about
basia kurlender is a graphic designer, an illustrator, a sign painter, a lifelong new yorker, a friend to dogs, an aquarius, a rug tufter, a successful matchmaker, a Pratt grad, a loyal craigslist missed connections reader, and also a lot of other things.
select clients
✳︎ Baby’s All Right ✳︎ Black Seed Bagels ✳︎ Boqueria ✳︎ Brooklyn Book Festival ✳︎ Colossal Media ✳︎ Finale ✳︎ Food IQ (Daniel Holzman & Matt Rodbard) ✳︎ many bands ✳︎ Marine Lane ✳︎ McDonald’s ✳︎ Milkweed Provisions ✳︎ Momofuku ✳︎ Noble Signs ✳︎ New York International Children’s Film Festival ✳︎ Select Aperitivo ✳︎ Something Special Studios ✳︎ Tandem ✳︎ The Shed ✳︎ Wax 9 Records ✳︎ Wieden+Kennedy ✳︎ my friends ✳︎ my enemies ✳︎ myself ✳︎
projects
✳︎ ✳︎ Cold Email ✳︎ ✳︎ recording podcasts 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 shows
press / features
︎ “Preservation” was written about in “Design Without Borders,” a Pratt Institute publication about the first five years of the School of Design
︎ Vice: “The Handmade Rug Scene is Booming, Thanks to TikTok”
︎ “SECURITY DEPOSIT” was the culmination of a digital artist residency at Picnic Collective, July 2020
︎ AIGA: “Student Spotlight” Profile
︎ Prattfolio: “What Question Can You Not Stop Thinking About?"
︎ Forge Art Magazine: Profile
︎ Scully’s Digest: Profile
︎ Dead Ramones: interview about skating & gender
︎ & a video of me presenting my thesis at AIGA’s Education Warmups
︎ Vice: “The Handmade Rug Scene is Booming, Thanks to TikTok”
︎ “SECURITY DEPOSIT” was the culmination of a digital artist residency at Picnic Collective, July 2020
︎ AIGA: “Student Spotlight” Profile
︎ Prattfolio: “What Question Can You Not Stop Thinking About?"
︎ Forge Art Magazine: Profile
︎ Scully’s Digest: Profile
︎ Dead Ramones: interview about skating & gender
︎ & a video of me presenting my thesis at AIGA’s Education Warmups