Lisa Sakai Quinley

Mission:

Carousel of Languages is an enchanting early childhood foreign language program providing for infants, toddlers, and young children. Our proprietary Carousel Teaching System emphasizes multi-sensory learning through verbal, visual, and tactile association in ten languages (English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Greek, and Hebrew).

As Head of Graphics I am in charge of Creating graphics for teaching material; assisting in developing the corporate identity of the program; working on branded teaching material for early childhood foreign language program in ten languages: producing publicity materials; designing visuals for mass email marketing for Constant Contact; aiding in digital marketing strategies.

The projects I manage range from reviewing and updating Brand Guidelines, organizational structure of intellectual property, and layout of the Teacher Manual; working with culturally diverse subject matter experts for materials in ten languages and early childhood education learning material development; designing Logical Thinking/Activity Books for over 30 themes available in the Carousel Teaching System® as well as Alphabet or Character Workbooks for all ten languages; promotional material such as flyers, brochures, wristbands, stationery, signage, and more; and managing relations with outside vendors and contractors such as illustrators, printers, IT experts, and other suppliers.

Carousel Classrooms

These photos of Carousel of Languages show how products I developed are used throughout the school. For example, I have designed the posters on the wall; the Logical Thinking Book, the bingo game set and flash cards, and the vocabulary sheets on the table/cabinet; and the laminated luggage tags for each basket.

Carousel Teaching System®

These images are an example of the products I designed for Carousel’s proprietary curriculum, Carousel Teaching System®. This is the Spanish version of the Fruit Theme and it is also available in an audio book format using iBooks.

Mass Media

Co-managed the strategy, content, and graphics on social media platforms, specifically Facebook and Instagram, which had been relatively under-used. Posting, response, and promotional advertisements were vital to revival of our online presence as well as maintaining brand cohesiveness.

I created animated lyrics for Carousel songs which are posted on our YouTube channel. Taking existing Carousel illustrations, I developed animated gifs which are often included in our email blasts to our customer base using the email marketing program, Constant Contact.

Products from Summer 2017

Double-sided printed, youth wristbands with Carousel logo on the outside and "hello" in our ten languages printed on the inside as a promotional product for our students.

Carousel Passports available in all languages as a cultural exploration project for students.

To-Scale Backdrop

Used in Carousel presentations, 2-dimensional design of the interior of Carousel classrooms. English language backdrop created for presentations in China.

Alphabet Posters

Designed the Hindi Consonants & Turkish Alphabet below to follow the same design as posters available in the first eight languages. Supplement to the Carousel of Languages Coloring Alphabet App.

Alphabet Workbooks

Alphabet Workbooks for children to learn letter writing, created for Alphabets in ten different languages (Italian, French, English, Spanish, Mandarin, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Hebrew, and Hindi). Worked with subject matter experts (teachers for each language). Shown below are examples from the Greek Alphabet Workbook, the Russian Alphabet Print & Script Workbooks, the Hebrew Consonants Workbook, and the Hindi Consonsants & Vowels Workbooks.