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Resumé

​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​​​
     

PRACTICE AREAS

  • 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

WORK PUBLISHED IN

  • Creative Quarterly

  • Design Management Institute News & Views

  • Graphis

CLIENTS

  • 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

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE / VOLUNTEER WORK

  • 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 

EDUCATION

  • 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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