Sarah has 12+ years as a home product designer.

Experience

[Sarah Story, Inc.][President] New York, NY.  [January 2018- present]

Design consultant and technical designer of lighting, furniture, and other home products. Clients include Kate Spade & Co, Kate Verner and Associates, Hable Construction, Saladino Group, Visual Comfort & Co, and Hudson Valley Lighting. 

[Kate Verner and Associates][Freelance Designer] New York, NY.  [September 2017- January 2018]

Technical designer of lighting, furniture, and other home products for various licensing partnerships. 

[Hable Construction][Freelance Designer] New York, NY. [July 2017- January 2018]

[Furniture][Lighting] Technical drawings and design consultation for furniture and lighting, consulted on introductory lighting collection presentation. 

[Anthropologie][Lighting Designer] Philadelphia, PA.  [July 2016- July 2017]

[Lighting] Designed and developed the seasonal lighting collections. Worked closely with buying and production teams to communicate with vendors during sampling and development, and advised on financial decisions to grow the category into an asset of the brand. The seasonal process consisted of finding inspiration to create narratives, hand and computer sketching to develop ideas along with department-wide presentations, creating technical drawings and information packs to pass to factories, and reviewing samples. Presented the final seasonal sample collections to the President, Design Director, and Anthropologie’s over-seas buyers. There was close collaboration with the furniture, textile, and tabletop departments to design cohesive home stories. 

[Kate Spade & Co.][Freelance Designer] New York, NY.  [February 2016- June 2016]

[Lighting][Furniture][Tabletop] Designed, drew, and rendered home collections: lighting for Visual Comfort, furniture for E.J. Victor, tabletop and decorative accessories for Lenox. 

[AERIN][Freelance Designer] New York, NY. [April- May, December 2015, June 2016, November 2017]

[Lighting] Technical drawings for Visual Comfort lighting collection.

[Finn and Flora][Freelance Designer] Brooklyn, NY.  [November 2014- May 2016]

[Lighting][Bath Accessories] Design and technical drawings for Kate Spade lighting collection. Technical drawings for Anthropologie decorative bath and lighting collections.

[L’Objet][Freelance Designer] New York, NY.  [February 2015- February 2016]

[Tabletop][Lighting] Hand sketching, pattern creation, and technical drawings for gift, accessories, and serving-ware. Drawings and renderings for proposed lighting collection.

[Thomas O’Brien, Aero Studios Limited][Freelance Designer] New York, NY.  [May 2014- December 2014]

[Lighting][Furniture] Technical drawings and design for Visual Comfort and Restoration Hardware lighting collections. Technical drawings and design for introductory Century Furniture collection.

[Ralph Lauren][Freelance Designer] New York, NY.  [October 2013- September 2014]

[Lighting][Tabletop] Design and technical drawings for Visual Comfort lighting collection. Tabletop renderings and technical drawings. 

[Martha Stewart Omnimedia][Decorative Houseware Designer] New York, NY.[March 2012-December 2013]

[Tabletop Design] [Decorative Accessories] [Serving-ware] [Drink-ware] [Barware] [Dinnerware] Trend and concept development, hand sketches, computer rendering and technical drawings, continued the defined product language of the Macy’s collection, analyzed samples, commented on samples, and revised drawings for vendors.

[Thomas O’Brien, Aero Studios Limited][Hard Home Designer] New York, NY. [April 2008- March 2012] [December 2011- March 2012] [Senior Hard Home Designer] [June 2010- December 2011] [Designer] [June 2008- May 2010] [Designer, Part-time Freelance] [April 2008- June 2008] [Intern]

[Visual Comfort & Co.] [Hickory Chair] [Reed & Barton] [Safavieh Rugs] [Target] [Architectural Renderings] Computer design,drawing, and rendering of hard and soft products,created technical drawings for factory production, reviewed samples, chose and matched color, and created patterns. Projects included designs for licensing partners listed above, as well as architectural elevation renderings. The most recent position required distributing and overseeing the workload among coworkers, and further communication and involvement with hard product licensing partners and factories.

Education

[FIT, Fall 2018]

Continuing Education course: “Business Strategy”

[Pratt Institute, BID with Honors 2010]

[Presidential Merit Scholarship] [Pratt Trustee Scholarship] [Naomi Leff Excellence in Design Scholarship]  Bachelor of Industrial Design

Software and Skills

[Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign; AutoCAD; Graphite; Microsoft Office; familiar with Rhino and Solidworks]

[Knowledge of Material Properties and Manufacturing Processes, Communicating with Cross-departmental Teams, Wood Working, Ceramics, Sewing and Pattern Making, Welding and Forging, Small Scale Metal Working]