Resumé

Jenni L. Calo

PERSONAL STATEMENT
Extremely creative individual with a passion for imagery and design. I am highly motivated, with excellent organizational skills, very punctual, a hard working individual who is a great team player with great communication skills.

EXPERIENCE
•Crafts Americana Group (Connecting Threads) (PDX) - Textile Designer /Photo Director & Sylist - 02/10 - Current
•Freelance Graphic Artist - Concurrent
•Ariela Alpha Intl. (NYC) - Senior Cad Artist - 09/05 - 09/09
•Carole Hochman (NYC) - Designer/Cad Artist (Jockey Retail) - 02/05 - 09/05
•NAP Intimates (NYC) - Designer (Victoria’s Secret Catalog Division) - 10/99 - 02/05
•The Limited Inc. - Lerners (NYC) - Temp as Assist. Product Coordinator - 07/99 - 09/99
•Freelance Design for Talbots and Federated - 01/04 - 12/04

EDUCATION
•Art Institute International, Portland, OR 09/95 -12/99
•Bachelors Degree in Fashion/Apparel Design
•Academy of Art, San Francisco, CA - Fashion Illustration 01/92 - 06/92

DESIGN SKILLS
•Create print collections for online/catalog business. Primarily for home sewers and quilters.
•Direct and style photo shoots for each collection.
•Create screen prints, embroideries, accessories, logos, packaging design, flat sketches, create Line Sheets
•Work closely with designers/merchandisers to brainstorm and execute print directions and themes
•Prepare artwork for overseas factories.
•Research trends & inspiration
•Create brush, distress, technique libraries for easy use for artists
•Attend print shows and trend forecasts
•Illustration, Sewing/Construction, Draping, Pattermaking
•Japanese Textile Techniques: Tsustugaki & Katezome

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
•Began branding myself through my fabric collections.
•Promoted to Senior Cad Artist for being involved in all aspects of the job and taking the lead at being proactive and setting up the foundations for benchmarking and best practices. (Ariela Alpha Intl.)
•Organized fashion show (Art Institute)
•Sent to Turkey office to oversee Development (NAP Intimates),
•Sent to Paris to attend the Premier Vision and Leon for Interfiliere trade shows for market research (NAP Intimates)
•Scholarship for the Concord Unity Foundation,
•1995 Bank of America Award for Art, Academic Letter in Art

COMPUTERS
•Adobe Illustrator CS5, Photoshop, NED Graphics, Plaidmaker, Indesign, MS Word, MS Excel. Mac & PC, AutoCad,
•Responsible for maintaining printer, color calibrating standards to printer

Projects by Jenni Calo

Fabrics designed for Connecting Threads
91 Files

Art Direction for Connecting Threads
83 Files

Prints/Patterns
22 Files

Print Design
7 Files

Flat Sketches
4 Files

Logos
2 Files

Published in Pattern People Ebook
5 Files

My Embroidery Designs
3 Files