Robert is an industrial design alumnus of the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. His design career has taken about as diverse a path as one could.
Some of the many industries he has worked in include jewelry, furniture, architecture, landscape, interiors, advertising, marketing, trade shows, restaurants, aerospace, seafood, attractions and water parks, national parks, casino, hotel and tourism, newspaper, museums, zoos, circus, construction, manufacturing, costume and mascot design, parade floats, shipping (seaport), export, retail, wholesale, web, e-commerce - whew! There are more, but you get the picture.
Currently Robert is Managing Director of The Global Best Awards, launching a new advertising competition opening for submissions in September, 2010. The Festival Week and Awards Events are slated to be held April 25-29, 2011 in Phuket, Thailand,
At the end of the 70s Robert was working as a freelance jewelry designer/consultant with many of the jewelry companies in Rhode Island and Massachussetts. One of those companies was Coro, in Providence. As the company was getting ready to close it's doors, Robert was able to salvage several ragged albums full of thousands of original sketches and design drawings dating from the 20s through the 70s.
Robert has scanned over a thousand of these drawings as hi resolution images and has compiled them onto a CD so that they would not be lost. They are a delight for any costume jewelry collector and a peek at the creativity behind the jewelry in your collection.
Robert has made the CDs available for $25.50 including shipping.