RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Teacher's Assistant, Systemic Innovation & Design course | Oct-Dec 2022
Designed presentation slides and workshop boards using Figma and FigJam. Evaluated student work with the teacher team.
Designer, StartSOLE, IDBM Industry Project | Nov 2021–May 2022
Contributed to designing and facilitating prototypes and tests. Rotating leadership and responsibilities of planning, presenting, and presentation-making. I designed illustrations for the StrenghtenJr interface.
Team Leader & Visual Designer, IDBM Impact 2022 | March–May 2022
I managed creativity as a Branding Team Lead. I worked closely with other team leads and the IDBM faculty. My responsibilities included creating branding guidelines for IDBM Impact 2022, designing visual assets, managing the team by streamlining processes, planning ahead, communicating with other teams, facilitating brainstorming sessions, and distributing tasks among the Branding Team.
Graphic Designer, Ace Lagoon | Jan–April 2021
Created designs for Game Development World Championships (GDWC), Game Jams, and GDWC Junior. Worked closely with the client by actively listening, and balancing between the client’s wants and needs. Balanced project management and creative work.
Team Leader & Visual Designer, YA! Under Construction | Sept–Oct 2019
Participated in creating BNO’s Young Alumni graduate exhibition during Dutch Design Week in 2019. Worked closely with the head designers for the visual identity system. Responsible for planning, coordination, distributing work, and designing campaign visuals.
Graphic Design intern at Hats & Tales, Rotterdam, Netherlands | April–August 2018
Graphic Design intern at Jasna Rok, Antwerpen, Belgium | Jan–March 2018
Designer, Willem de Kooning Graduation Show | March–June 2016
Created digital and analog marketing materials, a way-finding system, and signage with a team of two other designers and an illustrator.
Freelance Graphic Designer, various clients | 2018–2021
Created a multitude of digital and printed graphics for various clients. Contributed design ideas in all stages of the projects. Learned expectation management, presentation skills, organizational skills, balancing management and creative work, client management, planning, and working independently. Got familiarised with strategy, marketing, and balancing multiple projects simultaneously.
I've worked on numerous projects with cultural organizations and independent artists. My clients include Grafia magazine, Dutch pop band Reino, Squish Rotterdam, Kontra, Hearth Design Lab, BlueShift, Wick Wojtas, and Club Cohesie.
EDUCATION
International Design Business Management (MA) Aalto University | 2021–2023
Graphic Design & Minor+ Visual Culture (BA) WdKA | 2015–2019
Accomplishments
Participated in the "Save Lapinlahti with a Poster" competition and poster exhibition. Lapinlahti Loves Art and Life Festival 9.–10.7.2023.
Successfully mentored three design teams during the DASH Hackathon in October 2022.
2ND place in an interdisciplinary design competition for Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam. The project was developed with Vera Hendriks (product designer) and Ties Kweekel (interior architect). 2017.
Designer, part of the design team for the Willem de Kooning Academie graduation exhibition. 2017.
Participated in the "Save Sex" poster competition and exhibition. Den Affische Galerie, Den Haag and 3sec gallery, Breda. 2016.
OFF-DUTY & RESPONSIBILITIES
Mentor for Mitsubishi teams, DASH Hackathon, 2023
Member of Torso Editorial Team (writer, illustrator, designer), Torso Magazine, 2023
Actor, Aalto University Mentoring Program, 2022–2023
Student rep., IDBM Programme Committee, 2021–2022
Completed Mental Health First Aid -course by Mieli ry, 2–3.11.2022
Mentor for Fazer teams, DASH Hackathon, 7.–9.10.2022
Speaker, INTRO2022 course on Wellbeing & Time Management, 3.10.2022
Participant, Kollaasi Hackathon, April 2022.
Volunteer photographer, Helsinki City Museum, 2020 onwards.
Participant, Creative Incubator, Rome, 2020.
Participant, Creative Incubator, Vienna, 2020.
Speaker, Unsettled Tensions, Amsterdam, 2019.
Volunteer, WORM / IFFR / Graphic Matters, Netherlands, 2017–2020.
Student rep., Graphic Design/English Stream, 2018–2019