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Catherine Chesters

Design / Art Director / Visual Storyteller

Brooklyn, NY, USA
646 705 1834 be.net/catherinechesters

Work Experience

Viacom

CD/ VH1/Logo/MTV

VH1 ANTM: relaunch
VH1 Hip Hop Honors
VH1 Divas
MTV VMA AWARDS 2017

April 2016 - September 2017 New York, United States

FCB

Freelance CD

Masserati Levate
Fiat Spider
Clorox
Radio Flyer
September 2016 - April 2017 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Showtime Networks

Senior Art Director

September 2019 - December 2021 New York, United States

Mtv

Senior Design Director

Freelance Design Director for the MTV Design.
Worked on Teen Wolf Season 4 campaign, 2014 Video Music Awards and Artist to watch packaging as well as the upcoming artist App Identity.
April 2014 - New York, United States

Santarelli&Co

Art Director

September 2012 - September 2013 New York, United States

Freelance

Art Director

Gretel, The Lab, Loyal Kaspur, Show+Tell, Santarelli&Co.Pilot.
September 2009 - September 2012 New York, New York, United States

Nickleodeon

Art Director for television network, the N & Teennick

October 2007 - September 2009 New York, New York, United States

©®OOK

Owner/Creative Director

• MTV Desi. Create new Channel Identity for the launch of Mtv Desi.
• VH1, Classics logo, Storytellers show packaging.
• G4TV. Art director overseeing channel identity for network.
• MTV ‘The Leak’ and ‘Viewers Pick’ show packaging.
• EMI Publishing
• AIGA award MTV Fight for Your Rights’ PSA.
• YAHOO Studio
• The N Rebrand. Create new Identity for teen network.
September 2002 - September 2007 Los Angeles, California, United States

Thingy

Partner

• Travel Channel Show packaging.
• PAUL OAKENFOLD TRANCEPORT/ Kinetic Records.
• Burly Bear network. Art Directors Club, ‘Young Guns’ 3, award.
• TDK - NYC Times Square Jumbo -tron animation.
• Wieden & Kennedy agency ESPN “ are you old school ‘ Campaign
• Nickleodeon Home Video Opening credits
September 1990 - March 2001 Brooklyn, New York, United States

Education

London College Of Communication

BA Hon 2.1 Media Production Design

September 1990 - June 1994 London, United Kingdom

Suffolk College Of H&FE

HND Design Communications, Design, Advertising, Illustration, Typography

1988 - 1990 Ipswich, United Kingdom

Durham New College

OND Art & Design

1986 - 1988 Durham, United Kingdom

Awards

PromaxBDA Awards

silver fight for your rights MTV PSA

2001

ADC Young Guns

YG2

1998

British Design & Art Direction (D&AD)

Silver MTV Fashionably loud

1999

Art Directors Club (ADC) - New York

Young Guns

1999

Skills

Adobe Illustrator, Letterpress, Photoshop, After Effects, CS6, Indesign, Mentor, Pre Press, Screenprinting,