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SAM TOMASELLO Art Director, Graphic Designer, and Illustrator for Interactive, Print, and Broadcast Media Websites • CD-ROM • Exhibits • Children’s Books • Textbooks • Logos • Catalogs • Brochures • Invitations Fine Art Prints • Calendars • Greeting Cards Email. sam@sammiegirl.com • Tel. 718.638.9848 • 10 Plaza St. #4B • Brooklyn NY • 11238
SAMMIEGIRL NEWS: Currently Illustrating an activity book on gardening for children and their parents to be published in 2007 by the BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN Sammiegirl's series of Extreme Life Form images on exhibit at the NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE from September 30th to January 15th 2007 Sammiegirl's "Why Is Something So Small So Important" illustration NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN featured in the GUILD OF NATURAL SCIENCE ILLUSTRATOR'S 2005 ANNUAL MEMBER'S EXHBITION
CLIENT LIST INCLUDES: Macmillan Mc-Graw-Hill Scott Foresman Davis Publications New York Botanical Gardens Brooklyn Botanic Garden Carbone Smolan Agency Nickelodeon On Air Nick-at-nite Nick Jr The Everybaby Company A-ha! Learning Jersey Cow Educational Software Herman Adler Design Encyclopedia Britannica Bantam Doubleday Dell Design 5 Creatives Rosa+Wesley Inc. Kirchoff/Wohlberg Inc. New York Times Business Week Boston Globe	Cablevision Optimum Online New York Magazine New York Women in Film and Television Asian American Business Development Center Abbott Laboratories Glaxo Smith Kline Maybelline Mastercard International M&M/Mars Incorporated URLS: www.sciencepiction.com www.sammiegirl.com www.davis-art.com www.statenislandacademy.org www.cocoapro.com www.eebee.com www.ahalearning.com www.aabdc.com www.waterpolofilm.com www.nicolefranklin.com
RECENT PROJECTS: MACMILLAN McGRAW-HILL Digital Illustration and design for K-6 Science textbooks to be published in 2008, inlcuding book cover for Leveled Reader for Grade 5 on Soil Layers. Other topics include: layers of the tropical rainforest, pollination, science poem about weather, kelp forest community, flower cutaway, photoshynethesis, lilypads above and under water. NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS, BRONX NY Digital illustrations for over 50 signs for the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden at the New York Botanical Gardens. Size of the signs varies, but many are very large format, the largest being 10 feet by 5 feet and the smallest being seven inches by seven inches. Most of the signs feature scenes with multiple plants and animals in a natural environment. Others are single images involved in conveying information about food chains or question and answer signs. NICKELODEON ON AIR Design of logos for Nickelodeon’s Cable TV offerings : "Total Gross Out Saturday", "Pie-O-Gram", and "RU All That? "Jimmy and Timmy Power Hour", "2005 Kids Choice Awards" AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, NYC 10 unique greeting card designs featuring extreme life forms sold at the Museum's main store STATEN ISLAND ACADEMY www.statenislandacademy.org Art direction and user interface design for Staten Island Academy, a private school. JERSEY COW EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE Art Direction, design and implentation for www.Davis-art.com User interface design for online educational initiatives for clients including The New York Institute of Technology Educational Enterprise Zone, Global Knowledge Exchange, and Course Crafters Inc. THE EVERYBABY COMPANY Art director and graphic designer for logo, website, and DVD label, hang tag, and signage design for groundbreaking series of instructional videos for 6-month old infants to three-year-old children SCIENCEPICTION Children's book and series of illlustrations about extreme life forms.
LUMINANT WORLDWIDE • August 1999 to March 2002 • Art Director and Illustrator Nickelodeon Design for NickSource Creative Assets Library content management tool Maybelline, LLC Aft Director for Animated banner campaigns, seasonal new product promotions, email newsletter campaigns M&M/MARS Incorporated • Art direction and illustration for skittles.com and branding sites for Skittles product line extensions • Art Direction and illustration for Flash-animated Skittles Green Apple game • Art direction and illustration for snickers.com and branding site for Snickers Cruncher • Art direction and illustration for www.cocoapro.com, a site created to educate consumers and healthcare professionals about the health benefits and history of chocolate Mastercard International • Interface design for Prepaid Card site, Major League Baseball promotion Sweepstakes site, and • Summer Escapes Sweepstakes promotion site • Designed targeted seasonal email campaigns for special promotions
THE GATE NYC • January 1996 to July 1999 Art Director and Illustrator User interface design for “Deutsche Bank” Ad Manager”, a Citigate proprietary application, and Société Générale Ad Library
AT&T DOWNTOWN DIGITAL NYC • May 1995 to December 1996 • Art Director, Graphic Designer and Illustrator Nickelodeon Art Direction and Illustration for “I Dress Lucy” shockwave game and “Everyday French with Pierre Escargot”, an educational game to expose children to the French language. Encyclopedia Britannica Art Direction and Illustration for "Inventors House" CD, one of a 6 CD-ROM set of interactive games for kids Cablevision Optimum Online User interface and icon design for Cablevision’s sports offering for women high school students on Long Island Newsweek Interactive User interface design for Parents Guide to Children’s Software site Washington Post User interface design for Election trivia game site with 1920s style illustration Bantam Doubleday Dell User interface design for Romance novel site
EDUCATION ACADEMY OF ART COLLEGE, San Francisco, California • B.F.A. in Graphic Design CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, Oakland, California • Coursework in Graphic Design UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor Michigan • Coursework in Literature, Art History, and Creative Writing. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY • Coursework in English Literature
AWARDS AND HONORS GUILD OF NATURAL SCIENCE ILLUSTRATORS • Illustration featured in Annual Members' Exhibition 2005 AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 9 ANNUAL • Two illustrations about street life in New York City WEB AWARDS 2000 • www.skittles.com LONDON ADTECH AWARD • M&M Mars Colorworks animated banner YAHOO • Review of Newsweek Interactive Parents Guide to Children’s Software GENIE AWARD • Delphi Internet site illustration entitled "Black Cats and Vampire Bats" NEW YORK TIMES CYBERTIMES • Review of AT&T’s Herspace, a site for women and teen girls NETGUIDE GOLDSITE AWARD • AT&T’s Herspace DESI AWARD • Price Waterhouse Environmental Litigation brochure GRAPHIC DESIGN: USA • Personal magazine profile for design of corporate literature PRINT MAGAZINE • Award for art direction of the Price Waterhouse Review