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Behind the scenes with… Noël Claro of Nickelodeon

Noël Claro gives us a tour of her office at Nickelodeon.

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Noël Claro, Creative Director at Nickelodeon and Professor at Parsons The New School for Design

Noël Claro is a designer, art director, and professor at Parsons, The New School for Design. Her experience ranges from managing high-profile corporate projects at Nickelodeon to inspiring and mentoring small design teams and students at Parsons. Noël’s professional background is rooted in editorial design, advertising, promotion and creative branding. Her teaching experience covers a range subjects including design, illustration, typography, zines, merchandising and marketing. She’s not shy to rely on her stellar baked goods to provide inspiration and sustenance to her co-workers and students.

Noël is a judge for the Global Talent Search 2016


My favourite objects

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This photo contains my all-time favorite object in my office: the letters that don’t quite spell out my name (there’s no “L” here since my name is Noël). One of my oldest and dearest friends gave these painted aluminum letters to me as I was about to embark on my freelance career. That was in 1992 and they’ve made their way into every one of my offices since then. Clementine crates as storage bins is also a big thing in my office.

 

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Left to right: my marble collection, started by the director of Parsons Illustration just for me; a plaster squirrel that an old boyfriend found and repainted for me; string-wrapped dowels that were a test for a kite one of my sons made; tiny tree stump photo holders made from a branch of a tree we planted in front of our old house.

 

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Left to right: aluminum letters that spell out “five,” our family’s lucky number; ceramic llamas beautifully crafted by Rachel Levit, one of my former students; Anthropologie deer vase from one of my daughters; another beautifully crafted ceramic yoga girl done by Leah Goren, another former student of mine; a teeny tiny teardrop terrarium from a family friend.

 

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Shelves in my office containing old notebooks, blank notebooks, brushes, pencils, my mason jar pencil sharpener, fastening equipment and my prized milk cap collection (I change them regularly so I can always have new ones on display for inspiration).


Noël is part of the judging panel for the Global Talent Search 2016. As you can see from the pictures, she has a keen eye for all things aesthetic – your art might well catch her fancy!

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