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Jules Sherman
Palo Alto, CA
Mobile: 805-705-9433
e-mail: jules@julessherman.com
URL: www.julessherman.com
www.yosifapenina.com


Education:

2010-2012
Stanford University
MFA, Joint Program In Design

1994 Rhode Island School of Design
BFA, Industrial Design
Awarded the Alexander Graham Bell Award
For Excellence in Design and invention, presented by the faculty of the Industrial Design Department.

1993 ENSCI/LES ATELIERS
(French National Institute for Advanced Studies in Design) Selected by RISD Industrial Design Faculty to study design in Paris, France.

2000 College of Marin
Multimedia production courses.

2009 Solidworks Courses- GoEngineer
Woodland Hills, CA

2009 Solidworks Advanced Course- Digital Dimensions
San Diego, CA

Clients/Experience:

Olde Thompson
Oxnard, CA (F/T)
Director, Product Design and Development
House-wares/package design for big-box retailers and grocers
such as Costco, Wal-Mart,Target, Macys, Martha Stewart Home, Olde Thompson brand, BJs, & Lowes.
•Hard-good design such as spice racks, salt and pepper grinders, pantry-ware, food packaging (spices) jar design, box design, label design, web-design, catalog design, marketing collateral, project management, leadership and client presentations.
2003-present

Yosifa-Penina/Yosi-girls
•Women & girls hair accessories and travel accessory design
(My own business) Products sold through ebags.com, flight 001,
and various boutiques in the US and abroad.
2005-present

Newell-Rubbermaid
Baltimore, Maryland
•Bathroom fixtures and hardware for Amerock
•Hardware for kitchen cabinets and juvenile hardware (little girls knobs/pulls) Freelance/Contract

Char-broil
Columbus, GA
•Outdoor fireplace
design for Target-Freelance

RVB (Riviera-Van Beers) San Francisco, CA
•Kitchen Products for Safeway
•Bath Accessories for Walmart (P/T-perm)

Robinson Knife
Buffalo, NY
•Freelance designer for plastic kitchen house-wares 2003

Limited Brands
Reynoldsburg, Ohio
F/T Senior Product Designer 2001-2002
White Barn Candle Co.
•Product & Package Design

Neiman Marcus Direct
Irving, TX
•Design and manufacture of Christmas Decor items for NM Home and Horchow catalogs under the Eighty-Acres name (a company I started with a business partner) Products were designed at our US headquarters and
imported from China.

Restoration Hardware
(contract designer 2000-2001)
Corte Madera, California
• Home Accessories
•Garden Accessories

Majorie Baer Accessories
Senior Designer (F/T) 1998-2000
•Jewelry Box Design
•Costume Jewelry

BOSCA
Springfield, Ohio
• Ladies leather handbag design
(Freelance)

Forms +Surfaces
Santa Barbara, California
www.forms-surfaces.com
• Door handle design (Freelance)

Cambridge Silversmiths
New York
•Flatware design (Freelance)

Parisi Interior Design (F/T)
Del Mar, California
Designer 1995-1997
•Custom furniture design for private clients and
model homes.
•Sculpture design
•Custom Built-In Designs


•References can be found here:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/julessherman