Hudson Kramer

Master's student in Product & Furniture Design at Kingston University, with 8 years of professional experience spanning interior design, visual merchandising, styling, and production design. Backed by a versatile background in customer-facing roles from front-of-house operations and retail to event communications, with a natural ability to energise any environment and leave a lasting positive impression.

Visual & Interior Designer at IKEA & INGKA (2023-08 – 2025-09)

Visual Merchandiser and Interior Designer for 3 Bay Area locations.

• Created and maintained visuals through devising, building, painting, and propping sets – Room settings, vignettes, media, non-sales areas, etc.
• Country-wide store planning and window displays through Revit.
• Executing effective market-relevant merchandising and marketing strategies and trend forecasting based on data.

Visual Merchandising & Customer Service at URBAN REMEDY INC (2020-01 – 2023-07)

• Daily visual merchandising of products around Bay Area stores to ensure sales.
• Leadership position involving training new employees and opening/closing stores.
• Anticipated customer needs and received continual positive feedback.
• Maintained detailed daily sales reports.

Digital & Social Media Marketing at The UC Theatre (2017-01 – 2018-05)

Spearheaded social media and digital marketing efforts that resulted in additional work with Ashkenaz Music Hall & Berkeley B-Side.

• Generated over 1.5 million views & 30k followers across TikTok & Instagram platforms.

FOH Operations & Customer Service at Various (2016-08 – 2025-08)

Worked across retail, coffee, and festival environments, providing FOH operations:

• Monday Bakery, Napa, CA / Molinari Caffe, Napa, CA / American Eagle, Napa, CA: Crafted beverages, provided customer service, and POS transactions that created returning customers.
• Outside Lands Festival, San Francisco, CA: Poor Boy Coffee & Shuggies Pizza at OSL Festival for several years, providing drinks and food along with FOH customer service & POS transactions.

Master of Arts in Product & Furniture Design – Kingston University (2025-09)

Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies – University of California, Berkeley (2019-08 – 2023-05)

Bachelor of Arts in Art & Design Practice – University of California, Berkeley (2019-08 – 2023-05)