CV TITTIN RINDE UPDATED OCTOBER 2012

Tittin Rinde
7 Bd des Nations, 06160 Juan les Pins, France PHONE: +33 (0)6 18 48 08 69 Website: Grey Pearl studio Art Blog:Backtracking slowly forward Email: tittin@rinde.com

Passionate and creative freelance designer always looking for new fields and collaborators. Offering a versatile experience from years of design work related to interiors, production, colour, presentations, collections, copy and visual art. Particular interest in designing, developing, and presenting collections of decorative consumer goods. Continuous learner with notable communication skills; enjoys collaborating with clients in tweaking visual communication like brochures, website content, sales letters and newsletters for better results. I design to make things look better. Design is a way of sharing believes.

ABOUT:
Im Tittin Rinde, a freelance designer, artist and writer. These fields are inseparable, included in the same resume.

Education: 1980 - 1984 Studies in fiber art and design at KHiO, Oslo, National Academy of the Arts in Norway, graduated with diploma in textile printing techniques. The curriculum I followed was aimed at fiber art, the design practice came from a trainee program I had the privilege to follow; at the silkscreen printshop; Runni Tekstiltrykk - learning the entire process for large scale screen printing by hand and semiautomatic machine.

Colour coded for distinction: Design Art Writing/Personal

Timeline of engagements/projects/occupations 2012 - Launching a jewellery collection. Creating Grey Pearl studio website. 2011 - 2012 Starting jewellery design, learning new skills from scratch. Writing a jewellery Newsletter. Coco Chains and several other collections. 2007 - 2010 Producing digital art prints. Learning encaustic. Undertaking several portrait commissions. Extensive writing - now food related.

A textile designer by degree, an artist by training with a passion for colour. Design & art are tools for expression and communication. Writing helps to wrap it up.

2007 - moving to Juan les Pins. Digital art, portraits and more writing. 2006 - started regular writing - art blogging Backtracking slowly forwards. 2003 - Teaching myself Photoshop, gradually getting back to work having regular model-drawing session with local colleges. 2002 - moving to France - Mostly a hands on mother for a good four years. 2001 Complete refurbishment of Hotel Residence, Trondheim Norway. A few months work of interior design 1998 2000 Teaching arts and crafts at Oslo Montessori School, secondary

Born in Norway, living in France, childhood in Switzerland, educated in Norway at KHiO, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo.

school (years 13-16). 1996 - Setting up art studio, Gradually less designer and more painter. New skills: Taking classes in portrait painting and paper making. 1989 - 1994 Having my three children. Changing work orientation to art. 1985 - 1991 Independent team partner at Norwegian architects: 'Yran & Storbraaten', specialising in cruise ship design. (New building/refurbishment). Responsible for colours and surfaces; following up factories, manufacturers and

Work experience: designing for interiors, textiles and interior related products, presentations, collection work and catalogs. Last on the list is jewellery design.

yards. Designing small series of carpets and fabrics in close cooperation with manufacturers. 1984 1998: Freelance design work from my one-woman design studio. Customers: Architects, interior decorators, private customers and factories; fiber or interior oriented, European and Norwegian as well as one in Japan. Services: Designs from my portfolio or help with collection development. Products: Fabric, wallpaper, wall-panels, carpets, soft furnishing products.

CV TITTIN RINDE UPDATED OCTOBER 2012

Tittin Rinde
7 Bd des Nations, 06160 Juan les Pins, France PHONE: +33 (0)6 18 48 08 69 Website: Grey Pearl studio Art Blog:Backtracking slowly forward Email: tittin@rinde.com

Design experience Developing designs, collections and colour ways for following products: Laminate panel collections for interiors Carpets, single designs and collections Home furnishings readymades, single design and collections Bedlinen, curtains and furnishing fabrics. Decorative Commissions examples:

ABOUT:
I have been self employed all my life, apart from a six months at Hie (Norwegian bedlinen factory), when I covered for a designer on maternity leave. Body of art work: Portrait. Digital collages, encaustic. See albums on art blog

Hand printed wall hangings - private customers. Decorative space dividers (wall hangings). (Hotel Continental Oslo, Norway.) Divider decorations and sun shelters for public spaces, (cruise ships). Wall hangings, curtains and floor mats for designer-furniture show, Oslo. Hand printed decorative textiles. Exhibition design for home furnishing shows. Exhibitions 1985 - 2001: Gule Huset, Asker, Norway. 2001 Tegneforbundet, Oslo, Norway. 2001 Stipendskerutstillingen, Oslo. 2000 Galleri BOA, Kirkeristen; Oslo, Norway. 1999 Galleri Nordstrand, Oslo, Norway. 1996 Forum Interioer Galleri, Oslo, Norway. 1986 SHKS Diploma Show, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo Norway. 1985

Colour code for distinction: Design Visual Art Writing/Personal Professional affiliations: NBK member (the national organisation for visual artists in Norway.) BOA member (the regional organisation for visual artists in Oslo.) 1985 - 1989 On the board of NTKD (former org. Norwegian textile designers).

Languages: Norwegian - fluent spoken and written English - fluent spoken and written French - good spoken level German - Good conversational level Skills: Illustration, drawing, printing Adobe Photoshop Aperture Iworks Pages

CV TITTIN RINDE

UPDATED OCTOBER 2012

Tittin Rinde
7 Bd des Nations, 06160 Juan les Pins, France PHONE: +33 (0)6 18 48 08 69 Website: Grey Pearl studio Art Blog:Backtracking slowly forward Email: tittin@rinde.com

Art work - in series Please note that the overlapping years are not by mistake but reflecting reality. One process tends to spark ideas for another line of work, hence the overlapping. Almost all my work, art as well as design, is done in series, like never ending stories.
2011 - 2012 Delft Dreams Digital collages printed on heavy art paper mounted on board and encased in encaustic. Several more jewellery collections.

QUOTES:
Im solution oriented out of necessity, but probably also because I dont like the word impossible.

2010 - 2011 The Coco Chain collection Jewellery collection 2009 - 2010 Trees Talk A collection of child drawings with texts about trees and scientists, philosophers and wild life enthusiasts. Self published in photo quality print. 2008 - 2010 Food, Feasts and Friends Manuscript for a food book. 2006 - 2007 Amnesia or Black holes Digital collage transfers dealing with the uncomfortable feeling of going blank and only discovering black holes. The layered collage supports the idea that even when we think our memories are stacked in neat layers, we can suddenly find our access to them is blocked. 2004 2005 This is Digital picture book about and with myself truth and untruth found in words, thoughts and memories that accompany our lives.

What I miss the most as an artist is the special energy I that comes from working with an enthusiastic team.

Because Im alone on job, I write a lot. Writing helps me understand what Im doing so I can do a better job and share my experience.

2003 - 2005 This Man Snippets of life scripts rendered in line and text. Acrylic, transfer and silkscreen on linen. More versions on matt board encased in encaustic wax technique. 2002 2004 Brother Mixed media. Mono prints series and collage series based on a random news photo. 5 collages and a series of 10 prints. 2002 200? White washed Recycling of portraits with the intention to test face recognition when the features are blurred and hardly visible. On hold.

Colour code for distinction: Design Art Writing/Personal

2000 2002 Party Mood Interpretations of Paul Getty with groupies Acrylic on plain plywood. Party Mood is constantly added to. Ongoing. 2001 2002 Corner-feelings Three dimensional portraits in paper pulp or large version on MDF in acrylic. Uncompleted 1996 2002 Faces and traces Friends and other models. Portraits in acrylic. These serve as an endless source for other projects, reusing faces. 1996 2001 'Blind-drawings' Male and female models. Portraits. Charcoal on paper. Clean line drawings that make up my art vocabulary, constantly finding their way into new projects.

Art mediums and skills: Charcoal drawings Paper making Acrylic painting Screen printing Encaustic medium Digital collaging Water colour

Norwegian models:
Lars, Tine, Niclas, Victoria, Lillian, Natalia, Finn, Gerd, Gerda, Trine, Elisabeth