About | Pacific

Pacific is an internationally recognized creative studio based in New York. We work with commercial, cultural, and non-profit clients to develop brands, strategy, creative direction and publishing initiatives for global audiences. Our eponymous publishing imprint produces books on contemporary art, design and culture. Our catalogue is distributed globally by Artbook D.A.P.

Services

Branding

Art Direction
Branding & Identity
Creative Consulting
Creative Direction
Strategy

Print

Advertising
Editorial Design
Environmental Design
Packaging Design
Print Production
Publication Design
Publishing
Print Collateral

Digital

Website Design
Website Development
Social Media Design
Animation
Advertising
Editorial Design
Film/Video

Experiential

Environmental Design
Exhibition Design
Event Design
Experiential Design

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Founders

Elizabeth Karp-Evans

Elizabeth Karp-Evans is a founding partner and director of Pacific. She is deeply passionate about envisioning, building, and improving brands and communication systems across print and digital that function outside the confines of European design theory. She has worked in the field of contemporary art for two decades and has designed brands, exhibitions and publications for institutions globally. She is the former Director of Media, Communications and Content at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Elizabeth holds an MFA from the New School for Social Research. Recent speaking engagements include the US National Museum Publishing Seminar, the Glasgow School of Art, and the New Museum’s New Inc.

Adam Turnbull

Adam Turnbull is a founding partner and creative director of Pacific. He specializes in crafting 360 brands and campaigns across print, digital and experiential. His process includes research, strategy, creative direction, art direction, design and production (print and digital). Adam has developed brands for major architectural, placemaking, cultural projects as well as global brands throughout his career. His work has received awards and been recognized on a global level and in 2016 he published a book on lateral thinking with Penguin Random House.

Awards

The American Institute of Graphic Arts
New York Type Director's Club
Australian Graphic Design Association
Applied Arts Awards
META & Brooklyn Museum: Black Visionaries

Collections

Our design and publishing work is held in the following collections

MoMA
Whitney
Getty
NYPL
Princeton
RISD Fleet Library
SF MoMA
Baylor Library
Cleveland Institute of Art
Tisch Library Tufts University
Watson Library - Met Museum
Crystal Bridges
Indiana University Library
Clark Art Institute Library
The University of Kansas
Yale University Library
University of California Library, Berkeley
Cornell University Library
Smith College Library
Carnegie Mellon University - Hunt Library
University of British Columbia Library
The University of Kansas
Northwestern University Library
VCU Library
Birmingham Museum of Art Hanson Library

Artists

Talks & Lectures

Elizabeth Karp-Evans talks with Hauser & Wirth’s Ursula

Elizabeth Karp-Evans & Adam Turnbull Guest Lecture at Parsons School of Design

An Interview with Adam Turnbull & Elizabeth Karp-Evans in Harper’s Bazaar

Elizabeth Karp-Evans in Conversation with Alvaro Barrington at London Art Book Fair

Elizabeth Karp-Evans Guest Lecture at Glasco School of Art

Adam Turnbull in Conversation with Arthur Fournier and Peter Coffin at Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair

Adam Turnbull Guest Lecture at Fordham University

Adam Turnbull Lecture at Shillington School of Design

Press

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