Melissa Deckert

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ABOUT

Melissa Deckert is a multidisciplinary designer and art director based in Brooklyn. Her work combines graphic design principles with a tactile sensibility, in the fields of branding, visual campaigns, editorial illustration, lettering and more.

Previously, Melissa was a Senior Brand Designer at Etsy, and a co-founder of Party of One—a creative studio specializing in story-driven visuals for brands, products and publications.

With 10+ years experience, Melissa currently runs an independent practice and is available for new and interesting projects of all kinds.



CONTACT
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SHOWS
Society of Illustrators 63 Exhibit (Group Show, NY, 2020)
Society of Illustrators 60 Exhibit (Group Show, NY, 2018)


JURY
TDC67 Communication Design Competition (2021)


SPEAKING
Columbia GSAPP Lecture (PO1, NYC, Jan 2022)
Adobe Live (PO1, San Francisco, Oct 2019)
Shillington Lecture (PO1, NYC, June 2019)
AIGA Work Wife (PO1 Panel Interview, NYC, March 2019)
RISD Group Lecture (RISD Commons, May 2017)


AWARDS
Young Guns 18 Finalist (2020)
ADC 99th Annual Merit Winner (PO1, April 2020)
Cooper Hewitt National Design Award (Etsy Design Team, 2014)
GDUSA Student To Watch (2012)


PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
The Family Reviews (PO1 Interview, Feb 2021)
Society of Illustrators 63 (PO1 Publication, Winter 2020)
Illustration Hour (PO1 Podcast, Sept 2019)
Shillington (PO1 Interview, August 2019)
Creative Chair (PO1 Interview, June 2019)
Design Observer Chain Letters (PO1 Interview, Dec 2018)
99 U Design Debate (Interview, Dec 2018)
WNW Interview (PO1 Interview, Sept 2018)
Plastik Magazine (PO1 Interview, July 2018)
Society of Illustrators 60 (Publication, Spring 2018)
It’s Nice That (PO1 Feature, Jan 2018)
AIGA Eye On Design (Feature, June 2015)

CAPABILITIES

Art Direction

Branding & Identity
Editorial Illustration
Graphic Design
Logos
Lettering
Print Design
Prop Styling
Set Design


CLIENTS

Acuvue
AirBNB Magazine
AirBNB
Columbia University
Cosmopolitan
Damn Joan
Eater
Etsy
Foreign Policy
Gather & Seek
Grandview Public Market
Hodder & Stoughton
InStyle Magazine
Italic
Mercedes-Benz
Moroccan Oil
Mother Jones
New York Magazine
The New York Times
Otherland
Penguin Books (Random House)
Pepsi
Playboy
Spiegel & Grau
Sunwink
Timber Press
Time Magazine
Time Out NY
Tumblr
Verge
Vox Media
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
Wired Magazine

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