Sylvia
Finzi-Dubois
Associate
Creative Director/Designer
web:
sylviafinzi.com
email:
sylvia@sylviafinzi.com
phone:
917 378-4855
OBJECTIVE:
To utilize the skills I
have acquired in the last seventeen years of art directing,
branding, designing, and all creative development for advertising,
marketing with a focus on beauty and fashion.
EMPLOYMENT:
FREELANCE
FULLTIME 1991/PRESENT
AGENCIES:
-Saks
Incorporated/saks.com: In-house advertising/design. Art
directed shoots, worked on concepts, as well as set design,
photo-shoots, layout, and selection of all talent and crew
(stylists, fashion and prop, make-up and hair).
-DDBNY:
New York Lotto Corporate
Design, Bayer Pharmaceutical advertising campaign, Mobil, and Amana
Appliances
-Munn
Rabot: NYIT (New
York Institute of Technology). Print campaign for the
school
-Berenter
Greenhouse & Webster: Collateral material for Bed Bath &
Beyond
-GWhiz
Design Group: Fusion
Beauty cosmetic line
-Avrett
Free Ginsberg: Designed collateral material for the
promotion of a new development in Tribeca developed by The Sunshine
Group LTD
-The
New York Times: Advertising, Promotion, Design division
of the newspaper as well as other promotional
materials
-SpikeDDB:
Art directed/designed
Essence magazine Ads, African-American women’s magazine. Tanqueray
London and Royal Caribbean ad campaigns
-Socio
X: Worked for Parson
School of Design promotional materials, Donald Grahm Photography,
The St. Regis Hotel & Resorts, and Amsale Bridal
-Chillingworth/Radding:
Worked on for an ad
campaign for Watreford
-Manhattan
Marketing Ensemble: The Benjamin, Affinia, Affinia
Associate Hotels), J&B Scotch Whisky, Johnnie Walker Scotch
Whisky
-Meyer
& Associates: Brochure and promotional material for
The Yachts of Seabourn
-Hill
Holliday: Verizon
wireless, AOL Time Warner advertising/promotional
material
-AgencySacks:
Promotional material
for The Peninsula
Hotels, and The Carlyle Hotel
-Grey
Worldwide E-Marketing: Designed work for Oracle
-Draftfcb:
Designed a corporate
identity for a new online client
Iffound.Com
-Comvert,
Milan: Bastard
snowboard company based in Italy.
-TBWA/Chiat/Day:
Ad campaign for Lovable
Bras, and Nivea Skin Care Products
-Di
Noto: CNN
International, and Domaine Chandon advertising
campaign
-OgilvyOne:
AT&T, and American
Express Corporate Card
-Green
Team Advertising: Worked for various advertising campaign
as well as designed corporate identity and collateral, promotional
materials for Monaco Tourism, Center for Marine Conservation,
Smithsonian Institution, Trump International Hotel & Tower,
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
-Grey
Advertising: Pantene
Hair Care print and TV advertising campaign, Habitrol Nicotine
Patch, Playtex, General Foods Granola Cereal, U.S. Postal
Service.
CLIENTS:
1991/PRESENT
-Giving
Nature. Givingnaturecenter.com: Developed brand identity for an
upcoming wellness center
-GoSmile:
Designed corporate identity
for a smile beauty
company
-Tito
Pedrini Jewelry: Worked on an advertising print
campaign
-beautynewsnyc.com:
Corporate identity and web
design for one of New York’s most widely read online beauty
magazine
-Mariana
Antinori: Designed a
corporate identity for an Italian furniture design
-Sem
Fronteiras Press Children’s Books: Branded a children’s publishing
company
-Asphalt
Green: Brochure and
advertising for a fitness non profit organization
-Next
Generation Yoga: Designed material for a children’s yoga
studio in NYC
-Euclid
fashion: Brand
identity for a new fashion label
-Body
Circle: Designed
logo for a fitness facility in NYC
-Rockras:
Created corporate identity
for a jewelry line
EDUCATION:
School of Visual Arts New York 1991
BA Fine Arts (Advertising and Graphic Design)
Academy of Applied Arts Milan, Italy 1987
MFA Graphic Design and Advertising
Art Institute Turin, Italy 1984
Degree in Applied Arts, division of Architecture and Interior
Design
Art
Institute Verona, Italy 1982
Degree in Art Education, Architectural Design
SKILLS:
Proficient in
Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft Word,
Adobe PDF. Fluent in English, Italian, understanding of Spanish and
Portuguese