Erin Barbato
184 Andover St. Georgetown, MA 01833
Experience
Self-Employed
Freelance Designer
Fall 2010—present
- Responsible for the design of marketing materials for several different companies like posters, ads, flyers, brochures, slide presentations, preparing files for use on online platforms, etc.
- Designed and made revisions to toy packaging, including editing photos and creating illustrations for packaging.
- Created product designs for different home decor companies, including technical information for vendors.
Freelance Clientele:
- Nanco
- TJX
- Fetco Home Decor
- KI Marketing
- Holly Kids
- The Dahl Group
- Patton Veterans Project
TJX, Framingham, MA
Senior Product Designer
Fall 2008—Fall 2010
- Responsible for the design of a variety of product development projects, which included home decor, seasonal and home office items.
- Experience developing products in different materials including wood, plastic, stone, metal, resin, glass and natural materials like shells.
- Supplied product designs with all necessary technical information.
- Responsible for correspondence with overseas vendors to verify information and make revisions to designs to meet costs.
- Experience with travel overseas to Hong Kong and China to meet with vendors to review product development samples before shipment, and view any new development from vendors.
- Communicated any changes that were needed to samples that vendors sent for review.
Education
Hartford Art School
BFA in Illustration
Class of 2003
- Graduated Cum Laude
- GPA: 3.76
Bradford College
1999-2000
- Completed 30 credits in Graphic Design program.
Skills
- MAC OS Catalina v. 10.15.1
- Windows 8
- Adobe Photoshop CC 2020
- Adobe Illustrator CS6
- Adobe InDesign CS
- Microsoft/Excel/Powerpoint
- Google Docs/Slides