Karin Fong Explained

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

Early life

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.[2] As she grew up, Fong graduated from Yale University with an art degree.[3] During college, she made a project that led her to start her career in WGBH Public Television. Her first job at WGBH was animating for the PBS show "Where is the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"[4]

Career

1990s

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. Working at Imaginary Forces, Fong met Joseph McGinty Nichol as her client.

2000s

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.

Contributions

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

Awards and nominations

Television Academy Awards

!Year[5] !Nominated Work!Category!Result
2001Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's American CollectOutstanding Main Title DesignWon
2008ChuckOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated
2010Human TargetOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated
2011RubiconOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated
2011Boardwalk EmpireOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated
2014Black SailsOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated
2018CounterpartOutstanding Main Title DesignWon
2022Lisey's StoryOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated
2022Cowboy BebopOutstanding Main Title DesignNominated

Notes and References

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