Jennifer Kinon is an American graphic designer. She is a partner and co-founder of Champions Design, a design studio in New York City.
Biography
Kinon attended the
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...
where she received a dual degree in graphic design and English. After undergrad, she enrolled in the masters program Design/Designer as Author + Entrepreneur at the
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by Silas ...
(SVA), studying under
Steven Heller. After graduation, she worked for ''Graphis'' Magazine,
New York City's Olympic bid, and
Pentagram
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around ...
under partner
Michael Bierut
Michael Bierut (born 1957) is a graphic designer, design critic and educator, who has been a partner at design firm Pentagram since 1990. He designed the logo for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Early life and education
Michael B ...
.
She was the first graduate of SVA's program to join as faculty.
In 2010, Kinon founded the New York-based design firm Original Champions of Design (OCD) with partner
Bobby C. Martin Jr., whom she had met at SVA.
The company was renamed Champions Design in 2020. At Champions, she has spearheaded the redesign of the magazine ''
Ad Age
''Ad Age'' (known as ''Advertising Age'' until 2017) is a global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media. Its namesake magazine was started as a broadsheet newspaper in Chicago in 1930. ''Ad Age'' appears in ...
'', the
Girl Scouts rebrand, and the
WNBA rebrand. From 2010 to 2012 she served as President of
AIGA NY and she was an Emeritus Board member from 2019 to 2021.
In July 2015, Kinon took a leave of absence from Champions to become the design director of
Hillary Clinton's campaign for presidency. Kinon put together a team of designers to create a visual design system, which was unusual for campaign design utilizing the logo designed by Michael Bierut. She also incorporated elements of grassroots design, including the slogan #ImWithHer.
References
External links
Champions Design
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American graphic designers
American women graphic designers
School of Visual Arts alumni
School of Visual Arts faculty
University of Michigan alumni
{{Graphic-designer-stub