Jennifer Morla

Jennifer Morla is president and creative director of Morla Design in San Francisco. She has been honored internationally for her ability to pair wit and sophistication on everything from packaging to branding to retail environments. With over 300 awards for excellence in graphic design, her work has been recognized by virtually every organization in the field of visual communication, as well as published extensively, most notably in the de facto book on design: The History of Graphic Design. She is the 2010 recipient of graphic design's most honored award, the AIGA Medal and has been the feature article in numerous magazines such as Graphis, Communication Arts, IDEA (Japan), and Novum (Germany).

In addition to being displayed at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington DC, the Museum of Art and Design in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Denver Art Museum, the Grand Palais in Paris, and the Brandenburg Art Gallery in Berlin, Morla’s work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, and the Library of Congress. SFMOMA has acquired over 40 pieces of her work for their permanent collection. Additionally, Morla has been honored with solo design exhibitions at SFMOMA and DDD Gallery in Japan.

In addition to teaching design at California College of the Arts since 1992, Morla is an elected member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), a renowned design organization based in Zurich. She lectures and judges internationally, is an AIGA Fellow, served on the National Board of AIGA, and has served on the Architecture and Design Accessions Board at SFMOMA since 1995.

Morla studied conceptual art at Hartford Art School/University of Hartford and received her undergraduate degree in graphic design from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.