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Biography
Ella Gold is an award-winning art director, graphic designer, and educator specializing in publication, identity, and print design with a focus on typographic systems.

Gold’s design studio is research-based and collaborative, engaging deeply with the content to create new and unexpected graphic ideas. She primarily works within arts and culture, helping to shape our shared visual experience.


Expertise
Book Design + Publishing
Print + Editorial Design
Branding, Strategy, Naming
Exhibition Graphics
Type Design + Lettering
Editing, Research, Writing
Workshops + Lectures


Contact
ellagold@gmail.com

@goldella

Select Clients and Collaborators
All Night Menu
Amon Carter Museum
Anthology Editions
Atelier Éditions
Bel Ami
CalArts
Castle Gallery
Commonwealth Projects
Folder Studio
The Getty
Hat & Beard Press
Human Resources Los Angeles
IN-FO.CO
Inventory Press
JOAN Los Angeles
Los Angeles Review of Books
NYRC
MIT Press
OR Books
Perron Roettinger
REDCAT
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
SFMOMA
X Artists’ Books
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Verso Books


Press and Recognition

AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Award for Thresholds 52: Disappearance (2024)


Studio Ella Gold feature in Slanted Magazine #35: Los Angeles (2020)


Teaching
Graduate Studio
Otis College of Art and Design

Visual Communication Design
Cal Poly Pomona

Typography II
Cal State University Los Angeles

Visiting Design Critic
Pepperdine University
Whittier College

Education
MFA, Graphic Design
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

BA, Fine Art, Art History
Reed College
Portland, OR