Contact.
shannon@shannonsouth.com
New York, NY
Connect.
Skills & Tools
CS4, Dreamweaver, Flash, CSS / HTML /
XML, SolidWorks, design research, concept development, art direction,
sewing, patternmaking, woodworking, metalworking, model making
Exhibitions + Conferences
May/07
Apartment
Therapy New York, NY
Presentation of my furniture design work.
Oct/2004-2009
Pop!Tech Conference Camden, Maine
Volunteer for six years in a row and counting...
May/05
Turf
Collective New York, NY
Co-founder; Turf Collective was a group of ten designers on a rogue mission
to exhibit their work in a box truck during the ICFF with three days to
prepare.
May/05 & May/04
Brooklyn Designs Brooklyn, NY
Rocking chair & lamp selected for exhibition.
Oct/04-Feb/05
Denmarks International
Studies Program Pratt Institute
New York, NY
Promotion of DIS summer program; exhibition design.
Jan/05-April/05
IDSA Conference New York,
NY
Web designer & conference committee
for the IDSA conference.
May/04
Pratt Alumni Exhibition, New York, NY
Exhibition signage & website.
April/04
Design
Green New York, NY
Conference & workshop on sustainable design.
Education
2003-05 Pratt Institute New
York, NY
Masters in Industrial Design
2004 Danmarks Designskole Copenhagen,
DK
Furniture Design
2001-02 Rosenhof
Skole Oslo,
Norway
Norwegian Language Studies
1991-96 University of Florida Gainesville,
FL
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Electronic Media (Honors)
1995 Royal College of Art London,
UK
Graphic Design, Art History
Work Experience
Jan/09-current reMade
USA Brooklyn, NY
Owner & Creative Director
reMade USA is a product design company that makes bags
out of recycled leather clothing & scrap.
June/08-June/09 MTV's
AddictingGames.com San
Francisco, CA
Primary Web Designer
AddictingGames is an online casual gaming site whose primary demographic is teenage boys and is one of the most popular gaming sites on the web with over 10 million unique visitors per month.
March/08-May/08 Sephora San
Francisco, CA
Web Designer (contract)
Sephora is the leading e-commerce beauty site for high end cosmetics.
June/07-April/08 MTV
Networks Digital Programming New York, NY
Art Director
MTV's Digital Programming/Verticals Group was a small, experimental group whose aim was to develop many entertainment-based web properties in a short time span.
Feb/2000-2008 Plastic
People Design New York, NY
Owner & Creative Director
Plastic People Bags was an online retail & wholesale business which specialized in ladies laptop bags.
Aug/06-March/07 MeMedia New
York, NY
Senior Designer
MeMedia was a start-up that was developing a "new" (at the time) form of advertising that would allow ads and other information pertinent to one's interests to be served to them via a beautiful 3-D cube on their PC's desktop.
Jan/06-April/06 Marcel Wanders Studio Amsterdam,
NL
Design Internship
Marcel Wanders Studio is an award-winning product & interiors studio located in Amsterdam.
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Letter of recommendation.
Aug/02-Aug/03 Scott
Adam Designs New York, NY
Bag Designer/ Web Designer
This company designs and manufactures (PWP, GWP) bags for the cosmetic industry. Their main clients are Lancome and Revlon.
Oct/00-May/01 Modem
Media
New York, NY (contract)
Web Designer
Modem was one of the first strictly digital advertising agencies.
Nov/99-Sept/00 Saatchi & Saatchi
Interactive New York, NY
Senior Web Designer
This was Saatchi NY's entry into digital and my first professional web design job. Originally called Darwin Digital, much of their work
came from Saatchi. Their main clients were Proctor & Gamble and General Mills.