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Award-Winning Author and Journalist Tansy E. Hoskins's Recommendation/Reference PDF
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EXHIBITS & PUBLICATIONS
POETRY Magazine, May, June, July-August issues, featured illustrator (2021)
Apartment Therapy, "Etsy Employees Tell Us The Under-$25 Buys They Love" (2019)
VOGUE Australia, "Book Club with Emma Watson: The Actor Shares Her Ultimate Reading List" (2019)
Etsy, “Best of Etsy: Summer Trends: Turn Up The Heat” (2018)
Publishers Weekly, “10 Essential Books About the Immigrant Experience,” Good Girls Marry Doctors by Piyali Bhattacharya (2017)
NBCNews.com, "Good Girls Marry Doctors" Curates Stories On Family, Obedience, Rebellion" (2016)
ELLE Magazine, 'Good Girls Marry Doctors': A Conversation Between Piyali Bhattacharya And Tanwi Nandini Islam (2016)
VOGUE India, “These essays capture the trials and triumphs of immigrant south Asian women,” (2016)
Entropy Mag, “Best of 2016: Non-Fiction Books,” Good Girls Marry Doctors by Piyali Bhattacharya (2016)
Autostraddle, "17 Incredible Indie Online Shops for One-of-a-Kind Gifts to One-of-a-Kind People" (2016)
The Huffington Post
"Good Girls Marry Doctors Anthology Unveils South Asian Women's Fraught Lives" (2017)
"A Feminist Gift Guide For Anyone Who's All About That Gender Equality" (2015)
"27 Fierce Feminist Prints You’ll Want To Hang On Your Wall" (2015)
GRAZIA Croatia, June 2015 edition, feature graphic designer for Tansy E. Hoskins's Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (2015)
TheIndependent.co.uk, “Owen Jones's 'Agenda for Hope': We Want A Fairer Society – And Here’s How We Can Achieve it” (2015)
Shakespeare & Company Bookstore, in-person premiere event, “Tansy Hoskins on Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion”, (9 March 2015)
The Guardian, "Top Seven Books On Sustainable Fashion" (2014)
AWARDS
21st Independent Publisher Book Awards National Gold Medalist in Anthologies, Good Girls Marry Doctors by Piyali Bhattacharya (2017)
London's Institute of Contemporary Arts "2014 Book of The Year" Award Winner; feature graphic designer for Tansy E. Hoskins's Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (2015)
The Alliance of Radical Booksellers "2015 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing" Nominee; feature graphic designer for Tansy E. Hoskins's Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion (2015)
33rd Annual Society for News Design Award; award of excellence; feature illustration (2012)
Best of Ringling; juried student art show; acrylic/pencil painting, sketchbook, and digital (2009, 2010, 2011)
Completed 23-piece senior illustration thesis and organized corresponding gallery space; Ringling College (2011)
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Freelance Illustrator/Graphic Designer
The POETRY Foundation, www.poetryfoundation.org, 2021
Composed three-cover series for website’s magazine and website.
Paramount Pictures, 2020
Contributed background artwork for feature film, Like A Boss.
Hallmark, 2015
Illustrated 2 greeting card covers for Hallmark's MAHOGANY line.
JAOM Omni Media & Ténaj Creative Nation, Toronto, Ontario, CA, July 2012 – June 2014.
Completed logos, illustrations, graphic/web design, book layouts/covers, e-magazine design, and photo editing.
Book Designer
Worked with all aspects of book design; cover design, text layout, metadata excel sheets, and uploading. Genres include self-help books to novels to children's books. Eleven books have been completed thus far. Feb. 2012 - Present.
Executed 11 illustrations forThe Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins. Aug 2022.
Illustrated cover for novel The Dream Is In Your Hands by Amazon best-selling author Leigh M. Clark. Nov. 2021.
Completed full illustration and text layout for children’s book Starting School by The QUARTO Publishing Group UK. May 2021.
Supplied front cover artwork to Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian-American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion by Piyali Bhattacharya. 2016.
Illustrated cover for Nail It!: 100 Step-by-Step DIY Designs for Fashion-Forward Nails by Sophie Harris-Greenslade. 2015.
Composed cover and interior book layout for 222-page self-help book Awaken to Existence: Discover the You Within by Arian Herbert. 2014.
Executed cover and 11 illustrations for Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins, #1 Bestseller. 2014.
Composed cover and entire interior book layout for 298-page novel Everything I Couldn't Tell My Mother by Pauleanna Reid. 2014.
Completed entire interior/exterior layouts and illustrations for published children's books, Why Mommy Loves The Rain, Why Mommy Loves The Snow, and Why Mommy Loves The Sun by Janét Aizenstros. 2012.
Illustrated cover for young adult novel Intermix Nation, by M.P. Attardo. 2013.
Jewelry Designer
Owner of Jade & Serif, a specialty one-person jewelry and print business. Responsibilities include buying construction materials, packaging design, graphic design, launching ads, shipment, customer service, product photography, advertising, and SEO. Dec. 2014 – Present
Leapforce Search Engine Evaluator/Quality Rater
Perform tasks that test Google's search algorithms to improve search results. Aug. 2013 – Present.
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
Marketing Creative Design Intern
Tampa Bay Times (formerly The St. Petersburg Times), St. Petersburg, FL, June 2011 - Apr. 2012.
Designed 30+ covers, spreads, maps, and spot illustrations for various sections of newspaper. Other responsibilities include taking phone calls, making orders for tear sheets, and other office duties. Full time paid internship.
EDUCATION
Ringling College of Art and Design, BFA in Illustration, May 2011
Sandegren Scholarship, merit-based financial award recipient
President's List
Senior Thesis: Western-themed Fashion Design/Concept and Character Development
ART TECHNIQUES & COMPUTER SKILLS
7+ years of formal art training, including representational figurative painting/drawing. Proficient in both Mac and PC platforms using Adobe Creative Suite, namely Illustrator, Photoshop, Reader, and Acrobat.
Artist specializes in vector artwork.