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 & 2022)
Studio Assistant,
Cummings Illustration
Organized original art inventory and helped run children’s book workshop
Apr - Jun 2022
Junior Designer,
Mindful Design Collective
Designed and assisted with client LUK Beautifood print and digital content
Sep - Oct 2021
Freelance Designer, Rainbow Centre
Designed logo and collaterals for a stationery project
2016 - 2017, 2020 - 2021
Teaching Assistant, The New School
Taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory
Nov 2018
Freelance Dresser,
Museum of the Moving Image
Part of the install team for the 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 archives
Feb 2018
Exhibition Assistant,
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Part of the de-install team for the exhibit “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”
2015 - 2018
Freelance Writer, The Straits Times
Contributed 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 & 2022)
Studio Assistant,
Cummings Illustration
Organized original art inventory and helped run children’s book workshop
Apr - Jun 2022
Junior Designer,
Mindful Design Collective
Designed and assisted with client LUK Beautifood print and digital content
Sep - Oct 2021
Freelance Designer, Rainbow Centre
Designed logo and collaterals for a stationery project
2016 - 2017, 2020 - 2021
Teaching Assistant, The New School
Taught undergraduate and graduate classes at Parsons’ School of Art and Design History and Theory
Nov 2018
Freelance Dresser,
Museum of the Moving Image
Part of the install team for the 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 archives
Feb 2018
Exhibition Assistant,
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Part of the de-install team for the exhibit “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”
2015 - 2018
Freelance Writer, The Straits Times
Contributed 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