Jessica Vergel has her AAS in Communication Design and is finishing her BFA in Packaging Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She works as a freelance designer for various brand identity and packaging design projects, and she teaches on side for the School of Art and Innovation. Jessica is also part of a creative CHamorru collective called Guma’ Gela’ which is a space to honor her ancestry from Guam.
Education
BFA – Packaging Design | Fashion Institute of Technology
August 2020 – May 2022
AAS – Communication Design Foundation | Fashion Institute of Technology
August 2018 – May 2020
Scholarships/Awards
Department Award Recipient in Communication Design Foundation 2YR AAS – 2020
Work History
Freelance Design
– Design ideation for Think Brands NYC, 2019
– Principal designer for AKA Dare to Love, under Ready366
– Designed and painted a mural at the USDA Plant Inspection Station office at the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, 2020
Pacificus Magazine, 2021
– Showcased and modeled garments for Pacificus Magazine’s 2021 Spring/Summer issue including Guma’ Gela’
The Journal of the National Academy of Design, 2020
– Illustrated watercolor paintings for Chamorro author and poet, Craig Santos Perez’s Essay Island of No Birdsong in NAD NOW, the journal of the National Academy of Design. (https://www.nadnowjournal.org/reviews/island-of-no-birdsong/)
London Pacific Fashion Week, 2019
– Opened the Emerging Designers show of London Pacific Fashion Week with Guma’ Gela’
Project 42: Molly Vaughan, 2018
– Contributor to Project 42: Molly Vaughan at the Seattle Art Museum. Designed and sewed fabric flowers for museum visitors to attach to the installation of Lorena Escalera Xtravaganza’s garment.
Portfolio
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