Elsy Mendez

Designing for the Disney Store - Girls Hardline Team. Including Animators' Collection Large and Small doll sets. New and existing Small Figure Sets, Feature Dolls and Feature Play Sets. All For Disney Store and Parks exclusives.

I specialize in making a wide range of handmade plush and soft goods products for retail.

Product Designer for Jakks Pacific feature plush, licensed brands and small dolls

- Designed play sets and Accessories for New Small Doll line
- Product Drafting for play sets
- Building, sculpting, and painting prototypes for Presentations and New Concept Approvals
- Sketching concepts for licensed plush lines.
- Brainstorming, Concepting, Sketching, Illustration

Lead designer on Jada's toy licences. Designing for Hello Kitty playsets, Disney Preschool RC toys, As well as accessories and play pieces for Cutie-Pops doll line.

Product Development including, Accessory design, color specs, and drafting for Lanard's Girls toys and products

Visual Graphics Coordinator in the Visual Department at Forever 21.
- Designed borders and trend collages for Heritage and Forever21 apparel concepts
- Photo editing for mannequin and store fixtures
- Formatted store directive weekly and for every floorset

Design Intern for the Summer of 2009.
- Photoshop rendering and 3D Modeling
- Assisted on building prototypes for videos and presentation.
- I worked on concepts for company presentation and JMP clients
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