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Levin + Riegner (L+R), Brooklyn, NYDesign Intern, Summer 2013, www.levinriegner.comLevin+Riegner, LLC is a Brooklyn-based creative agency that merges strategy and aestheticsResponsibilities included: Created wireframes and mock ups for websites, Created original logo designs for projects, Helped design graphics for in-house mobile game app project.

FRANK151, New York, NYDesign & Social Media Intern, Spring 2013, www.frank151.comFRANK151 is an independent internationally recognized publisher. Responsibilities included: Worked on the quarterly-sized publication Frank Book, contributed original graphics for publication. Layed out images, typography for the book. Help maintain social media pages and provided blog content on music, art, design, and concert reviews.

Purchase College (State University of New York), Purchase, NY Computer Lab Monitor (part-time), Fall 2012 – PresentMonitor Mac computer labs for the School Of Art & Design at Purchase College. Assisting students with work and software, troubleshooting computer problems, and maintaining printers.

Loews Corporation / Loews Hotels & Resorts, New York, NYIn-house Design & Print Shop Intern, Summer 2012, www.loews.comResponsibilities included: Designed various materials for the corporation and hotels, including posters, postcards, menus, brochures, inserts, and identity for business programs. Produced electronic mechanicals and files based on existing strategies, concepts, templates and brand guideline. Prepared graphic files for pre-press and printing-linking graphics, including fonts and creating color separations. Completing production and finishing of printed items.

Doctors Without Borders / MSF , New York, NYWeb Intern, Summer 2011, www.doctorswithoutborders.orgResponsibilities included: Edited multimedia files, including slideshows, audio, and video. Designed web layouts, graphics, banners, and e-newsletter templates. Improving, managing, posting, and maintaining content on MSF social media pages and Drupal CMS. Monitored and produced web metrics. Participated in discussions regarding site development and growth.

OBJECTIVE: Designer seeking internship in visual design and related areas.

EDUCATION: Purchase College (State University of New York) Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design Graduated May 2014

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Design Skills: Branding & Identity; Print Collateral; Book & Magazine Design; Packaging; Print Advertisement; Letterpress; Silkscreen Printing; User Interface Design

Technical Skills: Adobe Creative Suite; HTML5; CSS3; Javascript; Social Media and Blogging Platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram,Tumblr, Twitter,)

NIKHIL MISRAnikhilmisra100@gmail.com516-640-9368Mineola, New York

SKILLS & ABILITIES

DAMAGE NYCApril 2013Package Design, Identity

Craft beer IPA packaging and branding based on late 70s & early 80s hardcore punk aesthetic. All of the type was hand drawn.

Type As Metaphor: SyriaOctober 201222 X 34 Posters

Typographic posters based on the current Syrian conflict. Styles were inspired by Syrian culture and architecture. Information was used from October 15th 2012,

FRANK Book LayoutsJanuary 20135.6 X 7.5 Spreads

Layout design experiments of image and typesetting for Frank Book Chapter 50: Brazil at my internship at FRANK151.

FRANK Book LayoutsJanuary 20135.6 X 7.5 Spreads

Layout design experiments of image and typesetting for Frank Book Chapter 50: Brazil at my internship at FRANK151.

FRANK Book LayoutsJanuary 20135.6 X 7.5 Spreads

Layout design experiments of image and typesetting for Frank Book Chapter 50: Brazil at my internship at FRANK151.

Various Identities/Marks2011 - 2014Identity, Logo Design

A selection of various logos that were part of school projects and some that were part of projects at my internships at Loews and Levin + Riegner.

Various Posters2011-201311 x 17 Posters

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Save The Date:

A special screening of Andy Warhol’s original 1965 double-screen film, Outer and Inner Space, starring Edie Sedgwick. The only Warhol film to incorporate the use of videotape, Outer and Inner Space is a hallucinatory monologue/duologue between Edie Sedgwick in front of the camera, and Sedgwick onscreen, in a previously shot video. Discussion will be facilitated by Purchase College Art History Professor Michael Lobel.

6:00 PM : Refreshments Refreshments and Warhol-inspired music and artmaking

6:45 PM : New Media Lecture This lecture is co-presented by the Neuberger Museum of Art and the New Media Board of Study, School of Film and Media Studies, Purchase College.

About First WednesdaysNeu First Wednesdays are designed by Purchase College students to provide lively social, creative and intellectual engagement with works of art for their fellow students and the wider community.

A selection of posters that I have done over the past few years for events at Purchase College and the Neuberger Museum of Art.

Xtra XtraDecember 20123x5 Letterpress Prints

Xtra XtraDecember 20123x5 Letterpress Prints

Letterpress project in re-appropriating news headlines to their original print form of woodblock type. Headlines were taken from various news sources in fall of 2012.

Bitrade: A Bitcoin ATMDecember 2013Identity, Concept Design, Interactive Design

Concept for a Bitcoin ATM service. The goal behind this concept was to create a simple interface for the common user to use Bitcoin for everyday life and convert hard currency to Bitcoin.

re May 2014Identity, Concept Design, Interactive Design, Social Innovation

Senior thesis at Purchase College. I created a visual concept for a web application for international organizations to use to reconnect loved ones after natural disasters and areas of human conflict.

Senior thesis at Purchase College. I created a visual concept for a web application for international organizations to use to reconnect loved ones after natural disasters and areas of human conflict.

re IdentityMay 2014Identity, Concept Design, Interactive Design, Social Innovation

re InterfaceMay 2014Identity, Concept Design, Interactive Design, Social Innovation

Senior thesis at Purchase College. I created a visual concept for a web application for international organizations to use to reconnect loved ones after natural disasters and areas of human conflict.

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