Leah Koransky Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

California, United States

Headlands Center for the Arts’ Graduate Fellowships provide meaningful support to recent, promising studio art MFA graduates, in partnership with esteemed Bay Area academic institutions. The program is unique in the country for addressing this critical juncture in an emerging artist’s career, providing opportunities for professional development and a chance to define their practice outside of the academic context.Graduate Fellows receive private studio space; chef-prepared meals; public presentation opportunities, including participation in a culminating curated exhibition. Graduate Fellows are active participants in Headlands peer-to-peer-driven creative community and benefit from engagement with local, national, and international artists participating in Headlands artists’ programs.

Remote

As a design lead, I partner with agencies, brands, and individuals to create powerful visual narratives across media. I love to simplify and amplify messages with meaning. A sampling of clients include: -San Francisco State University (SFSU) and SFSU Fine Arts Gallery -IDEO San Francisco, Design for Learning -SYPartners, San Francisco -Princeton Architectural Press -The Monacelli Press -Airbnb -Cole Haan -Independent film and photography professionals -Intermix -The Goethe-Institut -First Run Features -Oscilloscope Laboratories

San Francisco Bay Area

2023 awardee, Murphy & Cadogan graduate fine arts award and scholarship2023 recipient, Leo D. Stillwell graduate student scholarship

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, California

•Design and art direct visual communications for marketing •Conceptualize and visualize multi-channel awareness campaigns•Partner with engineering, XD, and editorial teams on in-product creative applications•Collaborate with visual and verbal brand leads, photographers, illustrators, and producers•Build cutting-edge institutional and category-specific knowledge (mainly travel, hospitality, and tech)

San Francisco Bay Area

Teach and develop class curriculum for the Intro to Graphic Design course in the extension program at CCA

San Francisco, California

•Lead communication design for specific projects within the Design for Education and Learning team•Collaborate with UX designers, writers, design researchers, and production leads to build out a new digital education platform•Define the underlying creative strategy and visual identity for the platform•Execute a suite of communication materials introducing the new platform to a broad range of stakeholders, from teachers to politicians to board members

San Francisco, Ca

• Strategize and create brand design for a wide range of clients including Accenture, Sony, ODC Dance, Humana, Suntory, GE, and Comcast• Partner with writers and strategists to create meaningful and engaging narratives and visuals in all formats, including print, digital, environmental, and experiential

New York, New York

With a focus on brand strategy and development, art direction, design and content creation, I created award-winning print and digital work including responsive websites, integrated social media campaigns, visual identities and brand guidelines, print collateral, digital assets, and brand stories.Clients include non-profit organizations The American Cancer Society and The League of American Bicyclists, architecture firm Workshop/APD, NYC real estate developers The Durst Corporation, RKF, and Extell, and food startup Hungryroot, recognized as one of Fast Company's most innovative companies of 2016.I collaborated closely with creative directors, client managers, production artists and art directors while managing projects from concept to completion.

New York, Ny

Laird + Partners is a leading New York-based creative agency specializing in fashion, lifestyle, and luxury branding and communications. As a graphic designer, I created global print, digital and out-of-home campaigns for fashion and luxury brands, working in close partnership with creative directors and production teams. I frequently assisted art directors on photo shoots, including working with Gentl + Hyers for still life and product shoots.

New York, Ny

As a junior designer, I assisted Michael Bierut and his team on print, branding, environmental, typographic, and publishing projects for Benetton, FIT, the Monacelli Press, Guitar Hero, Yale University, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Clients include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, and SFMOMA

BFA in Graphic Design (2008)

Projects include curating the show "New Work: Selections from the Permanent Collection," aiding staff in all phases of non-profit gallery administration including professional practices for art handling and exhibition, ensuring smooth running of day-to-day operations, and writing for the center's magazine PHOTOGRAPHYQuarterly

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Emphasis On Photography

Bfa, Graphic Design, High Honors

Amsterdam Design: Dutch Utopia

Interdisciplinary design and typography workshop studying Dutch design and culture, led by Mark Fox and Angie Wang. Studied with Warren.

Summer Study, Photography

Summer photography intensive

Painting, Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Studied Italian language, art history, painting, printmaking and graphic designStudy abroad program.

Bs, Fine Art, Liberal Arts

Senior thesis show in painting/printmaking at the Tang Museum Co-curator of the exhibition "Contemporary Narratives" at the Schick.