Curriculum Vitae
BIO
Emily Darnell was born on the spring equinox of 1982. She grew up surrounded by the
trees and lakes of northern Minnesota in a house that her father designed and built.
Her work is deeply rooted in nostalgia for that time and place.
Because she is sentimental about almost everything and everyone she comes in contact
with, she has spent a good portion of her life collecting ephemera. She takes care
in categorizing, cataloging, and representing mementos from her life, that serve as
evidence of her experience.
Along with her interest in ephemera, Emily also studies handwriting analysis, traditional
folk skills and alternative living systems. The rest of her time is devoted to planning
her cross-country Bicycle Tour and making kaleidoscopes.
EDUCATION
Minneapolis College Of Art and Design
BFA / Graphic Design and Illustration
Minneapolis, MN
2000 to 2005
EMPLOYMENT
Designer / Illustrator
You Work For Them
Minnepolis, MN
2008 to present
Visual Display Artist
Bloomingdales
Boomington, MN
2007
Display Coordinator
Anthropologie
Minneapolis, MN
2005 to 2007
INTERNSHIPS
Surface Design Intern
Target Corportation
Minneapolis, MN
2005
Designer / Illustrator / Art Director
MCAD DesignWorks
Minneapolis, MN
2005
CLIENTS
Designer
Bluewater Residential Services
Duluth, MN
2008
Designer / Illustrator
Keri Beyer Inc.
Stillwater, MN
2007
Designer / Illustrator
Do It Green! Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
2007 to present
Designer / Illustrator
DGInvent!ve
Minneapolis, MN
2006
Designer
Well-Kept Organization & Design
Duluth, MN
2006 to present
Designer
Hope Home Healing
Duluth, MN
2006 to present
Apparel Designer
Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate
Waterbury, VT
2006
Graphic Designer / Illustrator
MN Record Show
Minneapolis, MN
2006
Designer / Illustrator / Art Director
Fraser
Minneapolis, MN
2005
Designer
Women's Art Institute
Minneapolis, MN
2005
Designer / Illustrator
MCAD Career Services
Minneapolis, MN
2005
COLLABORATION
Craft Night!
Minneapolis, MN
2006 to present
Mothership Collective
Minneapolis, MN
2006 to present
Happy-City Project
Minneapolis, MN
2005
EXHIBITION
Snap Shot Shanty
Art Shanty Projects
Plymouth, MN
2008
Ephemerality
Ephemeral Space
Minneapolis, MN
2007
Art of Design / The Future
Density Studios
Minneapolis, MN
2006
Happy-City Exhibition
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
2005
Students In Design Poster Exhibition
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
2004
Experimental Typography Workshop Poster Exhibition
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
2004
PUBLICATION (Print)
Issue No. 1: O.K. Collections or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Amount of Stuff I Collect
O.K. Periodicals
Netherlands
2008 Available Now!!
Vol. 1. Issue No. 3: Process vs. Progress / Art Shanty Insert
ARP! (Art Review & Preview)
Minneapolis, MN
2008
Issue No. 1 / On Collecting
Hello World!
Providence, RI
2007
PUBLICATION (Web)
Print & Pattern
United Kingdom
2007
The Serif
United States
2007
The Style Press
Barcelona / New York / Stockholm / Oslo
2007
PARTICIPATION
Volunteer Gardener
UrbanFarm
Minneapolis, MN
2008
Gallery Volunteer
The Soap Factory
Minneapolis, MN
2007
Students In Design Member
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
2004 to 2005
AWARDS
Alliss Scholarship
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2004 to 2005
Roy B. Justus Illustration Scholarship
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
2003 to 2005