Jennifer Bostic, Creative Director

Jennifer has practiced design in San Francisco and New York for over 19 years. Projects include Creative Direction of the 2010 TED Conference, and the 2009 HP interactive space at the Consumer Electronics Show. She developed the worldwide HP event and exhibit design system, and traveled the world training local designers on the new brand. Other clients include the XQ School Project, Burford Finance, La Colombe, Apple Computer, and Chronicle Books. She also works with several nonprofits including Global Giving and The Future Project. Jennifer’s work was featured at the San Francisco Museum of Design as part of an exhibition of the best designers in the Bay Area. Her work has been showcased in Communication Arts Magazine, Graphis, AIGA exhibitions, Print Magazine, and the Art Director’s Club Annual. She is also featured in the books ‘Women in Graphic Design’ and ‘Graphic Design America’. She was named by HOW Magazine as one of the ‘5 Hot Designers to Watch’.

Prior to Paper Plane, Jennifer worked as an Art Director at Stone Yamashita Partners in San Francisco. There, she completed projects for IBM and HP. She also has worked with Pentagram Design in New York and San Francisco, Landor Associates, and Cahan Associates. At Landor, she worked on the FedEx Identity System, and the Atlanta and Nagano Olympic Games. Jennifer studied at Arizona State University and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Graphic Design and a BA in Art History.

Jennifer has served on the jury of several design competitions in the US, and was a design instructor at the Academy of Art in San Francisco for 9 years.