Biography
Ella Gold is an 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.
Gold designs and publishes pieces of new writing on television at Episodes.
Forthcoming Publications
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Published by REDCAT and Getty Pacific Standard Time
Search Work: A Collective Inquiry into the Job Hunt
Edited by Rachel Meade Smith, Published by OR Books
Sheila Hicks: New Work
Co-published by SFMOMA, Colpa, and Rite Editions
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)
A New Look for LARB: A Conversation with Ella Gold, Los Angeles Review of Books (2023)
Studio Ella Gold, 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