Curriculum Renata Rizzo

Renata Rizzo CURRICULUM

R E N A T A RI Z Z O Citizenship: Italian Cell: +5551 989490381 Skype: rizzodesign r.rizzodesign@gmail.com

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Experience in international design with focus in graphic, product and experience design.

Effective team player, versatile leader and communicator, coordinating creative people and collaborating with institutions. Inspiring tutor and student mentoring. Excellent linguistic knowledge.

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Laureate International Universities- Uniritter - www.uniritter.edu.br/

2013-Present

Porto Alegre • Brazil DesignLab Coordinator – Responsible for the creation, development and coordination of the DesignLab, generating knowledge through industry partnerships, creating job and internship opportunities and offering extreme creative design solutions to external clients.

Assistant Professor - on the subjects: Graphic Design Studio, Product Design Studio, Indie Publications, Magazine Design, POS Design Studio (UX/UI), Graduation project design Studio, Packaging technology, Ethics to designers. Undergraduate and post-graduate student supervising and assessing.

International Professor– Responsible for the first 100% English language design subject, “Digital Portfolios” to local undergraduate students.

Rizzo Strategic Design – https://issuu.com/renatarizzo/docs/rr2016 2008-Present Porto Alegre • Brazil Art Director/owner – Design consultant for graphic. product, display, editorial, and pattern design.

Folha de São Paulo Newspaper – www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/ 2007 São Paulo • Brazil Art Director – Brazil’s biggest newspaper company. Part of the design team, responsible for the infographic design, pagination and layout of the daily newspaper.

Ruud Lighting Europe - www.ruudlighting.it 2004-2007 Florence • Italy Contract Art Director – Part of the marketing team, responsible for the corporate image of both Italian and American offices. Coordination of marketing, design for fair stands and booths and also publications and print media.

Giunti Editore S.p.A. – www.giunti.it 2004 Florence • Italy Contract Art Director – Responsible for the design of “Gallery of the Academy” and “Pitti Palace” exhibition catalogues, from image choice to quality control of finished product. Plan and design themed merchandise for the Uffizzi Gallery, cover design for several feature publications in different areas such as art, children, curiosities and cooking. Pilot project for the redesign of “Art and Dossier” magazine.

Targetti Sankey S.p.A. – www.targetti.com 2002-2004 Florence • Italy Art Director – Part of the main marketing team, coordinating multi-language catalogues, invitations, posters, stationery, signage and displays. Also monitoring work of free-lance designers, photographers, partners and printers. Responsible for the overall promotion of the Targetti Light Art Collection (contemporary art collection) redesigning catalogues, invites, flyers and posters, and its exhibitions overseas.

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery – www.govettbrewster.com 2000-2002 New Plymouth • New Zealand Graphic Design Coordinator – Concept development of exhibition layouts, logos, publications - catalogues, books, magazines, posters, invitations, brochures. Signage and special displays design for each exhibition. Merchandise design for the museum’s shop, external publishers and supplier coordination, quality control of finished products. Collaborating with the museum director and supports staff to maintain the museum’s design style. Supporting Council’s marketing staff with design issues.

Taranaki Polytechnic - www.witt.ac.nz 2000-2002 Faculty of Art & Humanities (evenings) New Plymouth – New Zealand Graphic Design Professor – Developing basic Editorial projects to the evening studies department.

Italian Language Professor – Italian Language & Culture to English-speaking students of the evening studies department.

Lutheran University – ULBRA www.ulbra.com.br 1996-2000 Faculty of Industrial Design Canoas • Brazil Assistant Professor. Developed the practical subjects of Studio of Form (Project Themes: Books, Magazines, Shopping Bags and Calendars) and Practice of Graphic Design Projects I (Project Theme: Corporate Identity design for Thematic Parks).

Created and developed an Extra-curricular course, based on the Italian method of Threedimensional Modelling Advanced Techniques.

OTHERSKILLS Languages ENGLISH (FLUENT) ITALIAN (FLUENT) PORTUGUESE (FLUENT) SPANISH (REGULAR) Computer ADOBE: CREATIVE SUITE: ADOBE INDESIGN, PHOTOSHOP, ILLUSTRATOR QUARK XPRESS AFTER EFFECTS MACROMEDIA: FREEHAND, FLASH AUTOCAD AND SKETCH UP MICROSOFT OFFICE PACKAGE HARRIS PAGINATOR NED GRAPHICS: COLOR REDUCTION, DESIGN AND REPEAT

EDUCATIONBACKGROUND

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 1988-1993 Porto Alegre • Brazil - BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM Conclusion Project: An Urban Youth Hostel in the Mountains.

Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan • Italy - MFA DEGREE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Conclusion Project: An innovative design to furniture.

1994-1995

Scuola Politecnica di Design Milan • Italy - MFA DEGREE COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN Conclusion Project: The design of an international fair stand.

1994-1995

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre • Brazil - MSC DEGREE IN DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY Conclusion Project: The design of museum apps for mobile devices.

2012-2014

SPECIALACHIEVEMENTS

Special Acknowledgements: Laureate International Universities - Uniritter – Three times voted Honoured Professor Chelsea Museum of Art NY for the project of the “Targetti Light Art Collection at the Chelsea Art Museum” catalogue Invited Designer: Casa&Cia design show – Feature patterns for the whole show, 2014 Casa&Cia design show – Feature patterns for toilets, 2013 Designer of the catalogue for the artist Peter Robinson, representing New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2001 Featured Works: New Zealand magazines - ProDesign and Art New Zealand Japanese book - “Business Card Graphics” - PIE Books

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