about
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 chainstitch embroiderer, a successful matchmaker, a Pratt grad, a loyal craigslist missed connections reader, and also a lot of other things.
projects
✳︎ 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 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
✳︎ Article Group ✳︎ Baby’s All Right ✳︎ Black Seed Bagels ✳︎ Block Party Films ✳︎ Boqueria ✳︎ Burn&Broad ✳︎ Box ✳︎ Brooklyn Book Festival ✳︎ Colossal Media ✳︎ Food IQ (Daniel Holzman & Matt Rodbard) ✳︎ The Juilliard School ✳︎ many bands ✳︎ Luna Park ✳︎ McDonald’s ✳︎ Marine Lane ✳︎ Medidata ✳︎ Milkweed Provisions ✳︎ Momofuku ✳︎ Nike Kids ✳︎ Noble Signs ✳︎ New York International Children’s Film Festival ✳︎ Red Antler ✳︎ Select Aperitivo ✳︎ Something Special Studios ✳︎ Tandem ✳︎ The Shed ✳︎ UBS ✳︎ Wax 9 ✳︎ Wieden+Kennedy ✳︎ Work-Order ✳︎ my friends ✳︎ my enemies ✳︎ myself ✳︎
contact
say hi @ basiakurlender(at)gmail(dot)com
@bshawww on instagram
newly-minted @number01yenta on twitter
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 written about 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
︎ 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
︎ & a video of me presenting my thesis at AIGA’s Education Warmups