Lucy Bonner

Brooklyn, NY, USA
I am a designer & illustrator with a passion for social impact design. I create work in a variety of mediums to inspire thought and conversation.

www.lucymbonner.com

Work Experience

Local No. 12

Web Designer, Community Outreach Manager

Redesigned the new website for their social card game The Metagame, plan community events and assist in promoting The Metagame at conventions, plan social media strategy, and assist in game design and mechanics for the new mobile word puzzle game Losswords.
May 2015 - Brooklyn, New York, United States

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center

Ms. Foundation Fellowship

I designed and illustrated a children's book: What To Do When You're Raped for the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center. The book highlights the environment of sexual violence that Native women and girls live under, the jurisdictional loopholes that create it, and the struggle to reach emergency contraceptives that further amplifies the unending situation.
June 2015 - March 2016 Lake Andes, South Dakota, United States

Parsons School Of Design

Teacher's Assistant, Creative Computing

Helped to teach undergraduate Design students the fundamentals of web programming, including HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript. Held regular office hours for both group and one-on-one tutorials.
August 2015 - December 2015 New York, New York, United States

Parsons School Of Design

Code Instructor, Bootcamp Fellowship

Taught the fundamentals of coding and programming to incoming Design & Technology MFA students with Processing and the Java language.
July 2015 - August 2015 New York, New York, United States

The Honors College At The University Of Houston

Graphic Design & Events

-Print and multi-media design and layout, redesign for the new brand

-Temporarily assumed responsibilities of the Director of Communications—subsequently promoted

-Event planning and management
January 2012 - June 2014 Houston, Texas, United States

Education

Parsons The New School For Design

MFA in Design & Technology

-Winner of the Red Bull Design Jam, consequently took part in the Collaboration course

-Social Media and Communications position in the dorkShop committee

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The MFA in Design and Technology explores the social and cultural dimensions of technological change.

From Bootcamp to the final Thesis Symposium, faculty members, who are active design practitioners, encourage students to pursue forward-looking creative, commercial, research-based, educational, and art-based career paths. Areas of study include Interaction (mobile, games, Web, and installation), Physical Computing (programming code and chip-based applications such as toys, fashion, media in architecture, and performance technology), 2D and 3D Animation, Motion Graphics, and Digital Filmmaking.
July 2014 - Present New York, New York, United States

University Of York

MA in Medieval Studies

Master’s in Literature, History, and History of Art subjects within Medieval Studies
September 2009 - January 2011 York, United Kingdom

University Of Texas At Austin

BA in History, Psychology

3.84 GPA
National Merit Scholarship
Liberal Arts Honors Program
Phi Beta Kappa
August 2005 - December 2008 Austin, Texas, United States

Languages

Spanish (Conversational),
Latin (Beginner),

Awards

Parsons School Of Design

University Merit Award Scholarship

2015

Red Bull Design Jam

Most Effective

2014

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, C#, C++, CSS, Data Visualization, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Oculus Rift, OpenFrameworks, P5.js, Social Impact, Swift, Virtual Reality, Web Programming,