What is Andrea doing today?

Andrea is Project Coordinator and Showroom Designer for Yorktowne Cabinetry in Red Lion, PA. Each year, she conceptualizes Yorktowne's display design for the International Builders Show and the Kitchen & Bath Industry Show, two premiere national exhibitions attended by tens of thousands of professionals annually. Andrea also designs and styles for photography sets, interfacing with marketing, manufacturing, and sales to promote new product roll-outs.

Creative inspiration

Andrea's career path is a perfect illustration of the ubiquity and salability of design skills in the visual arts universe. As a student of graphic design in 1990 (then called Commercial Arts), Andrea intended to seek a career in that discipline. Her first employer was a local, but nationally renowned wallcovering manufacturer. There, she found herself working under the tutelage of Ronald Redding, one of the most revered and celebrated designers in the industry, getting into pattern design, coloring, and printing. Since then, Andrea has been a "graphic interior designer" of sorts, working for companies traditionally targeted by interior designers as premium employers.

Getting Out There

In the nineties, while still working as a designer/styist in the wallcovering industry, Andrea developed up to six collections a year including licensed collections for The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and professional golf legend Arnold Palmer. More recently, Andrea's designed and coordinated features appearing in Country Living and Bon Appetit magazines.

Stats:

Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts

Degree: Commercial Art, Associate Degree in Specialized Technology, 1990

Employer: Yorktowne Cabinetry