Pamela Sweet

Pamela Sweet

‘SweetART Studio’

Toy-Gift Designer

61 Carroll Avenue

Newport, RI 02840

studio: 401-619-3090

cell: 401-619-3090

TOY EXPERIENCE:

Master Toy and Gift Designer, Illustrator:

Hired to create and present new concepts and ideas for character and product development. Generate toy and gift concepts encompassing sketches, digital color renderings, for sculpting and prototype planning and execution. Work closely with production staff including marketing, mechanism and model makers, Design for soft and hard product for major toy companies, design studios or independent sculptors and freelance artists. Specialties: Originality in Character concept styling and design: infant preschool, girls - from "soft-&-fuzzy" to "edgy/urban - roughs to finished art, B&W and/or color.



Toy Design History -

• Freelance: 1990 - 2015

‘SweetART Studio’

• Fisher Price Toys:

East Aurora, NY 1988 - 1991

Infant - Preschool toys - Art department



• Hasbro, Inc:

Pawttucket, RI 1983 - 1988

Playskool - Girls toys

• Red Farm Studio:

Providence, RI 1980 - 1983

Greeting Card design



• Freelance start-up:

Sudbury, MA 1975 - 1980.

Education:

Art Institute of Boston, BA in commercial art

Rhode Island School of Design, illustration/techniques

Salve Regina University, Photoshop CS3-4