Bio

Clients

Susan D. Kaplan, LEED AP BD+C principal at BuildingWrx 2011
~ Designed business card, and front cover, proposal to Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS).

Marcia Romanuck, AD, The Design Company, packaging design firm in Atlanta GA
~ illustrations on packaging for beauty products, organic vitamin products, and some design sketches for presentation to clients of garden pots and hummingbird feeders. 2010-2012+

Karen Street, Author, DeMilo's Feet, an online book, yet to be published.
~ Shoe illustrations. 2010

Rachel & Kincy Clark, RDKC, ~ Color fashion illustrations, African quilted garments, on envelopes, for home sewing quilters. See my illustrations on four coat and vest styles, on their website: RDKC.com (in the column, right).

Alain Sainson Frank, Manager of Product Development, Philadelphia Museum of Art
~ 250 Years of Fashion exhibit, period costume illustrations, used on museum shop products. 1998

FCB/Leber Katz Partners
~ Color presentation fashion illustrations for their client, FILA SPORTS INC. 1996

Jim Leff, Food critic and founder of Chowhound.com
~ Logo design for the original Chowhound. 1998

Staff positions held

Vogue Patterns/Butterick Co. - 1985-1996 ~ Staff illustrator, full color presentation artwork and detailed croquis sketches for the designers in-house. Also, full color illustrations in the catalog, and on product envelopes.

Larkin, Pluznick, Larkin Publications - 1983-1985 ~ Staff fashion illustrator, illustrations as well as the layout/design for editorial fashion spreads in several of their retail publications, including the New England Fashion Retailer, Kids Fashions, Teens & Boys, and color promotional brochures for the International Fashion & Boutique Show.

Grover Cronin Inc. - 1978-1985 ~ Staff fashion illustrator, illustrating the weekly sales circulars, black and white illustrations for womens, mens, children's fashions as well as home furnishings.

Education

  • The School of Fashion Design, Boston - Certificate
  • Städel Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main Germany - Painting & Printmaking
  • Modeschule der Stadt Wien im Schloß Hetzendorf, Vienna, Austria - Fashion Design

Awards

  • ILGWU Next Great American Designer Award ~ 1977 4th place
  • ILGWU Next Great American Designer Award ~ 1978 2nd place

Foreign languages: German, French, Hungarian.