RESUME: Nina
Tovish
3130 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington DC 20016
202.537.6705
LUCID DESIGN (10/97–present)
Founder and owner of a business dedicated to interactive
design and development.
- Leads all phases of project development, from client acquisition
through consultation, specification, prototyping, design, development,
testing, and deployment.
- Works in close coordination with other professionals on a project
team: engineers and developers, illustrators
or other
designers,
content providers, editorial personnel, systems administrators,
production staff, and marketing professionals. Serves as a bridge
between technical and non-technical participants.
- Creates multimedia assets ~ video, audio, animation, QTVR.
Writes scripts, directs voice and acting talent. Writes and edits
copy.
- See Lucid Design Home for links to
examples of web projects, intranet design, interactive
kiosks, and CD-ROM work.
SENIOR DESIGNER/INTERNET PROJECTS
Howard
Hughes Medical Institute (7/99–3/00)
Oversaw intranet design and development, created interfaces and
prototyped feature sets for inhouse software projects. Supervised
editorial and graphic design personnel, and established close collaboration
with engineers and technical leads.
NEW MEDIA PRODUCER
National
Museum of American Art (10/93–10/97)
Managed the development of a broad range of projects aimed at
making the museum’s resources accessible and meaningful
to the public, and developed museum standards and procedures
for digital media
acquisition and presentation. NMAA is now known as the Smithsonian
American Art Museum.
- Senior Producer and Creative Director of
the National
Museum of American Art’s multiple award-winning self-titled
CD-ROM, which features 763 works of art, powerful and innovative
searching
and browsing tools, over 80 multimedia supplements, and a Director’s
Choice exhibit, in addition to the full text of five collection
catalogs. Art directed, created multimedia assets, coordinated
all aspects of project, designed and produced prototype, and
wrote
the functional
specification
with the engineering team. The disc is reviewed favorably in this
New York Times article.
- Project manager and interactive
designer for virtual exhibits on
NMAA’s website.
- Designer and programmer of a standalone kiosk
at NMAA on “The
Interpreted Landscape: 19th Century American Landscape Painting.”
- Proposed and produced
the “Digital
Atelier,” a printmaking
studio for the 21st century — five artists-in-residence
at NMAA for three weeks demonstrated techniques and provided
hands-on
access to the latest image-making technology to the public
in an event sponsored by 34 companies. The project received
a 1998 Computerworld Smithsonian Award for Innovation in Media,
Arts, and Entertainment, as well as substantial media attention
(e.g., Publish Magazine (12/97), Photo Electronic Imaging (9/97),
USA Today, and CNN Headline News).
CREATIVE, JOURNALISTIC, AND MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE
in the visual arts
- The Open Book? an exhibition of artist’s bookworks at
the Visual Studies Workshop Gallery in Rochester, NY — Curated,
mounted, and promoted this show exploring the challenges and
opportunities presented by the display of artist’s bookworks
in the gallery environment. (Spring 1993)
- Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge,
England — Introduced
concepts of marketing and strategic planning to management; revised
database
to reflect information needed for membership; developed a membership
survey and surveyed other British arts organizations to determine
their approaches. (Summer 1992)
- Journalism — Wrote
on the visual arts for various publications in the upstate New
York region, including
the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle.
(1991–92)
- Freelance photography — Clients
included Boston University, Boston Woman Magazine, Curry College,
Harvard Magazine, Parliamentarians
Global Action, Project Bread, Radcliffe Quarterly and News, Time
Magazine, University of Massachusetts, USA Today, and numerous
private portrait commissions. (1986–91)
- Boston Visual Artists Union — Formulated
and executed a public relations strategy to publicize the BVAU’s
Fifteenth Anniversary, achieved press coverage in five major
regional newspapers
and two television shows. Designed and edited newsletter. (1987)
- Boston
Arts Festival — Served as managing editor of the Festival’s
Program/Catalog of a visual and performing arts events; assisted
in development of Festival’s graphic identity. (1985)
BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
- As a freelance writer, worked with a variety of clients to
develop business communications strategies and materials to target
clients
or audiences, or for fundraising. Clients included organizations
such as Northeast Consulting Resources Inc., and Greenpeace
International. (1984–86)
- Arthur D. Little, Inc. — As a professional
in the Management Counseling section: planned and wrote proposals
to clients
in a wide spectrum of industries and services; participated
in all phases
of the Long Term Energy Plan for the State of Alaska; analyzed
data and wrote the Sixth Report on the Signatory Companies
to the Sullivan Principles; designed and wrote public relations
and marketing
material targeting a wide variety of audiences. (1981–83)
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Laureate in Media, Arts & Entertainment,
Computerworld Smithsonian Awards
1998 Innovation Collection, for the “Digital Atelier” at NMAA
- Merit Award: Multimedia, 1998 How
Design Annual, for NMAA CD-ROM
- Silver Medal for Art Direction,
Art Director’s Club, for NMAA CD-ROM (1997)
- MILIA D’Or for Best Art & Culture
Title, for NMAA CD-ROM (1997)
- Henry Fellowship to Cambridge University,
England (1980–81)
- Best Senior Thesis in the Literature
Major, Yale University (1980)
- Phi Beta Kappa (1979)
SPEAKING AND TEACHING
- Museums and
the Web ’99, New Orleans — Project Demonstration, “Rings
of Passion Website” (3/99)
- Industrial Designers Society of America,
Southern District Conference — Workshop
leader, “The Art of the Possible;” Speaker, “Interactivity?
What Interactivity? (4/98)
- Technology and Naval Historical Programs — Panelist/Speaker, “Outreach
via the Internet” (7/97)
- Museum Visits in the Multimedia Age, Free
University of Berlin, Germany — Speaker, “One Museum’s Options” (5/97)
- Museum Computer Network Conference — Panelist, “SGML
and Other Strategies to Get the Most Out of Your Publications” (9/94)
- MacWorld Expo/Boston — Panelist, “Overview of Low Cost
Authoring Tools” (8/94)
- MacWorld Expo Summit, Washington DC — Panelist, “Creation,
Authoring, and Development Tools.” (5/94)
- SUNY Brockport. NY — Designed
syllabus and taught a new undergraduate studio course entitled “Making
Visual Books.” (Fall
1992)
EXHIBITIONS
- 4th Annual Members Show, Pyramid Arts
Center, Rochester, NY (9/92)
- RIT/VSW Graduate Students Show, SPAS Gallery, RIT (3/92)
- Booknotes/Notebooks, Cortland Arts Council
Gallery, Cortland,
NY (2/92)
- Visual Studies Workshop Group Show, SUNY
Brockport, (7-9/91)
- Hitting the Books, Minnesota Center for
Book Arts/University of Alabama (5/91)
- Art as Dialog, SPAS Gallery, RIT, Rochester, New York (3/91)
- Photoportraits, Bunting Institute, Cambridge, MA (6/90, solo)
- N + 1 Group, Hilles Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
(5/90)
- Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA (5/89, solo)
- Aspects of Light, Judi Rotenburg Gallery, Newbury St., Boston,
MA (3/88)
- Cambridge Multi-Cultural Art Center, Cambridge, MA (9/86)
- Open Competition Exhibition, Boston Arts Festival (9/85)
EDUCATION
- M.F.A. in Visual Studies, SUNY Brockport/VSW, Rochester,
NY (1993)
- Henry Fellow (Philosophy) at Cambridge University, England
(1980–81)
- B.A. in Literature (summa cum laude), Yale University, New Haven,
CT (1980)
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