Biography
Matthew was born and raised in New York and attended the High School of Art and Design on 57th street in NYC with a major in arts and architecture. While being accepted to Harvard for design, he decided to freelance at age 19 and spent a number of years as art director in corporate communications in Tokyo. After returning from Japan Waldman worked in New York as an Associate Art Director at Mademoiselle magazine, Art Director at YAR Communications Inc, Creative Director at New York Zoom, and Creative Director of Reuters Global Communications Studio. In 2000 Matthew founded the design firm Berrymatch, which offers interdisciplinary design consulting to a variety of clients focusing on branding, print and web interactivity. He also works as an adjunct professor at Parson's the New School in New York, teaching a range of courses in product and graphic design, since 2002.
Matthew maintains a personal art project, The Fairly Labor Union. Using both sculpture and paintings, the project has exhibited in a number of prominent galleries in New York, Tokyo, and Great Britain. He has also participated in several other art shows in the United States, the UK and Japan including Tag the System and ArtStorm London in 2004, More Art Inaugural Exhibition, Piece of Peace Lego Exhibition in Japan, The Show Room NYC, and a solo exhibition at Stay Gold Gallery, NY.
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