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]
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]
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.
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]
Karin Fong has contributed to various title designs for film and television. [4]
Year | Nominated Work | Category | Result |
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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 |
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