Illustration
Logo design
Brand systems
Brand manuals/guidelines
Brand applications & Implementation
Brand management
Packaging
Packaging programs
Communications design
Tradeshow design
Product design
Pattern design & implementation
Retail programs
Graphic design
Publication design

Professional Education:

2009   
Master of Fine Arts, Illustration  
Hartford Art School
University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

2007  
Master of Arts, Illustration
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

1979
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Design with University Honors
Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

Membership:

Society of Illustrators, New York, NY

Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, CA

Q. Cassetti has many years of visual art experiences with illustration being the newest add to her fun. She has been privileged to work with a range of clients in mix of roles including corporate identity and branding, logo design, packaging, packaging systems, communications graphics, employee communications, illustration, product design, photography, signage, concept visualization and implementation.

Supporting her mission to raise the level of design, branding and packaging of local food producers and farmers in the Finger Lakes Region, Q. provides branding, design, and packaging systems to help market to bigger stores and to gain a brand presence.

Q. is married to Rob Cassetti— a fellow designer and creative. They have two amazing children and a rehomed airedale terrier. She is happily situated in New York State’s Finger Lakes in the best little town in the universe, Trumansburg, New York.

Clients include:

Corporate:
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY
Endo Pharmaceuticals, Malvern, PA
Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA
Quest Diagnostics, Secaucus, NJ
T. Rowe Price, Baltimore, MD

Cultural Institutions
Assembly House 150, Buffalo, NY
The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Great Camp Sagamore, Raquette Lake, NY
Hangar Theater, Ithaca, NY
Museum Association of New York, Albany, NY
The National Womens' Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY

U.S. Postal Service, Washington, DC.

Retail
IKEA, Sweden
Macy’s, New York, NY
Sunbeam Candles, Ithaca, NY
Sundrees, Trumansburg, NY

Luxury Goods, Beauty and FashionBath and Body Works, New York, NY
Estee Lauder, New York, NY
Origins Natural Resources, New York, NY
Galeries Lafayette. Paris, France
Jumby Beauty, New York, NY
Steuben Glass, New York, NY
Tiffany and Co., New York, NY

Education
Binghamton University, State University of New York
• The Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Cornell University
•The Baker Institute for Animal Health
•Cornell Feline Health Center
•The Cornell Veterinary College
•Cornell Cooperative Extension
Ithaca College
•Summer Music Academy
•Young Writers Workshop
Root, Salem, MA

Local Farming Community
Black Pearl Creamery, Trumansburg, NY
Bright Raven Farm and Apiary, Trumansburg, NY
Farmer Ground Flour, Trumansburg, NY
Finger Lakes Meat Project, Ithaca, NY
Great Local Foods Network, Green, NY
GoodLife Farm, Covert, NY
Honeybee Embassy, Jacksonville, NY
MacDonald Farm, Seneca Falls, NY
Main Street Market, Trumansburg, NY
New York Foods, New York, NY
The Piggery, Ithaca, NY
Pop Karma, New York, NY
Red Gate Grocer, Ithaca, NY
Regional Access, Ithaca, NY
Stonecat Cafe, Hector, NY
Trumansburg Farmers Market, Trumansburg, NY
Wide Awake Bakery, Trumansburg, NY

Local Cideries, Wineries, Distilleries and Breweries
Black Diamond Cider, Trumansburg, NY
Finger Lakes Cider Alliance, Trumansburg, NY
The Finger Lakes Cider House, Covert, NY
Forge Cellars, Hector, NY
Kite & String Cider, Covert, NY
Lakewood Vineyards, Watkins Glen, NY
Myer Farm Distillery, Ovid, NY
Roosterfish Brewing, Watkins Glen, NY
Redbyrd Orchard Cider, Trumansburg, NY

Editorial
3x3 Magazine
Creative Quarterly
Edible Finger Lakes Magazine
The New Yorker Magazine
The Wall Street Journal--Europe

Recent Exhibitions, Juried Exhibitions and Shows:

2017 Exhibition:
"Q Cassetti: Love and Resistance"
 Exhibit A Contemporary Gallery
Corning, NY May-August, 2017

Juried Exhibitions and Shows:
3x3 Magazine: 2016 2012,2011.2010, 2008
Creative Quarterly: 49, 43,42, 41,35,34,31,28,26
Communication Arts Magazine 50
How Magazine
Illustration West: 54,50, 49,48 (Silver Medal/Garden of Eden),47,46
Print Regional: 2013
Society of Illustrators Annual: 57, 56,53,52,51,50

2012
Guest Artist
Corning Museum of Glass, GlassLab, Governors Island, NY