Lisa Brown

- Teaching Adobe Creative Suite
- Teaching Fine Arts and Crafts

- Taught at STAMPS School of Art & Design
- Taught three sections of ARTDES115 Studio 2D
- Taught ARTDES423 Packaging Design - Senior Studio
- Led two Art & Design History discussion sections - ARTDES115
- Taught ARTDES105 Drawing: Visualization - rapid perspective sketching for artists and designers

Courses I have currently instructed:
Industrial Design History
Semiotics
Ergonomics
Products for Future Office
Design Theory
Sustainable Design
Masters Product Studio
CMF Design
Vehicle Brand Analysis
Design Evolution
Collective Transportation
Culture & Psychology
Trend Analysis
Form & Study
Mapping UX Experiences

Lectures students on subjects related to Industrial and Automobile & Transportation Design:
- Vehicle Brand Analysis: understanding the form language of diverse automotive brands
- Collective Transportation: designing the future vehicles that move people simultaneously
- Design Theory (MFA): understanding what design is and what it does
- Technically Complex Product 3: designing products with a mechanism & sensors
- Semiotics: how culture has a massive impact on all of us unconsciously via meanings
- Industry Internship: prepare and monitor students before and during their internship

- Spearheading growth in sales, revenue and company’s competitive advantages
- Marketing the company’s assets in a positive light and drawing in a targeted audience to purchase coffee
- Sales representative for Mud Club of the Month and coffee subscriptions
- Crafts visual merchandise displays and asked to redesign displays in flagship store
- Requested to redesign the company’s online presence through webpage and mobile web design
- Heading store redesign & remodeling: interior design, store front design and wayfinding
- Charged with creating an updated brand message: consistent graphics and color palette
- Implements all the company’s graphic design needs using Adobe Creative Cloud
- Manages social media networks: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram

Responsible for the design and development of TentCraft's high end tent bags and the design of the premier tent's metal parts. TentCraft is a world-class manufacturer that produces professional marketing tents, flags and other printed experiential marketing elements for the most discerning brands and agencies across North America.

Designing, marketing and selling a line of recycled products: toys, holiday items, purses, and housewares

The boutique contained an exquisite collection Indian handicraft and local one-of-a-kind-design.
Over 50% of all the merchandise profits went to support women run NGO’s in India. These NGO’s support local villages, supply healthcare, childcare, fight famine, help earthquake victims, tsunami victims, and provide dignity for women & their families.

- Instructed Product Design, Design Theory, Ergonomics, Color, Model making, Furniture Design, Sustainable Design, Lighting Design, Electronics Design and Transportation Design
- Managed international design lecturers and assisted in the opening of a new branch/college of their company in India
- Designed the studio tables and chairs for all the departments and coordinated with furniture manufacture concerning quality, colors, materials and scheduling
- Designed billboards, lobby signage, newspaper and magazine advertisements that assist in marketing recruitment of new students and introduce the college to Mumbai
- Wrote articles concerning the Industrial Design field to support Marketing’s recruitment efforts
- Created PowerPoint presentations to educate students and staff about Industrial Design

Labyrinth Bed & Breakfast was situated in the heart of Leelanau County, located near the northeast corner of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park. All food and cleaning products were organic.

- Taught ‘Introduction to Industrial Design’: drawing and model making (clay, wood, plastic & metal)
- Led students in exploration to identify their own form language and how to design for a consumer
- Conducted four major projects, each emphasizing design as a process
- Instructed students: drawing techniques, layout, balance, form language and presentation

- Designed interiors: instrument panel, doors and center console
- Created foam core models, directed clay modelers, illustrated and rendered presentation drawings
- Coordinated with marketing department to create storyboards that illustrated market trends
- Explored new trends for the Color and Materials Department
- Participated in consumer focus meetings & brainstorm sessions
- Created image boards for marketing to communicate the essence of the consumer of the F-250 in Alias Studio Paint
- Designed comprehensive curriculum for designers, clay modelers, and design management
- Entrusted to startup a educational department under Ed Golden a direct report of J Mayes
- Built a lecture series, bringing in experts in the field of Design in-house & internationally
- Created a seminar series to enhance problem-solving skills
- Collaborated with departments to create courses: Design, Marketing, Scientific, & Engineering
- Developed a comprehensive process to evaluate designer’s skill levels & core competencies

- Managed team of designers, assigning projects and tasks
- Served as a Lead Designer for a full size city transit bus
- Executed a 1-day off-site brainstorming workshop for designers
- Coordinated and problem-solved with all departments on multiple aspects of bus project
- Designed and made full scale models to support the development of the low floor city bus

- Developed and implemented three individual curriculums for introductory Industrial Design courses
- Taught rendering, graphic layout, drafting, materiality, history, ergonomics and model making
- Assisted students in creating projects that met course requirements
- Created a weekly forum for classmates to discuss what good design is today & why
- Directed and advised students in their design projects
- Instructed the students the fundamentals & etiquette of how to critique their fellow students work

- Assisted designers in the creation of products for Target line
- Presented concepts to owner Michael Graves
- Designed products through sketching and model fabrication
- Completed sketches, computer renderings, pattern making/sewing

- Designed infant toys that were inline with the the companies strategic design direction
- Made prototypes for plastic and soft good products (plush/quilt/doll)
- Created innovative products for infants to 3 year olds
- Met key margin considerations and goals while collaborating with Marketing & Engineering
- Designed Products: ABC Refrigerator Magnets, Peek-a-boo Butterfly, Safari Nesting Animal Train, and Clutch Ball

- Served as primary designer for plastic toys
- Designed using illustrations, created orthographic drawings and made prototype models
- Met team targets for product cost and manufacturing
- Designed: Dinosaur Toothbrush, Breast Pump, Sesame Street Pacifiers, Stroller Tray, and Fun & Fruity Bottles and Pacifiers