Paola Pagano
Illustrator/Freelance Designer
New York, NY, USAA strong sense of layout and typography, a passion for creating captivating images and the ability to work with different media are my main features as a Designer and Illustrator. This versatility allows me to adapt my approach to the different needs of every project, work out original solutions, and fine-tune them to the client’s satisfaction.
Every aspect of the creative process is equally important to me: from the intellectual process that brings ideas to life, to the technical aspects of turning those ideas into usable products.
Every aspect of the creative process is equally important to me: from the intellectual process that brings ideas to life, to the technical aspects of turning those ideas into usable products.
Work Experience
Paola Pagano
Freelance Designer/Illustrator
I started several collaborations with studios, institutions and artists. Among them: Tough Mudder, Hunter PR, Sterling Publishing, Artforum, Curioos, NYC Ballet, Charity Footprints, Forma International, CreateThinkDo, La MaMa, Roll Studio, the Farm School, starting film producers and directors graduating from Tisch Asia.
June 2013
- Present
New York, United States
Spectacle Publishing Media Group
Graphic Production Artist
Cover design both for digital and print use, Layout of printed books.
October 2014
- Present
New York, New York, United States
Roll Studio
Freelance Collaboration
Website and logo redesign
September 2013
- November 2013
Avellino, Italy
Artforum International
Associate Designer
Layout, typesetting, color correction of the ad section of the magazine on print and digital support, lead designer of Artguide application, house advertisement, artforum.com, Artguide logo, design and coding of Artforum and Bookforum monthly newsletter, retoucher. Many of the designs that I created for Artforum are still visible on their website: among them, the redesign of the home page.
September 2010
- April 2013
New York, New York, United States
The Washing Machine (Now Studio Rocchi Pavese)
Design Intern
Layout of magazines and journals, brochures, posters, logos and corporate identities design.
February 2009
- May 2009
Rome, Italy
Education
Sapienza – Università Di Roma
BA in Graphic Arts and Multimedia
Studied subjects including graphics, computer-aided design, compositing, multimedia publishing, architectural design, industrial design and packaging, cinema theories and techniques, photography and history of art.
Final project: animation movie “The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle”, drawn from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel.
Submitted to the 2010 Cartoona competition and selected for presentation by the jury at the 2010 Comicon exhibition; submitted in 2011 to the Cortoons Festival in Rome, and selected to rotate on their web-tv for a year.
Final grade: 110/110.
Final project: animation movie “The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle”, drawn from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel.
Submitted to the 2010 Cartoona competition and selected for presentation by the jury at the 2010 Comicon exhibition; submitted in 2011 to the Cortoons Festival in Rome, and selected to rotate on their web-tv for a year.
Final grade: 110/110.
September 2007
- March 2010
Rome, Italy
Languages
Italian (Native),
English (Native),
Skills
2D Animation,
Branding,
Cover Design,
Dreamweaver,
Illustration,
Illustrator,
Indesign,
Logo Design,
Newsletter Coding,
Photoshop,
Poster Design,
Traditional Drawing ,
Watercoloring,