Established in 1990 by Earl Gee and Fani Chung, Gee + Chung Design is an award-winning multidisciplinary brand communications firm based in San Francisco, creating intelligent, innovative, and compelling design solutions which provide strategic value for clients. The firm focuses upon the high technology, startup, and venture capital sectors—three of the Bay Area’s primary economic drivers. As a result, Gee + Chung Design has built an international reputation for creating successful branding, print, packaging, environmental, and interactive programs for many of Silicon Valley’s most influential companies including Adobe, Apple, Applied Materials, IBM, Oracle, National Semiconductor, Sun, and Symantec; enabling complex technology understandable, meaningful, and memorable to audiences. Other notable clients include the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Chronicle Books, Lucasfilm, Ltd., San Francisco Arts Commission, 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).
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 Typographic Arts, 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 AIGA Archives, ArtCenter College of Design Archives, and U.S. Library of Congress.
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, creating branding programs for Herman Miller, PG&E, and the Oakland Museum. He has been named in Graphic Design USA’s 50th Anniversary Survey as one of the 50 “Most Influential Graphic Designers Working Today” and one of its “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. Earl has served on the AIGA San Francisco board and was honored as a prestigious AIGA SF Fellow for his contribution to the profession. He has also been recognized as a Graphis Design Master for design excellence in his career. He has lectured at leading universities and design organizations across the country and served as a juror for major design competitions including Communication Arts, Creativity, Spark, Critique, STEP, Publish, Exhibitor, and Sappi Paper. Earl currently serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Design at San José State University, teaching foundation and upper division courses in typography and graphic design. He received his BFA with Distinction in Graphic Design/Packaging from ArtCenter College of Design, and was included in Design Impact: A History of ArtCenter 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 typography and graphic design at leading 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.