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E E L DESIGN
(EMMA) (ELIZABETH) (LEONE)

EMMA E. LEONE
emmaeleone@gmail.com

CONTENT

2020 - present

01. BRAND
02. ZINE
03. ZINE
04. ZINE
05. PROGRAMMING

Wild: Wildflower Rolling Papers
Fuck Off, Terf
AFK Magazine
A Piece of You
Spring Awakens

Emma Leone is a creative located in western Massachusetts focused on art, education, activism, and where these passions can intersect.

Education

Communication Design BFA
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
2024

Design and Visual Communications
Minuteman Vocational High School
2020

Employment

Graphic Designer, Marketing & Retail
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
(MASS MoCA)
2025 - present

Office Assistant / Student Designer
MassArt Art Museum (MAAM)
2023 - 2024

Teaching Assistant, Graphic Design 01
Communication Design Department, MassArt
2024

Museum Attendant
MassArt Art Museum (MAAM)
2022 - 2024

Gallery Crew / Art Handler
MassArt Art Museum (MAAM)
2023 - 2024

Skills

Adobe Suite
Illustrator
Photoshop
InDesign
Lightroom
After Effects
Premiere Pro
Figma
3D Craft
Print Production
Photography
Videography
DAMs
Video Captions
Art Handling
Vinyl Installation
Motion Graphics
Google Suite
Microsoft Suite
Asana

Exhibitions

All School Show:
Communication Design
MassArt, Curator
2024

Awards & Certifications

Academic Honors
2024

Adobe Photoshop Certification
2020

Adobe Illustrator Certification
2018

OSHA 10 Certification
2017

Community Service

St. Bernard Project (SBP)
Disaster Relief
San Juan, Puerto Rico
March 2019

St. Bernard Project (SBP)
Disaster Relief
New Orleans, Louisiana
March 2018

Last Updated 24.10.31

2020 - present

1. Wild: Wildflower Rolling Papers

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Cooper Nouveau by Oswald Cooper

Getai Grotesk by Sylvester Tan

Trade Gothic by Jackson Burke

There is an apparent lack of ecosystems in urban spaces for pollinators to thrive in. As a solution to the lack of wild vegitation, and the over abundant littering of cigarettes, I designed a brand and intervention that can be actualized through stoners. This creates a harmonic action, using someones persons bad littering habits to repopulate urban areas with patches of wildflowers.

2. Fuck Off, Terf

Risograph on letter paper, stitch bound, 5.5”x8.5”
Copies 2/2

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Mrs Eaves by Zuzana Licko

Mr Eaves by Zuzana Licko

This zine is based on an open letter sent to the Women’s Prize in the UK, a literary prize given to influential women writers. The subject of the letter was disapproving of the award given to Torrey Peters for her book “Detransition Baby,’ and the zine in turn dissects the arguments put forward by these anonymous writers based on real feminist theory provided by the Sociology Review’s text, “TERF wars: An Introduction”.

3. AFK Magazine

Glue bound magazine, 8.5”x11”
Copies 1/1

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Bookmania by Mark Simonson

Sprig Sans by Sabrina Nacmias and Maxime Gau

AFK magazine is inspired by how I returned to gaming as a hobby during the pandemic my main form of socialization was through playing online games with friends and I
have since spent a majority of socializing with
long distance friends this way.As we slowly enter a less social distanced world, socializing over a game is something that I still love to do with the people that
are much closer to me in distance, through tabletop games. I wanted to share this passion for gaming, and the gaming community through designing a magazine for that.

4. A Piece of You Grows Inside of Me

A Piece of You Grows Inside of Me, Zine, 4”x5”
Copies 6/6

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Tartuffo by Bouk Ra

Louise by Louise Fili

Piece of You Grows Inside of Me is a dedication to all the people who supported me through college, as well as an appreciation for the traits that you siphon from the people in you life you most love and adore. Inspired heavily by Jean Paul Sartre’s, “No Exit,” I wanted to prove that there is also heaven in other people, not just hell (only if you are in the right room of course). In this series of six I interviewed six of my closest confidants and compared our answers to each other, how we responded effected the color choices, and naturally, I included botanical imagery that represented what each person is to me, designed a zine made like a letter to send out into their world.

5. Spring Awakens

Took place:
April 17, 2024
MassArt Art Museum

Type Used:
MAAM House Fonts

Spring Awakens was a collaborative programming event at the MassArt Art Museum, lead by me and with assistance from the current Deputy Director of the museum. Based on the green thumb exhibition artist Freedom Baird built in the lobby, and based on spring just around the corner, I designed free after hours event for the Twilight at MAAM series where museum guests where encouraged to draw on their own plant pot, plant a plant, and take it home.