Jobs

Employer: George Nelson & Co.

Title: Senior Designer

Country: United States

Notes: designed china and glassware, lighting fixtures, clocks, and tour bus interiors

Employer: Chrysler Automobile Project in the 1963 World's Fair

Title: Project Director

Country: delete

End Date: January 01, 1963

Employer: Sandgren & Murtha

Title: Environmental and Industrial Designer

Country: United States

Notes: clients included Dunk Donuts and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, ABC's "Eyewitness News" program, Shiseido Cosmetics

Employer: Pratt Institute

Title: Adjunct Professor Industrial Design (1995), Adjunct Associate Professor (1990)

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1979

Employer: Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)

Title: Adjunct Professor, Furniture Design

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 2001

Employer: Parsons School of Design

Title: Visiting Instructor, Department of Environmental Design

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1978

End Date: January 01, 1979

Employer: New York University

Title: Visiting Instructor, Department of Interior Design, Furniture Design

City: New York City

State: New York

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 1978

End Date: January 01, 1979

Collaborators

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Apprenticeships

No apprenticeships on record

Awards

Name: 2007 Rowena Reed Kostellow Award

Date Received: January 01, 2007

Exhibitions

Title: Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000

Description: Bard Graduate Center Museum and Gallery, Manhattan, an exhibition of work by 100 major women designers of this century

City: New York City

Title: Parson’s School of Design Faculty Exhibition

Start Date: January 01, 1979

Notable Projects

Title: Turbine Clock

Description: for George Nelson

Start Date: January 01, 1957

Title: Eye Clock

Description: for George Nelson

Start Date: January 01, 1958

Title: Dunkin' Donuts Colors

Description: for Sandgren and Murtha

Start Date: January 01, 1980

Notes: orange and pink colors inspired by DeRespinis' daughter

Education

Institution: St Lawrence University

Notes: attended for two years

Institution: Pratt Institute

Degree: Bachelor of Industrial Design

Licensing

No licenses on record

Professional Affiliations

Organization: Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)

Role: Faculty Advisor, IDSA Student Chapter, Pratt Institute

Start Date: January 01, 1993

End Date: January 01, 1997

Publications By

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Publications About

Title: Goddess in the Details: product design by women

Author: Erika Doering, Rachel Sivitzky, Rebecca Welz

Publisher: Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)

City: New York City

Date Published: January 01, 1994

Notes: published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by The Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions at Pratt Institute

Title: Wall clock (model no.2239), 1957-58, designed by Lucia Derespinis for George Nelson & Company, manufactured by Howard Miller Clock Company

Author: American Craft

Publication: American Craft

Volume: 61

Issue: 2

Page: 75

Date Published: January 01, 2001

Notes: April-May 2001.