  • Product Stylist & Photography

  • Instagram Layout & Planning

ForrestPerkins (2008 - 2018) 

Director of Graphic Design and Special Projects

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN: Spear heading project kick-off meetings to inspire design teams to think outside the box. These meetings developed the conceptual visual and written story that will act as a foundation and check point for the design aesthetic. Lead an over arching series of firm wide story telling sessions.

BRANDING & STORY TELLING & VIDEO: Project Identity, Presentation Aesthetic, Corporate Clients. Lead the branding efforts for Dupont Residential Towers. Participated on the branding documentation teams for Waldorf Astoria, Embassy Suites and Double Tree Hotels.

2010 & 2018 Brand Standards for ForrestPerkins website, letterhead, email signatures, proposal and presentation formats.

Creation of videos to compliment screen presentations. These videos last 2-4 minutes and highlight the mood boards, infiltrated with lifestyle video and paired with music to capture the clients attention and get the firm’s foot in the door.

SPACE PLANNING: Collaborated with Design teams to development of project specific concepts and walked clients and through the firm's ideas of how the firm saw their project developing aesthetically and specially.

FF&E SELECTION | STYLING: Provide design teams with the look and feel of the intended space with sourced images of color, texture, and interior elements through visual (print, web and video) mood boards.

PRINT & DIGITAL GRAPHIC DESIGN:

  • Presentation - Creation of custom artwork and patterning to add dynamics to covers, divider and background pages of presentations and proposals. The project presentations set the mood and tied a thread throughout the design process. Hardcover books were designed for marketing materials as well as specialty clients.

  • Email Campaigns - Custom graphic art and layout for email blast announcements.

  • Website - Worked alongside a third party web developer to design the firm’s website, and maintained the backend of the site.

  • Info Graphics - Development of statistical graphics for trade show slide shows, branding documents and design competitions ranging from client demographics to location mapping.

  • Carpet - Working with the design team to develop vector graphic elements to relay the design intent to the carpet manufacturer. Original pattern designs include carpets for the following: Manchester Grand Hyatt; Hyatt Princeton; JW Marriott Tucson; Four Season Georgetown; Westin Bethesda; The Palmer House Hilton, Morrison Clark Hotel

  • Wallcoverings - Creating unique murals that act as accent walls and tie back to the underlining design story of the space.

  • Fabric - In-house designs for FP brand products, potential partnerships and project specific fabrics.

SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGN & STRATEGY: Curated ForrestPerkins’ Instagram account, planned out posts a month at a time and trained junior staff to take over.

Adamstein & Demetriou (2007-2008) 

Project Manager and Project Designer

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Management of previously designed lobby and ballroom renovation of the Hilton Times Square Hotel.

PROJECT DESIGNER: team member on multiple restaurant projects, drafting using PowerCad, and preparing photoshopped renderings of conceptual spaces.

Architecture Incorporated (2004-2007)

PROJECT DESIGNER: Interior finish selection and Architectural Desktop