BASAK ALTAN DESIGN



			Basak Altan grew up in Izmir, Turkey, where she attended the American Collegiate Institute. After graduating from Syracuse University School of Industrial Design in 1997, she spent the next four years creating brand-identity solutions for clients’ corporate office interiors and exhibition booths. Ms. Altan has been designing for an ever wider range of clients and project types, including home accessories, gift items, jewelry and furniture, for Pottery Barn, RedEnvelope, Nautica, Liz Claiborne, as well as private commissions. As a design director, she has led her design team, and pulled together off-shore vendors, merchants, and buyers to consistently bring high-quality product lines to market on time and on budget. Her aesthetic sense is simple, and modern, yet warm and evocative. Social justice and ecological sustainability remain an integral part of her design process, and she has volunteered many days sharing her design abilities to help individuals and communities in need.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE American Pacific Enterprises, Inc. San Francisco, CA Design Director, 10/05 - Present RedEnvelope Inc. San Francisco, CA Product Designer, 8/04 -10/05 Potterybarn-Williams Sonoma Inc. San Francisco, CA Product Designer, 2/02 - 8/04 Dodt Design Inc. San Francisco, CA Lighting Designer, 6/01 - 2/02 Gensler Inc. San Francisco, CA Interior Designer, 9/00 - 3/01 EcoHouse Berkeley, CA Design Coordinator, 4/00 - 9/00 Green Building Resource Center CEDA City Of Oakland, CA Design Researcher, 9/99 - 3/00 Gyroscope Inc. Oakland, CA Design Researcher, 6/99 - 9/99 CB Displays Chicago, IL Exhibit Designer, 1/99 - 5/99 Exhibitgroup-Gilstpur Inc. Chicago, IL Exhibit Designer, 5/98 - 8/98 Creative Dimensions Plainville, CT Exhibit Designer, 8/97 - 5/98 Product Logic Buffalo, NY Product Design Intern, 6/95 - 8/95			PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Syracuse University Bachelor of Industrial Design May 1997 AWARDS Honorary Scholarship with Full Tuition Syracuse University 1991-1997 International Architecture for Humanity Transitional Housing Competition Winner 1999 EXHIBITED DESIGNS AT Van Alen Institute, New York City Royal Institute of British Architects, London The French Institute of Architects, Paris USAID Head Quarters, Washington, DC. ICFF, New York City NeoCon 2001, Chicago WORK PUBLISHED IN Architects Journal Architecture Magazine Architectural Record Daily News Metropolis Van Alen Report Surface Magazine New York Times Home & Garden Turkuaz Magazine Open Architecture Network TECHNICAL SKILLS & CERTIFICATIONS 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD lllustrator, Photoshop, Quark Vellum, Freehand Retek Permaculture PRO BONO WORK EKOBA Organic Community Garden, Turkey Planned and conducted design workshop 2003 Philanthropy by Design, San Francisco, CA Designed the interior space of the Well project 2002