Sarah now works in marketing. She was a home product designer for 15 years.

Experience

[Sarah Story, Inc.][President] New York, NY.  [Jan 2018- Aug 2022]

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, OEC Interior Design, and Hudson Valley Lighting. 

[Freelance Design] New York, NY.  [July 2017- Jan 2018]

[Kate Verner and Associates][Hable Construction]

[Furniture][Lighting]Technical designer of lighting, furniture, and other home products for various licensing partnerships, including introductory lighting collection for Hable for Visual Comfort. 

[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. 

[Freelance Design] New York, NY.  [Oct 2013- June 2016]

[Ralph Lauren][Kate Spade & Co.][AERIN][Thomas O’Brien, Aero Studios Limited][L’Objet][Finn and Flora]

[Lighting][Furniture][Tabletop][Bath Accessories] Designed, drew, and rendered home collections produced through licensing partners: Visual Comfort, E.J. Victor, Lenox, Restoration Hardware, Century Furniture. Hand sketching, pattern creation, and technical drawings for gift, accessories, and serving-ware.

[Martha Stewart Omnimedia][Decorative Houseware Designer] New York, NY. [Mar 2012-Dec 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- Mar 2012]

[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

[NYU Stern, MBA 2024)

Specializations: Marketing, Strategy, Global Sourcing & Supply Chain

[FIT, Fall 2018]

Continuing Education course: “Business Strategy”

[Pratt Institute, BID with Honors]

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

Software and Skills

[People Leadership, Presenting, Mentoring, 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]