Helen Bentley

Collaborating with a team of behavioral economists (including leading behavioral economist Dan Ariely) to ideate, prototype, and design user interactions, wireframes, and visual designs for companies such as Google, Lending Club, and Wells Fargo. Designing Irrational Labs' brand identity elements (slide decks, workbooks, posters, flashcards, newsletter headers, etc.) for print and web.

A multi-disciplinary design studio offering services in architecture, interiors, furniture design, digital fabrication, product design, branding, and graphics.

The Embassy Network (www.embassynetwork.com) is an international network of co-living houses that focuses on supporting individuals whose work and passions are done in pursuit of the greater good. The Embassy SF is the specific co-living house in which I reside, and I am working together with my housemates/co-founders to create distinct but cohesive brand identities for the two entities. I'm also working on refining internal communications methods with visual content. Additionally, I am the resident event coordinator and for the past two+ years I have played a central role in housemate and guest selection, event experience design, planning and hosting, merging social and professional networks, and creating a welcoming and participatory/collaborative atmosphere.

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Designed cultural and higher education facilities, including SF MoMA, Marin Academy, the Aquarium of the Pacific expansion in Long Beach, UC Santa Cruz new Coastal Biology building, Pomona College Millikan and Andrew lab buildings, the Presidio Exchange, Presidio Gateways, and Oberoi International School, a 9-story urban campus in Mumbai. Also worked on various smaller scope corporate interiors projects. Additionally I was a representative of the Design Strategic Group which is responsible for perpetuating design dialogue, cultural exchange, and forward thinking within the firm.

Teaching Assistant for Design Studio 1, Interior Design & Interior Architecture program.

Developed a brand identity that communicated the distinct personality of their products and translated it across multiple mediums, including packaging, product catalogs, trade show exhibition structures, employee apparel, social media channels, and the company website. Lead 3 months of project visioning as the Creative Director for the transformation of their warehouse and fabrication space into a maker hub and designer community. Designed pitch deck, kickstarter campaign, seasonal product line, designed & prototyped various lifestyle products currently being sold, designed furniture for interiors clients, designed several prototypes for existing products to test/improve product fabrication methods, designed product packaging, catalog, graphic and web content, co-designed exhibition structure for POOL trade show, installed and ran booths at various trade and craft shows, designed various schematic options for company's first live/work space in the Dogpatch and assisted with interior remodeling, designed company's new fabrication and innovation hub in SOMA.

Wrote the script, created storyboards, score, and assisted with directing and editing for the Kickstarter campaign.

Worked on various hospitality, restaurant, educational & corporate dining environments for several high-profile clients. Responsibilities include researching and developing concepts/content for client presentations, sketching, diagramming, rendering, CAD, selecting FF&E, interacting with clients, contacting reps/manufacturers, scheduling rep presentations, restructuring/streamlining the sourcing of concept imagery/FF&E, administrative support, solely responsible for building materials library for San Francisco satellite office.

Designed UI, user flow and interactions for social event calendar iOS app

Worked primarily on convention center project in Design Development phase for leading global developer in the hospitality industry; worked on 14 other projects for several high profile clients, including corporate offices, retail, and hospitality environments.

Drafted floor and electrical plan on site, space planning and schematic design options for basement remodel

Space planning, selected furniture and finishes, and proposed budget for living and dining room remodel