Graduated from Cleveland Institute of Art with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts. Majored in Industrial Design. Selected for the prestigious intern program at General Motors during junior year.

 

Hired by General Motors as their first female passenger-car designer working in the exterior design/styling department. Spent 3 1/2 years in GM's Advanced Buick and Production Cadillac design studios.

 

Recruited from General Motors by General Electric to provide design guidance in major appliance development, and Consumer Electronics.Hired by Gorham, a Division of Textron to become staff designer and then Product Manager of their Gift and Collectible division. Later brought to Burnes of Boston, the industry leading supplier of picture frames to manage their 8 person design studio.

 

Established Joan Klatil Creamer Design to provide a full service product design and development resource to the consumer gift, collectible and stationary arts market. She has been successful in this business endeavor for 15 years.

 

 

Current/former clients include-

Gift Market-

 

... .....Things Remembered .........

United Design...........

Partylite...........

Gorham

Lenox and Lenox Collections

Waterford Crystal

Tiffany & Co.

Mikasa

Tupperware

Oneida

Princess House

Louis Michael

M. W. Carr

Burnes of Boston

Newcor

Yamazaki Tableware

Noritake

House of Prill

 

Collectibles-

Lenox Collections

Danbury Mint

ChemArt Metal Etching

Precision Etching

International Etching

 

Stationary-

Atomix...........

A. T. Cross

BIC

Alcraft

Excel Rite

Timex

H. G. Wicker

 

Health Products-

C. R. Bard

 

 

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