Zoe Danae Falliers is an architectural designer, graphic designer, photographer, and owner of VIDA Design.

VIDA Design produces environment that combine a humanistic blend of classic and modern, in a historic context.

As a graphic designer and photographer Danae has produced produced national ad campaigns and product lines for galleries in the Santa Fe area, and has had a national client base. She has taught design and art at the College of Santa Fe and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico where she directed a research center for art, design and technology. As an artist she holds an MFA from the University of Southern California, and completed post-graduate work at Art Center College of Design. She exhibits her photographic work at galleries and museums throughout the year.

Her new photographic work is concentrating on site-specific installations and murals for commericial and public art venues. This new imagery is printed in high-resolution, highly archival photo enamel - on steel, and on glass. It is a proprietary process only offered by one lab in the US. The panels can be rear mounted set off of the wall, in any combination (panels in plain color, appropriated imagery, renderings etc) can be incorporated as well. The projects relate specifically to the site (architecture), concept (food, health, style) and / or environment (natural or urban).

She is dedicated to the idea that art and design are critical to society, and that design creates and invites a dialogue that is at once modern and humanistic, of our time and timeless. We invent ourselves through design, with an altruistic hope in the future.

StudioToDo - Design for Science

Graphic Design Portfolio

RESUME

VIDA Design - January 2005 - present

VIDA Design develops, manages and designs all phases of modern / classic furniture design, historic residential renovations, remodels, professional staging, and photographic public and private art installations. As owner and designer responsibilities include all aspects of design including concept, creative collaboration, project management, production oversight, marketing, and installation. Recent press includes a full feature in Oct / Nov 2007 Western Interiors Magazine,5280 Magazine (Denver) The Santa Fean, Magazine, Phoenix Home and Garden, Santa Fe Trend, and the Santa Fe Reporter.

The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, New Mexico - January 1997 - present

Project Director and Installation Designer – Neuro-Esthetic Art Research (NEAR)

Working with Iraq war veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) to produce an original installation incorporating scientific imaging and personal photographic histories. In collaboration with the Santa Fe Art Institute. Residencies and exhibition planned for the 2009 season “Memory and Healing”

Co-Principal Investigator – The MIND Institute “The Neuroscience of Creativity”

Funded by the Templeton Foundation. July 2007 – July 2010

Directs art component of study including portfolio evaluation, subject and study group selection, and curates artists-in-residence participants. Develops additional grant proposals and presents at classes and conferences.

Associate Director  – Arts Technology Center (ATC) August 1999 – August 2005

Responsible for all aspects of programming for ATC, a research center focused on the creative interchange between art and technology. Dialogues with professors, artists, designers, scientists, arts organization, institutions and the private sector in the field of art, design, and technology. Projects developed, designed and funded include: “Cultural Practice, Virtual Style: Artists Residencies in High Performance Computing” funded by the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation; “LodeStar: Artists Projects in Digital Domed Theaters/Planetaria” funded by the Ford Foundation; and “The Digital Pueblo Project” funded by the National Science Foundation.

Adjunct Assistant Professor  - Art 1997 – present

College of Fine Arts – Department of Art and Art History, Electronic Arts; IFDM (Institute of Film and Digital Media) and University Honors Program.

Client and Collector lists, and references, available upon request.