I turn complicated organizations into visual stories people remember.

Case studies

 

Get to know me

 

Hi there, I’m Kyle. I’m a design leader who believes every good visual starts as a good story.

Kyle Hemingway headshot

With over two decades of experience using storytelling to power visual communications of all shapes and sizes, I’ve been Principal Creative Strategist at Pegasystems, an in-house leader at MIT Technology Review, the Boch Center and Handel and Haydn Society, and cofounder and Creative Director of arts consultancy Opus Affair.

My design and photography has been featured in flagship Macy’s stores nationwide, on The Today Show, and in internationally released books, periodicals, and CD jackets—but I’m most proud to have work displayed in a restroom at Julius’ Bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. I once photographed a meet and greet with Mike Tyson and left with both my ears intact.

I’m a proud resident of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood and dad to Freddie Mercury, a very sweet but fierce chihuahua mix. I enjoy brutalist architecture, modal jazz, LGBTQ+ rights, loitering in museums, traveling to new places, watching bad reality television, Dorothy Parker, Truman Capote, and Paris.

 

Recognition

Pegasystems Greater Good solutions consulting award, 2024

The Webby Awards Two-time nominee, Podcasts–Technology and Social–News and Politics categories (MIT Technology Review), 2021

Society for News Design Award of Excellence, Redesigns, Overall Magazine category (MIT Technology Review), 2019

Bringing Music to Life for 200 Years Work included in exhibition curated by Tamar Agulian at the Boston Public Library Central Library, 2017

BostInno’s 50 on Fire Winner, Arts and Entertainment category (ArtWeek Boston), 2014

American Alliance of Museums First prize, Invitations greater than $750,000 category (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), 2013

New England Museum Association Honorable Mention, Invitations category (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum), 2013

The Next Generation II Work included in exhibition curated by Joseph Ketner at the Huret and Spector Gallery, 2009

The EVVY Awards Two-time nominee, New Media category, 2008

 

Beyond the portfolio

Thought leadership

Short videos on LinkedIn (as above) where I spout off about topics that are important to me

Watch the videos →

The ephemera edit

An ongoing archive of my cultural consumption

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Travelogues

Special projects documenting my travels

Tokyo 2026 →

London 2025 →

Paris 2024 →

 

Select freelance clients

BabsonArts at Babson College

Boston Pride

Boston Lyric Opera

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals

Historic New England

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

MCC Theater (Off-Broadway)

New York City Gay Men’s Chorus

Odyssey Opera

Public Art Dialogue

Suffolk University

 

I’m more fun on Bluesky