EDUCATION
Parsons The New School for Design
AAS: Communication Design / 2021
MA: Fashion Studies / 2017
Middlebury College
BA: Political Science & Japanese
Christie’s Education
Online Certificate: History of Jewellery Design 1880 to Now
Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies / Stanford University
Certificate: Advanced Japanese
SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Premiere
Writing: News, Features, Interviews, Editing, Copy Editing, Creative
Language: English, Japanese - Fluent (JLPT Level 1 Certified)
OTHER
I’m a graphic designer, writer and curious thinker with a fondness for all things applied arts and an appreciation for the quietly beautiful, methodical approach.
Globally minded with time spent in Tokyo, NYC, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore; now based in Brooklyn and Singapore.
Parsons The New School for Design
AAS: Communication Design / 2021
MA: Fashion Studies / 2017
Middlebury College
BA: Political Science & Japanese
Christie’s Education
Online Certificate: History of Jewellery Design 1880 to Now
Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies / Stanford University
Certificate: Advanced Japanese
SKILLS
Adobe Creative Suite: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, Premiere
Writing: News, Features, Interviews, Editing, Copy Editing, Creative
Language: English, Japanese - Fluent (JLPT Level 1 Certified)
OTHER
I’m a graphic designer, writer and curious thinker with a fondness for all things applied arts and an appreciation for the quietly beautiful, methodical approach.
Globally minded with time spent in Tokyo, NYC, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore; now based in Brooklyn and Singapore.
EXPERIENCE
May - July 2021
Studio Assistant,
Cummings Illustration
Organized and digitized an extensive original art inventory
2016 - 2017, 2020 - 2021
Teaching Assistant, The New School
Taught undergraduate and graduate classes in the School of Art and Design History and Theory
Nov 2018
Freelance Dresser,
Museum of the Moving Image
Part of the install team for the film fashion exhibit “The Coen Brothers Go West: Costume Design for the Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Jun - Sep 2018
Freelance Archivist, Tory Burch
Photographed and cataloged corporate and vintage fashion items for the physical and digital archives
Feb 2018
Exhibition Assistant,
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Part of the de-install team for the landmark design exhibit “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”
2015 - 2018
Freelance Writer, The Straits Times
Contributed fashion and design stories from NYC
Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
Journalist, The Straits Times
Wrote 2-3 stories per week as the main fashion writer for the biggest daily newspaper in Singapore; interviewed designers, CEOs, editors and models; coordinated shoots, product spreads and regular columns
Additional Work
The Museum at FIT
Dore Studio
Ace & Jig
US Embassy Tokyo
May - July 2021
Studio Assistant,
Cummings Illustration
Organized and digitized an extensive original art inventory
2016 - 2017, 2020 - 2021
Teaching Assistant, The New School
Taught undergraduate and graduate classes in the School of Art and Design History and Theory
Nov 2018
Freelance Dresser,
Museum of the Moving Image
Part of the install team for the film fashion exhibit “The Coen Brothers Go West: Costume Design for the Ballad of Buster Scruggs”
Jun - Sep 2018
Freelance Archivist, Tory Burch
Photographed and cataloged corporate and vintage fashion items for the physical and digital archives
Feb 2018
Exhibition Assistant,
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Part of the de-install team for the landmark design exhibit “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”
2015 - 2018
Freelance Writer, The Straits Times
Contributed fashion and design stories from NYC
Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
Journalist, The Straits Times
Wrote 2-3 stories per week as the main fashion writer for the biggest daily newspaper in Singapore; interviewed designers, CEOs, editors and models; coordinated shoots, product spreads and regular columns
Additional Work
The Museum at FIT
Dore Studio
Ace & Jig
US Embassy Tokyo