​POSITIONS HELD

 

• 2016 – present, Founder / Creative Director / Textile & Product Designer, Brandy Gibbs-Riley Textiles (BG Riley Design LLC) 

• 2005 – present, Freelance Brand and Visual Designer (BG Riley Design LLC)

• 2016 – 2021, Licensing Surface Pattern and Product Designer

• 2018, Mellon Teaching Associate in Art and Visual Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• 2004 – 2016, Freelance Graphic Designer and Brand Identity Consultant, MA, ME, NH, PA, and RI

• 2015 – 2016, Lecturer in Design History and Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME​

• 2014, Practitioner-in-Residence, Purposeful Work Program, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• 2013, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI

• 2007 – 2013, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH

• 2011, Faculty Leader, Education First Field Study in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

• 2009 – 2011, Contributing Curator, Author, and Editor, Meggs' History of Graphic Design, 5th Ed. (by Philip Meggs and Alston Purvis), Boston and New York

• 2011, Mellon Teaching Associate in Art and Visual Culture, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• 2005 – 2007, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Chester College of New England, Chester, NH

• 2004 – 2005, Design Director, Charles River Development, Burlington, MA

• 2000 – 2004, Art Director, Devine & Pearson, Quincy, MA

• 1998 – 2000, Graphic Designer, Bain & Company, Boston

• 1996 – 1998, Freelance Graphic Designer, PA and MA​​​​​
   

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PRACTICE AREAS

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• Graphic Design

  • Branding

  • Identity and Visual Systems

  • Interactive Design

  • Packaging Design

  • Photography Direction

  • Social Media Content Creation and Management

  • Trade Show Design

  • Visual Marketing Communication

• Pattern, Surface, Textile, and Product Design

• Design Education​

• Design History, Research, Writing, and Criticism

• Fine Art​

  • Collage​ and Photomontage

  • Mixed/Multi Media

  • Painting

  • Printmaking

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WORK PUBLISHED IN

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• Creative Quarterly

• Design Management Institute News & Views

• Graphis

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CLIENTS​

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• American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)

• Bain & Company

• Bates College

• Boston Acoustics 

• Boston Globe

• Boston University

• Charles River Brokerage

• Charles River Development

• Chinet 

• Dartmouth College

• Design Management Institute (DMI)

• ELLE Decor

• The Fessenden School 

• Fishery Products International

• Georgia Pacific

• Harabu House

• High Liner Foods

• Huhtamaki

• Humanscale 

• IBM

• Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)

• Johnson & Johnson 

• Johnson & Johnson Codman

• Johnson & Johnson DePuy (DePuy Synthes)

• Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development

• Kavka Designs

• Lehigh University

• Lesley University

• Long Island Center of Photography

• McGraw Hill

• MIT

• MIT Sloan School of Management

• Nasoya

• Ocean Cuisine International

• Ocean Spray

• OmegaTech

• Palm

• PepsiCo

• Pfizer 

• Reuters

• Siemens

• Thomson Financial / Thomson Reuters

• Wentworth Institute of Technology

• Wiley & Sons

• YMCA

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE / VOLUNTEER WORK

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• 2016 – 2017, Social Media Marketing Consultant, Textile Society of America, Berkeley, CA 

• 2009, Member of the Board of Directors, American Institute of Graphic Arts NH/VT Chapter, Hanover, NH 

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EDUCATION

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• 2001, MFA in Graphic Design, Boston University College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

• 1996, BA in Studio Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME

• 2012, Design Research, Writing, and Criticism, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

• 2001, Contemporary Dutch Design and Practice, Boston University, Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands

• 1995, Art and Marine Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

• 1994, Italian Art History, Bates College, Tuscany and Rome, Italy

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