Jennifer Morla

Jennifer Morla
Born 1955
New York, NY
Awards Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award[1] (2017)
AIGA Medal [2](2010)
Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) (1998)
Website www.morladesign.com

Jennifer Morla (born 1955 in New York City, New York[3]) is the President and Creative Director of Morla Design, San Francisco, California and Creative Officer for Design Within Reach.[4]

Biography

Morla attended the University of Hartford in Connecticut before receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design in 1978 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts.[5]

She has been awarded the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum National Design Award[6] and the AIGA Medal.[7]

She founded Morla Design in 1984. Clients include The New York Times, Levi Strauss & Co., Apple Computer, Herman Miller, Stanford University, and Luna Textiles She has worked extensively with conceptual art venues designing identities, books and posters for The Mexican Museum, SculptureCenter, Capp Street Project, and New Langton Arts.

Since 1992 she has taught as an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts.[8]

Awards

Exhibitions & Collections

Permanent Collections


  • MOMA[11]
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[12]
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum[13]
  • Denver Art Museum
  • Library of Congress[14]

Solo Exhibitions


  • 2012 The Workshop Residence, San Francisco, CA The Workshop Residence: Jennifer Morla Artist in Residence
  • 2010 California College of the Arts, CCA, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Morla: AIGA Medalist
  • 1999 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Morla, Selections from the Permanent Collection
  • 1999 K Kimpton Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Jennifer Morla, Encaustic Works on Canvas
  • 1996 Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Morla: Bay Area Portfolio
  • 1994 DDD Design Gallery, Osaka, Japan Jennifer Morla

Group Exhibitions


Works in Publication

  • The Designer’s Dictionary of Color, Sean Adams[15]
  • Meggs' History of Graphic Design (5th Edition), Alston Purvis[16]
  • The Poster: 1000 Posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Sagmeister, Cees W. de Jong[17]
  • Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart[18]
  • Glimmer: How Design Can Change Your Life, Warren Berger[19]
  • i-D 2008
  • Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration, Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez[20]
  • Teaching Graphic Design, Steven Heller[21]
  • Graphic Design America 3, Jenny Sullivan[22]
  • The New York Times Magazine
  • Graphis Magazine[23]
  • Graphis Poster, Jennifer Morla forward and introduction[24]
  • Communication Arts Magazine[25]
  • Women in Graphic Design, Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer[26]
  • HOW 15 Masters of Design: Jennifer Morla
  • IDEA Magazine (Japan)
  • Linea Graphica (Italy)
  • A Diseño (Mexico)
  • Novum (Germany)

Sources

  1. Cooper Hewitt Communication Design Award
  2. AIGA medalist Morla Retrieved 2015-04-14.
  3. "Jennifer Morla". AIGA | the professional association for design. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  4. AIGA. "AIGA FELLOW: NAMED BY AIGA SAN FRANCISCO, 2008". Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  5. "Jennifer Morla". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  6. Cooper Hewitt Communication Design Award
  7. 1 2 AIGA medalist Morla
  8. CCA faculty Morla
  9. Cooper Hewitt Communication Design Award
  10. The AIGA Corporate Leadership Award
  11. Jennifer Morla at MoMa
  12. Jennifer Morla at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  13. Jennifer Morla at Smithsonian American Art Museum
  14. Jennifer Morla at Library of Congress
  15. The Designer's Dictionary of Color
  16. https://books.google.com/books/about/Meggs_History_of_Graphic_Design.html?id=1zL8CwAAQBAJ
  17. https://www.amazon.com/Posters-000-Toulouse-Lautrec-Sagmeister/dp/0810995883
  18. http://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/launching-imagination-stewart/M0073379301.html
  19. https://www.amazon.com/Glimmer-Design-Transform-Business-Maybe-ebook/dp/B0031TZ9QC
  20. https://www.amazon.com/Women-Design-Inspiration-Trailblazers-Groundbreakers/dp/B002RAR41O
  21. https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Graphic-Design-Offerings-Undergraduate/dp/1581153058
  22. http://www.number17.com/PressKit.pdf
  23. Jennifer Morla in Graphis
  24. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphis-Poster-1991-Martin-Pedersen/dp/3857093919
  25. http://www.commarts.com/Search.aspx?code=morla&c=True&ft=False&dt=i Jennifer Morla in Communication Arts Magazine
  26. https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-1890-2012-English-German/dp/3868591532

References

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