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Kyle Thomas Hemingway is an art director and storyteller.
An award-winning design nerd with over a decade of experience in design and marketing live events and the arts.
I’m even
more fun
on
Instagram
An award-winning design nerd with over a decade of experience in design and marketing live events and the arts.
MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 promotions
Bridge Repertory Theater branding
Boston Baroque 2017/18 Season promotions
Boston Symphony Orchestra projection design
Handel and Haydn Society 2013/14 Season promotions
EmTech MIT conference branding
ArtWeek Boston branding
Theater, opera, and music posters
Photography
How the truth was murdered online
The coronavirus responders
In Machines We Trust: A podcast about the automation of everything
10 tips for how to talk to conspiracy theorists and still be kind
TikTok teens and K-pop stans don’t belong to the “resistance”
MIT Technology Review: The innovation issue
How to protect yourself online from misinformation right now
MIT Technology Review: The coronavirus issue
MIT Technology Review: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2020
Supporting artists in quarantine
What I learned from studying billions of words of online fan fiction
China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research
Kyle Thomas Hemingway (he/him/his) is a Boston-based art director and storyteller. He is the Senior designer for Marketing and Events of MIT’s media company, MIT Technology Review, where he oversees all visual communication in support of corporate brand, subscription, conference, and custom publishing efforts.
His print work has been featured nationwide in flagship Macy’s stores, coffee table books, as well as on NBC’s The Today Show. His photography has been featured in a number of domestic and international books and periodicals as well as internationally released CD booklets for the Handel and Haydn Society.
He’s a fan of brutalist architecture, modal jazz, LGBTQ+ rights, interwar European history, and garbage reality television.
Relevant experience
Senior designer, Marketing and events
MIT Technology Review
Since July 2018
Creative director / Co-founder
Opus Affair Agency
March 2015 – July 2018
Design and production manager
Boch Center (formerly Citi Performing Arts Center, Wang Center for the Performing Arts)
March 2013 – March 2015
Creative services manager
Handel and Haydn Society
December 2009 – March 2013
Creative services associate
Emerson College Office of Marketing
July 2009 – September 2009 (Contract position)
Select clients
Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Suffolk University, BabsonArts, Pyle Rome Ehrenberg PC, Public Art Dialogue, Boston Philharmonic, Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Education
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Arts, Visual and media arts, Emphasis in New media
Minor emphases, Art history and Performance studies
Technology and skills
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
After Effects
Premiere
Media Encoder
Acrobat
Microsoft Office suite
Wordpress
Hubspot
Mailchimp
Unbounce
Intermediate HTML/CSS
Photography
Inbound/content marketing
Video production and editing
Accolades
Society for News Design
Award of Excellence in the category of Redesigns, Overall Magazine, 2019
BostInno 50 on Fire
Winner in the category of Arts and Entertainment (ArtWeek Boston), 2014
American Alliance Of Museums
First prize, Invitations greater than $750,000, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013
New England Museum Association
Honorable Mention in Invitations, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2013
The Next Generation II
Group show curated by Joseph Ketner at the Huret and Spector Gallery, Spring 2009
The EVVY Awards
Two-time nominee, New Media Category, 2008