Jennifer Morla

Jennifer Morla is an American graphic designer and artist based San Francisco, California.

Education and early career

Jennifer studied conceptual art at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and received her BFA in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts. In the late 70s she was working as the in-house designer at Levi Strauss & Co. and at PBS Television, San Francisco. In 1984 she founded her own studio Morla Design in San Francisco. Clients include The New York Times, Levi Strauss & Co., Apple Computer, Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Herman Miller Inc., Stanford University, Gap and Luna Textiles She has worked extensively with conceptual art venues designing identities, books and posters for Sculpture Center, Capp Street Project, and New Langton Arts. Since 1992 she is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts.^[1] From 2006 to 2008 she joined Design Within Reach where she oversaw the design of all media as vice-president and design director.

Awards

• 2017 - Cooper Hewitt Communication Design Award ^[2]
• 2010 - AIGA Medal.^[3]
• 2008 - AIGA Corporate Leadership Award.^[4]
• 2008 - AIGA Fellowship Award

Examples of work

• 
  NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE COVER

Exhibitions

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

• 1999K 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

• Grand Palais, Paris
• Brandenburg Art Gallery, Berlin
• Museum of Art and Design, New York City
• Denver Art Museum, Denver
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
• K Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco

Permanent Collections

• MOMA^[5]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[6]
• Smithsonian American Art Museum^[7]
• Denver Art Museum
• Library of Congress^[8]

Published Works

• The Designer’s Dictionary of Color, Sean Adams^[9]
• Meggs' History of Graphic Design (5th Edition), Alston Purvis ^[10]
• The Poster: 1000 Posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Sagmeister, Cees W. de Jong ^[11]
• Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart^[12]
• Glimmer: How Design Can Change Your Life, Warren Berger ^[13]
• i-D 2008
• Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration, Armin Vit & Bryony Gomez ^[14]
• Teaching Graphic Design, Steven Heller^[15]
• Graphic Design America 3, Jenny Sullivan^[16]
• The New York Times Magazine
• Graphis Magazine^[17]
• Graphis Poster, Jennifer Morla forward and introduction ^[18]
• Communication Arts Magazine^[19]
• Women in Graphic Design, Gerda Breuer, Julia Meer^[20]
• HOW 15 Masters of Design: Jennifer Morla
• IDEA Magazine (Japan)
• Linea Graphica (Italy)
• A Diseño (Mexico)
• Novum (Germany)

Selected Affiliations

• AIGA National Board of Directors (1997-1999)
• SFMoMA Accessions Board for Architecture and Design (1995–present)

External links

• morladesign.com
• Jennifer Morla Designisms

Sources

1. ↑ CCA faculty Morla Retrieved 2015-04-14.
2. ↑ Cooper Hewitt Communication Design Award Retrieved 2017-06-08.
3. ↑ AIGA medalist Morla Retrieved 2015-04-14.
4. ↑ The AIGA Corporate Leadership Award Retrieved 2015-04-14.
5. ↑ Jennifer Morla at MoMa. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
6. ↑ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Retrieved 2015-04-14.
7. ↑ Jennifer Morla at Smithsonian American Art Museum Retrieved 2015-04-14.
8. ↑ http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/iuc2009005443 Jennifer Morla at Library of Congress
9. ↑ https://seanadams.design/as-author-1/
10. ↑ https://books.google.com/books/about/Meggs_History_of_Graphic_Design.html?id=1zL8CwAAQBAJ
11. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Posters-000-Toulouse-Lautrec-Sagmeister/dp/0810995883
12. ↑ http://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/launching-imagination-stewart/M0073379301.html
13. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Glimmer-Design-Transform-Business-Maybe-ebook/dp/B0031TZ9QC
14. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Women-Design-Inspiration-Trailblazers-Groundbreakers/dp/B002RAR41O
15. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Graphic-Design-Offerings-Undergraduate/dp/1581153058
16. ↑ http://www.number17.com/PressKit.pdf
17. ↑ http://www.graphis.com/archive/magazines/?p=160 Graphis, Issue 319, Jennifer Morla: Any Way, Shape, or Form, p 22
18. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphis-Poster-1991-Martin-Pedersen/dp/3857093919
19. ↑ http://www.commarts.com/Search.aspx?code=morla&c=True&ft=False&dt=i Jennifer Morla in Communication Arts Magazine
20. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Graphic-Design-1890-2012-English-German/dp/3868591532

References

• Graphis Poster Annual 2011, Morla Design awarded Graphis Poster Annual 2011 Gold
• CCA Graphic Design's Jennifer Morla Awarded High Honors with AIGA Medal, CCA News, May 17, 2010
• Q&A with Jennifer Morla at the Wayback Machine (archived July 19, 2011), Interview by Sean Adams, Step Inside Design, July/August 2006.
• The Establishment at the Wayback Machine (archived July 19, 2011), Interviews & Profiles by Emily Potts, Step Inside Design, Nov/Dec 2005.