Karin Fong is a Los Angeles-based Emmy-award winning director and designer.[1] Fong is an originator of Imaginary Forces, which is a design studio and creative agency.[2]

Early life

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Karin Fong was born in 1971 and had a childhood watching Sesame Street, which gave a significant impact as an artist. She was a kid who liked to draw and create her animations using stop-motion films.[3] As she grew up, Fong graduated from Yale University with an art degree.[4] During college, she made a project that led her to start her career in WGBH Public Television.[3] Her first job at WGBH was animating for the PBS show "Where is the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"[5]

Career

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1990s

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Fong started to work with an agency called R/Greenberg Associates, which designed the titles for Superman, Alien, and Ghostbusters. In 1996, she became a founding member of a Hollywood and New York-based design studio Imaginary Forces(IF) which diverged from the West Coast division of R/Greenberg Associates.[3] Working at Imaginary Forces, Fong met Joseph McGinty Nichol as her client.

2000s

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Joseph McGinty Nichol suggested her a job as creative officer at his American production company, Wonderland Sound and Vision in 2001 and started to work more with him.[3]

Contributions

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Karin Fong has contributed to various title designs for film and television.[4]

Awards and nominations

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Television Academy Awards

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Year[1] Nominated Work Category Result
2001 Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collect Outstanding Main Title Design Won
2008 Chuck Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated
2010 Human Target Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated
2011 Rubicon Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated
2011 Boardwalk Empire Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated
2014 Black Sails Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated
2018 Counterpart Outstanding Main Title Design Won
2022 Lisey's Story Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated
2022 Cowboy Bebop Outstanding Main Title Design Nominated

References

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  1. ^ a b "Karin Fong". Television Academy. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  2. ^ "Karin Fong, Creative Director at Imaginary Forces". Imaginary Forces. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  3. ^ a b c d "SPOTLIGHT August 2020: Karin Fong, Master Title Sequence Designer – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS". Retrieved 2022-11-07.
  4. ^ a b "Karin Fong". www.artofthetitle.com. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  5. ^ "Karin Fong of Imaginary Forces on Main Titles and the Power of Less Literal Marketing". Muse by Clio. Retrieved 2022-11-28.