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portfolio
verabradley.com
Participated in the re-design and re-platform of verabradley.com in 2007. Continue to maintain the overall look and design of the e-commerce site, including homepages, banner ads, landing pages and more. verabradley.com
role
Design maintenance
year
2007 – present
Email Marketing
Part of a team of three that is responsible for all in–house design and coding of email marketing at Vera Bradley. Continuously creating new templates and concepts for our different campaigns.
role
Design, HTML
year
2007 – present
verabradley.org
Maintain the overall look and design of verabradley.org, a Ruby on Rails site. Design updates include billboards, banners, landing pages, backgrounds and occasionally micro–sites. verabradley.org
role
Design maintenance
year
2007 – present
insidestitch.com
Designed the layout for the new Vera Bradley blog, Inside Stitch, using elements from the company's sourcebooks. Implemented on the wordpress platform. Together with our Web Copywriter, maintain the look and content on a regular basis. insidestitch.com
role
Design, CSS
year
2010
Splash of Color Sweepstakes
Created identity, designed landing page and supporting emails, and coded all html/css for Vera Bradley's Splash of Color Sweepstakes. Back-end form code and hosting was done by a third party.
role
Design, HTML/CSS
year
2010
Sun & Sand Sweepstakes
Created identity, designed landing page and supporting emails, and coded all html/css for Vera Bradley’s Sun & Sand Sweepstakes. Back-end form code and hosting was done by a third party.
role
Design, HTML/CSS
year
2010
A & N Wedding
Designed and produced all design elements of wedding including, but not limited to, the logo, save the date magnets, invitations, reply cards, menus, programs, favors, thank you cards and website. Invitations letterpressed by Bumblebee Press.
role
Identity, Design, Production
year
2007
Great Barrier Reef Style Guide
Designed and developed a style guide website for a fictional Great Barrier Reef logo and business system that I created as a student at the University of Florida.
role
Identity, Design, HTML/CSS
year
2007
Christmas cards
Designed Christmas Cards with a focus on typography. Each illustration has been made entirely out of type, and features one line of a Christmas song at the bottom with one missing letter, inviting you to find that letter in the image above.
role
Product design
year
2006
doodles
Designed a jacket for a fictional book about the children’s illustrations that Paul Rand created throughout his career. The book jacket was designed to be consistent with Rand's illustrations.
role
Book jacket design
year
2006
experience
SR. Web Designer
Vera Bradley Designs, Inc. | August 2008 – Present
Work with the Interactive Media Producer to concept, design, and execute web and email promotional campaigns. Responsibilities include: designing and producing components for verabradley.com and verabradley.org, as well as microsites, email campaigns, web banners and social media.
Freelance Designer
January 2007 – Present
Design and develop an assortment of graphic and web designs for various companies and individuals. Responsibilities include: designing and producing graphic materials for invitations and other printed materials, designing and developing logos, and designing and coding websites for companies and individuals.
Assistant Director of Layout
UF Homecoming & Gator Growl | June – October 2006
Assisted Director of Layout with all print materials associated with Homecoming and Gator Growl, the nation's largest student-run pep-rally. Responsibilities included: designing and producing promotional handbills, collaboratively designing the program for Gator Growl, designing and producing the Blue Key newsletter from start to finish, and filling in for the Director as needed.
Design Intern
Eye4 | June – August 2006
Opportunity to observe and shadow the Creative Director of a small design company. Responsibilities included: working on the concept mapping of projects, collaboratively designing a logo for a photography company and handling tasks for the company in exchange for class credits.
education
University of Florida
Gainesville FL | May 2007
BFA in Graphic Design
Sessions School of Design
New York, NY | online studies | 2007 – 2009
Masters Certificate of Web Design
Computer-Integrated Studio
University of Florida | 2005 – 2007
Through a selection process, myself and 16 other students were chosen out of 60 applicants to participate in a unique two year, computer–integrated graphic design program at the University of Florida. The studio atmosphere allowed us to communicate, inspire one another, and grow individually as a tight–knit community of designers.
about
Let's see … first of all, I like design. I like it so much that after I graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Florida, I decided I also wanted to learn web design (which I did). I mostly focus on standards based web design, and hand–coding html and css. Although most of my work as of lately is web–based, I still enjoy print design, identity & branding, package design … pretty much anything that will allow me to conceptualize and create on a regular basis.
- email nissak@ufl.edu
- visit linkedin.com
- call 352.514.3671
- follow @nissakirsten