basia kurlender is a graphic designer, an illustrator, an art director, a sign painter, a lifelong new yorker, a friend to dogs, an aquarius, a chain stitch embroiderer, a muralist, a successful matchmaker, a Pratt grad, a loyal craigslist missed connections reader, and also a lot of other things.
projects
✳︎ Great Better Best ✳︎ is my studio practice :) certified by New York State as a Woman-Owned business!
✳︎ ✳︎ Fool’s Errand ✳︎ ✳︎ making & designing goods, incl. hand-tufted rugs, a ton of t-shirts, bumper stickers, & hand-cranked chainstitch pennants
✳︎ ✳︎ ✳︎ COLD EMAIL ✳︎ ✳︎ ✳︎ recording podcasts with Olive about the non-linear path of “professional development” in hopes of demystifying the design & illustration world for early-career creatives
✳︎ ✳︎ ✳︎ ✳︎ marbling ✳︎ ✳︎ ✳︎ ✳︎ writing songs, recording 800 voice memos, playing a show every 1-3 months
select clients
select agency + studio collaborators:
Mojo Supermarket ✳︎ BUCK ✳︎ Wieden + Kennedy ✳︎ Red Antler ✳︎ CONTINO ✳︎ Ologie ✳︎ WITHIN ✳︎ Burn&Broad ✳︎ Colossus ✳︎ Article Group ✳︎ Farewell ✳︎ Funeral ✳︎ Marine Lane ✳︎ Mirmade Productions ✳︎ Something Special Studios ✳︎ SITU ✳︎ Tandem ✳︎ Work-Order ✳︎ Block Party Films ✳︎ CMYK ✳︎ Colossal Media ✳︎ Noble Signs
press / features
︎ hotsingles.nyc sent out a short but telling personal interview, hilariously (& aptly) titled “25W Mets Fan Seeks Man To Meet At Citifield”
︎ “Preservation” was included in “Design Without Borders,” a Pratt Institute publication about the first five years of the School of Design
︎ Vice: a quote about the ubiquity of tufted rugs made it into “The Handmade Rug Scene is Booming, Thanks to TikTok”
︎ “SECURITY DEPOSIT” was the culmination of a digital artist residency at Picnic Collective in July 2020
︎ AIGA highlighted some of my undergraduate work in this “Student Spotlight” profile
︎ my friend, olive, and i spoke to Prattfolio and answered the question, “What Question Can You Not Stop Thinking About?"
︎ Forge Art Magazine published an artist profile
︎ Scully’s Digest asked a few questions about my practice
︎ Dead Ramones interviewed me about the intersections of skating & gender
︎ Various Small Flames premiered my basketball x birthday cake-themed music video (p.s. stream “wisdom teeth” by marbling)
︎ a really old & kind review of “Quarry’s Light,” an album i co-wrote, on Gold Flake Paint
︎ & a video of me presenting my thesis at AIGA’s Education Warmups