"IT'S ALL AN ADVENTURE"
When LAX expansion swallowed my earliest home in fourth grade, my family moved to a suburban area of LA with garbonzo bean fields, "wild" horses, old caves, and rattlesnakes. In that environment I ran with a posse of three other girls who shaped my sense of adventure and defined friendship bonds for me. That sense of adventure, still sometimes trumping common sense, has led me to travel widely including stints living in Tennessee, Oregon, and, briefly, Hong Kong. Yet, I have come back to Los Angeles. And I love the crazy quilt that is LA. When not tethered to my computer, I can be found traveling in North America and overseas several times a year—following art, changes of seasons, friendships, and (after many years of living with dogs, cats, horses, and children) visiting all of these now at other people's houses.
Two decades in independent schools taught me to navigate the workings of school communities. I have taught journalism, graphic design, and motion graphics, and worked as an in-house designer. I bring both editorial and design skills to publications. I can help clients differentiate when to show and when to tell. The goal of this cooperative process is to create editorially-smart, beautifully-designed, individually-crafted publications that entice and delight readers.
SELECTED RESUME
1993–present
Freelance Graphic Designer
1989–2011
Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences
Graphic Design and Motion Graphics Teacher
Journalism Teacher
Publications Department Chair
In-house Graphic Designer
Director of Technology (1990–1999)
2007–2012
The Haw Par Mansion Project
The Hubao Villa Project
Co-Project Manager and Grant Writer (with Judith Brandel) for The Aw Boon Haw Foundation, researching and developing proposals to make properties in Hong Kong and rural Fujian, China into cultural landmarks
2009
Peter Norton Christmas Card
Each year, art collector Peter Norton commissions a contemporary artist to design his Christmas card
2001
“Stop Requested”
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority buses public art grant (in collaboration with Alex Donis)
2001
“Moveable Morality”
Invited artist to group show: “Rapid Response, LA artists respond to 9/11”
1998
“Tiger Balm Gardens, A Chinese Billionaire’s Fantasy Environments”
book commissioned by Sally Aw (co-authored with Judith Brandel)
1987–1994
UCLA Extension
Teaching and Lab Assistant in Computer Graphics Program
SELECTED CLIENTS
Brentwood School, Brentwood
Crossroads School, Santa Monica
Village School, Pacific Palisades
Pilgrim School, Los Angeles
Trinity School, Menlo Park
Elizabeth Mandell Music Institute
Sam Francis Gallery
The Aw Boon Haw Foundation
P.S. Science
The Weaver Group
Zelda Zinn
Kate Savage
Alex Donis
Pam Posey
Joan C. Martin
Accomplish the Dream Foundation