Donna Jean Pallotta

Donna Pallotta is currently the Creative Director, Manager and Senior Graphic Designer at Rockwell Group. She was also the multimedia designer at  Diller Scofidio + Renfro. She has designed and programmed the LED stairs for the Lincoln Center Promenade, and was the lead designer for Tommy Hilfiger’s e-commerce site.
She went to SVA for Graphic Design which she graduated in 1987 and Columbia for her Architecture MArch to learn. She uses her graphic design skills every day, including use of the Adobe Design suite. She also designs websites which requires knowledge of web design. Design tools she uses include: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, After Effects, OmniGraffle, UX Toolbox, HTML, CSS, AutoCad, Sketchup, 3D Studio Max, Final Cut Pro.

Rockwell Group Ventures is a project that I helped Donna design. It is the website for the launch of Rockwell and Cipolla’s venture company. I like the website for the minimalistic design and clean look.

Imagination Playground’s website is a project that Donna helped start and design, and I now manage all the content. There are flaws within this website because it is hosted through Ruby and Rubenstein has control over the main coding aspects of the site, but I recently redesigned the navigation menu and many of the pages so that it is easier to navigate through.

The Lincoln Center LED Stairs is an older project Donna worked on. I like it because it is well designed and has a “cool” or futuristic aspect to it. I think it adds a lot of interest to simple steps.