Tanya Marriott
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About
Tanya Marriott is multidisciplinary designer who works in a variety of media including interactive design and play, character and toy design, experience design and animation. Her work seeks to build meaningful experiences and storytelling opportunities between digital and tangible activities.
She in an internationally recognised figurative sculptor in the area of doll and toy design, and is the President Emeritus of the National Institute of American Doll Artists and an alumna of the Pictoplasma academy.
Tanya teaches concept design, toy, play and game design, animation and illustration, and is program coordinator for the Weta Workshop School at Massey University. Tanya has just started her PhD “Wild Play” An exploration in character toy play within natural environments. -
Education
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PHD Toy DesignMassey University2018 - Currently Enrolled
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Master of Design InteractivityMassey University2009 - 2009
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Graduate Diploma illustrationMassey University2006 - 2006
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Bachelors honours Industrial DesignMassey University1997 - 2000
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Experience
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Senior LecturerWellington, New ZealandJun 2008 - Present (18 years)
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Design DirectorWellington, New Zealand2006 - Present (20 years)
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Doll ArtistWellington, New Zealand1989 - Present (37 years)
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PresidentSan Francisco, CA2011 - 2017 (6 years)
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Toy DesignerSeven TownsLondon, United Kingdom2004 - 2005 (1 year)
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Toy DesignerEvolve NPDLondon, United Kingdom2005 - 2005
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Puppet FabricatorUnited Kingdom2004 - 2004
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Minature modelmaker3 foot 6Wellington, New Zealand2001 - 2001
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Prosthetics TechnicianWellington, New Zealand1999 - 2000 (1 year)
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Awards
Red Dot in the Concept design section of the Red Dot international Design awards in Singapore for the project "TweetMe" - Red Dot (2016)
Finalist at the 2014 Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards in the Interactive moving image section for the project Kakatrope. - Designers Institute of New Zealand (2015)
Invited to attend the 2nd Annual Pictoplasma Character Academy, an 8 day intensive character design workshop in Berlin. - Pictoplasma (2014)
Bronze award at the 2012 Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards in the temporary Exhibition Spatial design section for the project Tweet Me. - Designers Institute of New Zealand (2012)
Gold Award at the 2010 Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards in the Student Interactive design section for Master of Design project - Storytelling Memories. - Designers Institute of New Zealand Best Awards (2010)
2006 Wild Creations residency awarded conjointly by Creative New Zealand and the Department of Conservation. The award consisted of a 6 week live in residency at Maud island. - Department of Conservation (2007) -
Affiliations
National Institute of American Doll Artists (president Emeritus)
White Cloud Worlds (artist member)
Member of the Society of Animation Studies (SAS) -
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Elsewhere on the Web
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On Coroflot@tanyamarriott, member since 2001
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