Andrea grew up in New York City going to museums, libraries and craft fairs with her artistic parents. After leaving New York's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts she moved to Boston to pursue her BFA in graphic design at Boston University. After university she stayed in Boston to work as a designer in the Department of Neighborhood Development within the City of Boston. Designing storefronts and branding small businesses gave her a chance to understand and explore Boston and its communities and how design could play a part in revitalizing the city. She worked with many different types of people--architects, interior designers, web designers, politicians, everyday people from the community--which led her to become interested in collaboration and environmental design. After six years of working in Boston she left for London to study for an MA in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. This newly emerging field looks at exploring narrative theory in the design of physical or virtual spaces.
Andrea also does many other things. She draws and doodles in her many sketchbooks, she reads compulsively (especially things about science, history and nature), she drinks inhuman amounts of coffee, is a big fan of chocolate and she was pretty awesome at pub quizzes in the States and is now trying her hand in the UK. She loves old bookstores that have a cat and antique shops that are dusty and unorganized. She thinks every meal could benefit from some extra spice. She loves to explore places, especially cities and learn about their different cultures and communities.
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