She worked on the redesign of Burger King, merchandising for Star Wars, and the positioning and branding of the NO MORE movement.
There she worked with brands including Pepsi, Gillette, Colgate, Kimberly-Clark, Nestlé, and the Campbell Soup Company. In 1995, Millman joined Sterling Brands in New York City, where she eventually became a partner, the president of the Design Division, and chief marketing officer. There is no other way." She also has said that no matter what job she had during the time period up until 1995, she "was always making art and writing." 1995-2016: Sterling Brands, Design Matters Of this process she has said, "It takes work to get the work you love.
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Millman has described this time in her career as a series of "experiments in rejection and failure." It took twelve years after graduating college for her to get her first design job at Sterling Brands in 1995. Millman would remain the creative director for twelve years total until 2005. Millman created the HOT 97 logo in 1994 and then redesigned it again in 1999. In 1993, Millman became the off-staff creative director of HOT 97 in New York City, where she worked with Emmis Broadcasting general manager Judy Ellis and Promotion Director Rocco Macri to turn the dance music radio station into a hip-hop radio station. A year later she took a job as the director of marketing at a real estate development company, but she hated it. She worked freelance and as a paste-up artist her first job out of college was in the design department of a cable magazine. She credits discovering her interest in design through this role where she had to layout and design the paper, finding it to be "truly remarkable, like magical." Career 1983-1995: Early career, Hot 97Īfter school Millman has said that she started working as a designer because it was her only marketable skill, including old-school layout drafting skills. During her years there, she wrote for the student newspaper, eventually becoming the arts and features editor her senior year. She majored in English with a minor in Russian literature, graduating in 1983. Millman studied at the University at Albany, SUNY for her undergraduate Bachelor of Arts degree.