Established in 1990, Gee + Chung Design is an award-winning multidisciplinary brand communications firm based in San Francisco, creating intelligent, compelling and memorable design solutions which provide strategic value to clients. The firm enjoys the challenge of making complex new technologies understandable through innovative design strategies which engage audiences and enable clients to stand out from competition. The firm has built an international reputation for developing successful branding, print, packaging, environmental and interactive programs for leading clients including Apple, Adobe, National Semiconductor, IBM, Oracle, Lucasfilm, the Federal Reserve Bank, Chronicle Books and Stanford University.
Gee + Chung Design has been profiled in the Adobe Website Gallery, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Workflow Guide, Rockport Publishers Graphic Design: America 2, Graphis Designers USA 2, Graphis Branding USA 1 and 2, DIGIT (U.K.) and Designer's Workshop (Japan). The firm has been selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce to lead a program to promote international business development.
Gee + Chung Design has won multiple gold and silver awards from virtually every major design competition, including AIGA, Communication Arts, Graphis, I.D., Print, HOW, STEP, the One Show, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, Society of Publication Designers and Society for Environmental Graphic Design. The firm's work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, AIGA Archives, Art Center College of Design Archives and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Earl Gee
Partner + Creative Director
Earl was formerly a designer at Landor Associates in San Francisco, creating identity programs for Fortune 500 companies and senior designer at Mark Anderson Design in Palo Alto, designing award-winning branding programs for Herman Miller, PG&E and the Oakland Museum. Earl has been named as one of Graphic Design USA's "People to Watch in 2010" and one of only 50 U.S. graphic designers selected for the international edition of Who's Who in Graphic Design. He has served on a U.N.-sponsored design delegation touring China and has lectured at leading universities and design organizations across the country. He is a frequent juror for major design competitions including Communication Arts, Creativity, Critique, STEP, Publish, Exhibitor and Sappi Paper. He currently serves of the board of the San Francisco chapter of AIGA, the professional association for design. He received his BFA in graphic design with distinction from Art Center College of Design and was included in Design Impact: A History of Art Center College of Design.
Fani Chung
Partner + Creative Director
Fani began her career as a designer at Landor Associates in San Francisco, developing multinational branding systems and retail environments and Lawrence Bender & Associates in Palo Alto, creating award-winning annual reports and corporate communications for leading Silicon Valley technology firms. As a designer at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, she designed exhibition catalogs, posters and educational collateral materials for which she received recognition from the prestigious Hong Kong Designers Association. She has taught graphic design at universities in the U.S. and Hong Kong and served as a juror for several major design competitions including Applied Arts, Canada's leading visual communications magazine. She received her BFA in graphic design from the University of Washington, studied photography at UCLA and received her MFA in graphic design from Yale University, where she studied with design legends Alvin Eisenman, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, Armin Hoffman, Herbert Matter and Shigeo Fukuda.