Hannah Shaffer

Concept design, development, and presentation design for commercial displays and installations. Assisted in project management and art direction.

Working on organizing and updating data for the materials archive, researching new sustainable materials, reaching out to manufacturers, designing graphics and presentation systems to display the archives' information and updating and maintaining the CSDS and Pratt Incubator websites.

Worked on a collaborative research project with the Center for Sustainable Design Studies to determine the environmental impacts of local versus non-local food ingredient sourcing. Collected data from articles, journals, and companies on the production and distribution of sugar and butter, determined shipping routes and distance travelled from production to final distribution, and utilized Quantis software to develop conclusions about environmental impact.

Worked on curating and facilitating five exhibitions at the DeKalb Market. The exhibitions differed from representing individual retailers and designers to executing exhibitions and interactive exhibitions. My responsibilities included familiarizing myself with the respective projects and product lines, promoting the businesses that were showing through conversations with journalists and bloggers, performing sales transactions via the Square App, and being friendly, personable and informative. This particular position was a great experience and attributed greatly to developing my networking and social media skills.

Assisted a client in developing a new fishing tackle box concept. Created market research boards, translating the clients ideas into concept sketches, and developed a series of presentation to communicate the product concept to prospective investors.