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Christine Facella

Brooklyn, NY
beetleandflor.com
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  • About

    Experienced illustrator and designer with a BFA in product design from Parsons.

  • Education
    • Certificate Horticulture
      Brooklyn Botanical Garden
      2010 - 2011
    • Coursework International relations
      The New School for Social Research
      2008 - 2009
    • BFA Product Design, concentration in animation and photography
      Parsons The New School for Design
      1999 - 2004
    • Coursework Natural Sciences
      Fordham University
      2002 - 2003
  • Experience
    • Berkshire Bird Paradise Calendar Project
      Ran collaborative project with 6 artists, who contributed artwork for a calendar aimed to raise funds for 'Berkshire Bird Paradise' in New York. The calendar was made with handmade recycled paper from the 'Green Shop' in Northern India, who train and employ recent Tibetan refugees in the art of papermaking. Ghar Sita Mutu: Branding and soft-product development for the orphanage/job development program, run by Beverly Bronson, in Kathmandu, Nepal
    • Anthropologie
      Designed decorative products specifically ceramics and glassware for Martha's Macy's and JC Penney lines. Designed patterns for home textiles and serve-ware. Current work in department stores.
    • Robert Allen
      JC Penney
      Design new textile prints re-coloring and color matching creating repeats using Illustrator and Photoshop. Design comforters shams decorative pillows and window treatments. Create bedmaps of new designs for brands such as, Echo and Natori. Design concepts for bath accessories. Generate presentation/ idea boards for use in client meetings. Create new trim brushes, window templates and technical specs.
    • Kokonor
      Stewart, NY
      Branding, marketing and design of soft goods. Kokonor train and employ Tibetan refugees in Northern India in tailoring, and provide funding services for the education of the employee's children. Design Consultant: Bedding and Home Goods Martha
    • Angus McDonald Fund-'Mobile Hospice Asia'. Consulting
      branding, marketing and visual documentation of NGO, which aims to bring medical and spiritual relief to end of life patients in poor pockets of South East Asia.
    • Founder
      Brooklyn based design studio
      specializing in unique ceramic sculptures and goods for the home. Goods are retailed in the US Asia and Australia. Brooklyn based design studio
    • JLA Home
      Submission of work for potential Beetle & Flor + Anthropologie collaboration.
    • Smithsonian Institution
      Swan, NY
      Concept drawings for new science labs. Clayspace 1205, NY, 2010 Branding of communal ceramic arts space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Black
    • Laughing Willow Company
      Porcelain ballerina sculpture for the film 'Black Swan'.
    • Reverb Productions
      Branding and film graphics for the film "For the Next 7 Generations" including film poster postcard digital press kit and dvd cover.
    • West
      Elm, NY
      Submission of work for potential Beetle & Flor + West Elm collaboration. Kokonor, India, 2008 Develop Tibetan inspired soft goods and accessories, company branding and packaging. Direct tailors in product execution. Seek out and employ new sustainable textile, printing and paper vendors in Delhi and the Himachal Province, India, including local and specialized businesses such as the Green Shop- a community initiative focusing on paper collection, recycling and paper-making. Direct, review and approve color submissions from vendors and printers. Attend/manage print runs of materials to ensure accurate execution at production centers. Norbulingka Institute, India, 2007 Collaborate with Tibetan artisans and students, in designing Tibetan inspired products, packaging and accessories to be sold at local boutiques. Address sustainability issues by focusing on the use of overstocked and waste materials. Track, follow up and approve of all prototypes. Design Consultant: Visual Merchandising Origins, NY, 2011, 2013 Visual Merchandising and Graphics
    • Natalia Leite. Branding of Reverb Productions.
      Press kit business cards and postcard for the short film Dash by American Musuem of Natural History
    • Visual Merchandising and Graphics
      Studio Bevan
      Co-designed merchandising units to be implemented in the field. Develop and update planograms for clients such as Clinique and La Mer. Create pre-press mechanicals for lightboxes and collateral.
    • Visual Merchandising and Graphics
      Aveda
      Addressed sustainability issues by designing flexible and multi-functional and multi-seasonal tray inserts/makeup units using materials such as RPET. Conceived, designed and implemented window displays and layout. Design collateral elements for use in window displays, product launches and Aveda events. Work with vm director in designing marketing events. Co-created a new merchandising guidebook for international distribution. Train and manage new vm freelancers. Training of new full-time vm staff. Graphics, Illustration and Print Dharamsala Film Festival, INDIA, 2012 Branding of the film festival.
    • Vertebrate Paleontology
      Exhibition department model maker for the exhibit "Ancient Fossils New Discoveries". Create scientifically accurate models of prehistoric plants using techniques such as vacuum-forming and mold making rubber and plaster. Translate photographs into 2d vector illustrations. Reconstruct specimens in vector lines or tonal illustrations using hand rendering and photoshop. Illustrations and photographs represented in several publications including: Gaffney, E. S., Tong, H., & Meylan, P. A. (2006) Evolution of the side-necked turtles : the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, no. 300
  • Awards

    Chosen artist for new CSA+D concept.

    Personal work sold in boutiques in the Americas, Europe and Australia.

  • Skills
    • Graphic Design
    • Illustration
    • Industrial Design
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