REBECCA ERDE INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant @ Rhode Island School of Design February 2018 to May 2018 Woodworking TA for graduate Industrial Design class, Full Scale Designer and Woodworker @ Bien Hecho Brooklyn Part Time, March 2016 to July 2017 Responsibilities included designing furniture, outputting technical drawings, rendering for clients; milling, finishing, assemblies, and installations
CONTACT Mobile_ + 1 (914) 282-6771 Email_ rerde@risd.edu Web_ www.rebecca-erde.com Inst_ @rebecca.erde
SKILLS Prototyping / Model Making Digital Fabrication / 3D Printing / CNC Milling / CNC Plasma Cutting / Lasercutting / Woodworking / Metalworking / Moldmaking / Glassblowing / Glass Casting Sketching / Photography
Design Manager @ Modos Furniture, Member of New Lab Part Time, June 2016 to July 2017 Responsibilities included fabrication, installations, Kickstarter fulfillment, designing new products, marketing, client interaction, graphic design, website design, social media, photography, packaging design, and organizing our ICFF booth Drafter, Fabricator and Teacher @ Total Metal Resource and Metal Shop Fantasy Camp Part Time, March 2016 to October 2016 Designer, Fabrication Lab @ SHoP Architects September 2015 to November 2015 Responsibilities included architectural scale model building and shop maintenance.
EDUCATION Master of Industrial Design @ Rhode Island School of Design Anticipated Graduation Spring 2019 Bachelor of Science in Architecture @ Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Double Minor in Urban Design and in French Cum Laude, Dean’s List May 2015
ACHIEVEMENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS
SOFTWARE Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Rhinoceros
Windows OS
Apple iOS
AutoCAD
Microsoft Office
Arduino
Solidworks
Finalist in Emerge 2018, a biennial international competition and series of exhibitions for emerging kilncast glass artists hosted by Bullseye Glass Company in Portland, OR Exhibitor in New England Builder’s Ball 2018, handbuilt bicycle show held in Boston, MA Fred M Roddy Memorial Scholarship from Rhode Island School of Design Awarded by the Industrial Design Department for a focus on healthcare design and for outstanding academic achievement, 2018-2019 academic year Featured in Core77, the Industrial Design Blog in March 2017 “Traditional Japanese Wood Joinery Cast in an Untraditional Material: Glass”
LANGUAGES English and French
Exhibited and published in the ACADIA (Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture) 2015 International Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio for senior project, AMP