Featured below are examples of highly motivated and extremely focused Creative Design alumni who actively sough out and participated in paid freelance opportunities either during their senior year or following graduation. These ambitious entrepreneurial students cultivated and curated paid design opportunities through the following methods: Commission Design work, Freelance work, or Client Based Contract work.
Greggy Bazile '21 Nike, Color Design Intern
Greggy Bazile '21
Footwear Design Apprentice
@ New Balance
Jean Altidor '22 - Product Design Intern @ Tank Design
Attends Lesley University on a Urban Scholarship
Works Part Time
@ The Hive
Maxwell Berger '21 - UX Design Intern for 12 Weeks
@ Amazon's Seattle Headquarters
Attends Lesley University on a Full Ride Scholarship
Mike Benoit-Latour '21
Animator & Illustrator
Mike Benoit - Latour is a animator and an illustrator. Working in many mediums from traditional paper animations to digital animators, Mike creates compelling animations and illustrations.
Continued education @ The 2D Animation Workshop School in France.
Mollie began career at Comedy Central in New York City as a multi-platform designer.
After graduating from CRLS in 2014, Mollie pursued a degree in Visual Communications at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.
Mollie lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her wife and their two dogs, Pinto and Garbanzo.
From 2015 to March 2024, Mollie worked at BuzzFeed, where she served as a Design Director, leading a talented team of illustrators, designers, animators, and video editors in the advertising arm of the business.
Mollie Schafer - Schweig '14
Design Director
Paola de la Calla '14
(Laura Gonzalez)
Multidisciplinary Artist
Paola de la Calle is a Colombian-American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines home, identity, borders, through the use of textiles, printmaking, and sculpture.
In her practice, she combines photographs sourced from family albums and found images to mine the aesthetics of nostalgia and examine the socio-political relationship between the United States and Colombia.
She is a graduate of the New York Foundation of the Arts Immigrant Artist Program in 2019 and the lead artist for the Caravan for the Children Campaign as part of her residency with Galeria de la Raza in 2020. She’s a 2022-2023 KALA Fellowship Award recipient and previously an Artist-in-Residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Check out Paola de la Calla's website
After Lena graduated from CRLS she went to Brown University, where she studied biology and philosophy and took a few design classes from the neighboring Rhode Island School of Design. She then went to journalism school in New York City and discovered data visualization – which seemed like the perfect combination of information and design.
During her internship at the investigative newsroom ProPublica, she started pitching charts, graphics, and other data-driven stories, and soon was making them full time. She is now ProPublica’s Graphics Director, and lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and two toddlers.
Check out Lena's website to see her amazing work!
Lena Groeger '04
journalist, designer and developer
Creative Design Alumni are working in the following Creative Organizations or they are working in or own:
Communications / Marketing (in large & small businesses)
Advertising Agencies (in large and small agencies)
Freelancing
Teaching Design Educators
Owners Design Firms
Multidisciplinary Artists
Jean Altidor - Product Design Intern @ Tank Design
Greggy Bazile - Footwear Design Apprentice @ New Balance
Maxwell Berger - UX Design Intern @ Tank Design & Amazon Seattle
Callum Griffith - CEO Branding & UI/UX Design @ Composite
Callum's interview with CommArts for the Black Music Project
Noah Zibello - Maker, Designer, Artist. Head Builder/Maker Creation Studio @ RTO+P
Stephanie Walsh - Associate Art Director @ Barker NYC
Seamus Donaldson - Interactive Designer & Realtor @ Donaldson Realty Group
Mollie Shafer-Schweig - Design Director @ Buzzfeed
Angela McKenzie - UI/UX Lead Designer @ Boston University
Jean Coletta Hodges - Lead Product Designer at Rumpusworks
Melissa Grajeda - Art Teacher at Cambridge Public Schools
Lena Groeger - Graphics Director @ ProPublica
Nina Berg - Creative Director, Central Square Business Improvement District and Owner @ Flagg Street Studio
Nicholas Florez - Entrepreneur In Residence @ Pi-TaP
Alexandra Holland - Graphic Operator @ WHDH Channel 7 TV
Lauren Patrice - Junior Art Director @ Agency M
Julian Warburton - Graphic Designer @ Environment America
Jaryd Wallace - Graphic Designer @ The Fenway Group
Tyrell Moore - Printing & Marketing Advisory @ Staples
Jacob Brill-Weil - Architechural Designer @ Contextworkshop
Shaniece Cooper - Interior Design Assistant @ Su Casa Designs
Josh Brum - Graphic Designer @ Flagraphics
Nicole Watson - Digital Designer @ Riverbend Home
Laura Gonzalez - Multidisciple Artist @ Paolo de La Calle
Thaddeus Razdow - NAM Studio Designer @ Schneider Electric
Kerisha Tabow - Web Developer & Owner