Verena Michelitsch

         Verena Michelitsch is an independent art director and designer based in New York City and Vienna, Austria. She specializes in concepting and creating brand identities through art direction and graphic design.  
         Since 2018 she’s been the co-creative director of Gossamer magazine, a bi-annual monothematic print magazine. The goal with Gossamer is to bridge the gap between the cannabis world—with all its outdated stereotypes and tired branding—and the larger lifestyle and luxury space in a creative, elevated, and accessible way. For each issue the team is collaborating with a range of international writers, photographers and illustrators.
         Besides Verena’s work with Gossamer, she worked with an array of international clients in the field of fashion, art and technology including Airbnb, Apple, Nasa/JPL, Google, Bottega Veneta and the Smithsonian. 

         Verena Michelitsch is an independent art director and designer based in New York City and Vienna, Austria. She specializes in concepting and creating brand identities through art direction and graphic design.  
         Since 2018 she’s been the co-creative director of Gossamer magazine, a bi-annual monothematic print magazine. The goal with Gossamer is to bridge the gap between the cannabis world—with all its outdated stereotypes and tired branding—and the larger lifestyle and luxury space in a creative, elevated, and accessible way. For each issue the team is collaborating with a range of international writers, photographers and illustrators.
         Besides Verena’s work with Gossamer, she worked with an array of international clients in the field of fashion, art and technology including Airbnb, Apple, Nasa/JPL, Google, Bottega Veneta and the Smithsonian. 

I’m Verena Michelitsch, an independent designer and art director, originally from Austria, based in New York City. I specialize in conceptualizing and creating visual expressions spanning graphic design, art- and creative direction, illustration, editorial– and digital design. I’ve had the pleasure of working with an array of international clients including Apple, Nasa/JPL, Facebook, Bottega Veneta and The Smithsonian. I'm the co-creative director of Gossamer magazine, a bi-annual lifestyle print magazine about Cannabis and creative director of the Gossamer brand. 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Independent Design-& Art Director
NY, 2018–now

Design Director
Sid Lee, 
NY, 2014–16

Senior Designer
RoAndCo, 
NY, 2012–14

Design Intern
Sagmeister Inc.

NY, 2011

Founding Member & Art Director
En Garde, 
AT, 2008


STUDIOS & IN-HOUSE
FREELANCE

Airbnb
Apple
Google Creative Labs
Pentagram
Sagmeister Inc.
High Tide
Human NY
The Working Assembly

SELECT CLIENTS

Anna Sheffield
Bing Bang Jewelry
Bottega Veneta
Condé Nast
FInn Jewelry
Jumbo
Khiels
Gossamer
Google Creative Labs
sasha + lucca
Smithsonian National
Museum of the
American Indian
Studio Proba
Stone And Strand
Splendid Spoon
NASA JPL
Talsam
The New School
The Optimist
Tower 28
Overheard

SELECT ONLINE PRESS

AIGA Eye on Design
The Design Kids
Make Nice
Designsponge
Page Online
Design Kiosque
Trendland
Fast.Co Design
Under Consideration
Magculture
Itsnicethat
Passerbuys
She-Form
Fubiz
Woman.at 

SELECT PRINT PRESS

Soirée Graphique 8
Novum Magazin
Page Magazin
étapes:
Gestalten Los Logos
Hightone Good Idea
Victionary Gold + Silver
fast.co Magazine
Computer Arts Magazine
Choi’s Gallery
Box Südsteiermark Magazin

TALKS

Likeminds Festival  Panel
Fishkill, NY, September 2019

Shillington School of
Graphic Design
New York, NY, March 2019

FH Joanneum University of
Applied Arts
Graz, Austria, January 2019

Ortweinschule Graz, Austria,
December 2018

Live from OFFF Barcelona
Barcelona, May 2018

Live from 99U Conference
New York City, 2018

Designforum
Graz Austria, 2016

1971 Design Space
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2016

Ringling College of Art & Design,
Sarasota, FL, 2015

Let's Talk Design
Brooklyn, NY, 2014

COLLABORATORS

INQUIRIES

Please get in touch via e-mail for inquiries, requests or questions: studio@verenamichelitsch.com


IMPRINT

Website built with
Semplice.
Portfolio photography by
Joanna McClure,
Caroline Fayette, Yael
Malka, Tom Huveners,
Flora Maclean and
myself.

SOCIAL

ARCHIVE

Work archive on Behance.