OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.leilasingleton.com
Leila Singleton is an award-winning graphic designer and writer born in Fort Collins, Colorado. Educated at the prestigious Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), she graduated one of only two students honored with SCAD's Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design award.
Shortly after graduation, Leila joined Kelly Rizley Advertising & PR (KR) as Art Director; prior, she freelanced and was a design/marketing intern with the City of Fort Collins Utilities. During her tenure at KR, she also worked in MMG Worldwide's Colorado office as Art Director. 2008 marks Leila's 10th year freelancing.
Active beyond the nine-to-five, Leila's fine art, photography and design is regularly exhibited in group and solo shows, and a banner she designed for the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ (AIGA) Urban Forest Project was displayed in Times Square, NYC, in 2006. The banner was made into two, limited-edition tote bags by Jack Spade and sold to benefit students of the arts. In 2006 Leila also celebrated a winning entry in the worldwide ONE Condoms Design Contest -- her artwork and tagline is featured on ONE packaging, which hit the shelves of CVS Pharmacy in 2007. As part of her prize, Leila donated an allotment of 5,000 “charity” condoms to the International Medical Corps’ HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Gender-based Violence Program in the West African country of Liberia. Other honors include a poster design featured in Graphic Responses, the online component of the 15th Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition; publication of her logo designs in 2008's Big Book of Logos 5 and Really Good Logos Explained; a web banner accepted for rotation on the 'Typographica: A Journal of Typography' website; and top-ten rank two years in a row in the Jacksonville AIGA Portfolio Review.
Leila's specialty is print design, and she also does illustration, conceptual/strategic development, web design, sound and video editing, motion graphics, and CD-ROM/DVD design and development. She put many of these varied skills to use as Project Lead and Art Director on a high-profile project for Wyoming Travel and Tourism, which involved the design and delivery of over 30 interactive, touch-screen kiosks throughout the state in 2006. Leila enjoys the written word and often takes the helm as a copywriter, writing ad copy and headlines, as well as scripts for radio, television and video. She is a published, award-winning poet, receiving second place in her alma mater’s 25th anniversary poetry competition and enjoying publication in Wolverine Farm Publishing's 'Matter 10: Village' journal and the Atlanta-based 'CRUX: a Conversation in Words & Images / South Africa to South USA' anthology.
A member of the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club and Colorado Poets Association, Leila is involved in the design and local communities. She has made presentations and/or reviewed portfolios at Colorado State University and San Francisco AIGA Portfolio Day, as well as Poudre High and Lincoln Junior High schools in Fort Collins. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, Leila donated art to the Hurricane Poster Project, an online fundraiser for the American Red Cross. She also donates artwork to AIGA Colorado's annual Heart Art Auction.
Leila currently freelances as The Whole Package in San Francisco, California. When she gets the time, she likes to indulge in culinary experimentation; her cherry-almond pancakes are yummy and she cooks up a mean quesadilla.
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