Resumé
POSITIONS HELD
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2016 – present, Founder / Creative Director / Textile & Product Designer, Brandy Gibbs-Riley Textiles (BG Riley Design LLC)
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2005 – present, Freelance Brand and Visual Designer (BG Riley Design LLC)
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2016 – 2021, Licensing Surface Pattern and Product Designer
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2018, Mellon Teaching Associate in Art and Visual Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
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2004 – 2016, Freelance Graphic Designer and Brand Identity Consultant, MA, ME, NH, PA, and RI
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2015 – 2016, Lecturer in Design History and Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
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2014, Practitioner-in-Residence, Purposeful Work Program, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
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2013, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
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2007 – 2013, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
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2011, Faculty Leader, Education First Field Study in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
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2009 – 2011, Contributing Curator, Author, and Editor, Meggs' History of Graphic Design, 5th Ed. (by Philip Meggs and Alston Purvis), Boston and New York
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2011, Mellon Teaching Associate in Art and Visual Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
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2005 – 2007, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Chester College of New England, Chester, NH
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2004 – 2005, Design Director, Charles River Development, Burlington, MA
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2000 – 2004, Art Director, Devine & Pearson, Quincy, MA
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1998 – 2000, Graphic Designer, Bain & Company, Boston
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1996 – 1998, Freelance Graphic Designer, PA and MA
PRACTICE AREAS
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Graphic Design
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Branding
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Identity and Visual Systems
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Interactive Design
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Packaging Design
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Photography Direction
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Social Media Content Creation and Management
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Trade Show Design
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Visual Marketing Communication
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Pattern, Surface, Textile, and Product Design
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Design Education
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Design History, Research, Writing, and Criticism
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Fine Art
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Collage and Photomontage
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Mixed/Multi Media
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Painting
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Printmaking
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WORK PUBLISHED IN
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Creative Quarterly
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Design Management Institute News & Views
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Graphis
CLIENTS
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American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
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Bain & Company
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Bates College
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Boston Acoustics
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Boston Globe
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Boston University
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Charles River Brokerage
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Charles River Development
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Chinet
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Dartmouth College
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Design Management Institute (DMI)
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ELLE Decor
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The Fessenden School
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Fishery Products International
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Georgia Pacific
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Harabu House
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High Liner Foods
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Huhtamaki
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Humanscale
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IBM
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Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)
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Johnson & Johnson
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Johnson & Johnson Codman
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Johnson & Johnson DePuy (DePuy Synthes)
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Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development
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Kavka Designs
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Lehigh University
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Lesley University
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Long Island Center of Photography
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McGraw Hill
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MIT
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MIT Sloan School of Management
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Nasoya
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Ocean Cuisine International
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Ocean Spray
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OmegaTech
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Palm
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PepsiCo
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Pfizer
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Reuters
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Siemens
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Thomson Financial / Thomson Reuters
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Wentworth Institute of Technology
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Wiley & Sons
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YMCA
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE / VOLUNTEER WORK
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2016 – 2017, Social Media Marketing Consultant, Textile Society of America, Berkeley, CA
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2009, Member of the Board of Directors, American Institute of Graphic Arts NH/VT Chapter, Hanover, NH
EDUCATION
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2001, MFA in Graphic Design, Boston University College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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1996, BA in Studio Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
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2012, Design Research, Writing, and Criticism, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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2001, Contemporary Dutch Design and Practice, Boston University, Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands
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1995, Art and Marine Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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1994, Italian Art History, Bates College, Tuscany and Rome, Italy