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 David Schimmel, President/Creative Director David Schimmel's talent and business acumen go far beyond his years. Considered one of the top American graphic designers under 30, he has been a design director at Young & Rubicam, launched his own firm at the tender age of 23, worked with many of the most world's most sophisticated clients and earned multiple awards for his work. He graduated in 1998 from Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in art and business and was immediately hired by Y&R Advertising in a new position of design director. In this role he extended brand imagery from advertising to other target-directed media including collateral, corporate literature and packaging. David enhanced and integrated communications for top Y&R clients such as AT&T, Sony, DuPont, and Citibank. But David wanted to do more than just extend an existing image-he wanted to create the core brand essence itself. Thus, in 1999, And Partners was founded to provide branding, corporate identity, literature, and collateral for up-market consumer and professional-service companies. The firm has since enjoyed steady growth and recognition while expanding it's offerings into multi-media and environments. David serves on the advisory board of Portfolio Center in Atlanta, one of the nation's premier design schools, and teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. A standing member of the New York City Board of Education's Advisory Committee in the area of occupational education since 1999, David was honored for his dedication to the Virtual Enterprise program. He has been featured in industry-leading publications such as Communication Arts, Dynamic Graphics, Graphic Design USA, Graphis, HOW, I.D., PRINT and STEP Inside Design and was named among Graphic Design USA's "People to Watch" in 2003. In 2005, David was awarded a pencil from British Design and Art Direction, a Gold Pencil at the One Show and a gold ARC Award.  Bridget de Socio, Vice President, Executive Creative Director Bridget de Socio is a semiotician, the study of signs and symbols and their use and interpretation. Her understanding of language and science confirms her expertise in graphic commodification. Fueled by social purpose, Bridget is a noteworthy cultural trafficker, navigator of trends and investor of pop culture. With dual degrees in communication design and medicine, her skills have merged into a multi-disciplinary world that includes launching, repositioning, elevating and creating brands. Known internationally for her hip magazine cover design for Paper Magazine and eye-popping spreads for chic fashion houses like Vera Wang and Hermes to apparel brands Cone Denim and Levis. Bridget has set standards for innovation with creations that both challenge the viewer's assumptions and predict the future direction of advertising and design. Her unmistakable trademarks are the use of sexy photography, distinctive color palettes and creative typography. Some of her playful interpretation of typography and trademark sumptuous photography appears in the 20th Anniversary book entitled 20 Years of Style by Harper Collins, 2005. The first comprehensive book of her work, Exhibition, was published in 2002 by Graphis publishing. This book is teeming with her diverse range of work that includes categories in the furniture business, fashion, collecting, editorial, experimental and her signature retinal blasting color. Bridget recently completed a start up of a prestige business design offering for Saatchi&Saatchi Advertising in Shanghai, where she brought her passion for subcultures of all kinds to pioneer the east for emerging trends and new business models. Bridget was integral to winning the JCPenney business for their new brand campaign that will launch at the '07 Oscars. Prior to that she was responsible for an extensive brand elevation for La Mer, Estee Lauder's Crown Jewel skin care brand. Bridget comes to And Partners as VP, Executive Creative Director. In this capacity her focus is to help build a new department that focuses primarily on fashion, retail and upmarket consumer products. Her work has received international acclaim from The Art Directors Club, AIGA, ID Magazine, The Type Directors Club, Society of Publication Design, CA and Graphis. She has been nominated four times for a National Design Award, has been exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Design and Metaphor; 21st Century Design in the 20th Century and The Young Guns, to name a few.  Sarah Hans, VP, Business Development/Director of Client Relations Sarah has brokered many a successful marriage between clear, targeted messages and beautiful graphic design to the delight of both client and artist. She started her career in advertising more than 20 years ago and her ability to merge creativity with responsiveness soon turned her toward the business and project management side of communications. Using experience and intuition, Sarah identifies the clients that will benefit most from the talents of her team and learns everything she can about their communication needs. Fluent in the language of both business and design, she helps shape a shared vision of the challenge and solution in each engagement. Her results - identity programs, advertising campaigns, websites and print - routinely win awards in both design and industry competitions. Sarah's resume includes some of Manhattan's most prominent firms: Marsteller, Taylor & Ives, Pentagram, Arnold Saks Associates and Frankfurt Balkind and Hill Holliday. She has lead multiple assignments for clients such as AlliedSignal, Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Guy Carpenter, Hoffman-La Roche, International Paper, Knoll International, KPMG, The Luxury Marketing Council, MCI, Morgan Stanley, NASD, New York Life, NYSE, Pitney Bowes, SG Cowen, Siemens, '21' Club, 3M, VF Corporation, Wyeth and Xerox.  Kristen Nagy, Account Executive Kristen's natural abilities as a communicator enable her to establish and build relationships with ease. As an Account Executive for And Partners she maintains strong client relationships while managing projects thoroughly and effectively. She came to And Partners from Kooba handbags where she was a Sales Assistant who worked regularly with a variety of high-end retailers. Prior to that, Kristen worked at Fred Perry as the Account Director for North America. Kristen graduated from Elon University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in corporate communications. She spent a semester abroad in Continental Europe and another in London. She was a member of the national communications honors society, Lambda Pi Eta, which recognizes outstanding leaders in the communications field.  Lynelle Johnson, Associate Studio Manager
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