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Courtney Utt is an award-winning visual designer, branding strategist and photographer based in San Francisco. For the past decade, she has designed books, CDs, DVDs, print periodicals and marketing materials for some of America's most influential publishers, including VIZ Media, Akashic Books, Asphodel LTD, PM Press and Zeek. Courtney holds a BA in Fine Art/Photography from UC Santa Cruz, and was raised in San Diego, California. In her spare time, she has travelled throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Courtney speaks some Spanish, and is currently learning Japanese.
Awards
2010 Venus Febriculosa, 50 Best Covers,
The Name of the Rose
2009 DRAWN! Favourite Comics and Art Books, GoGo Monster
2008 Batchelder Award, Brave Story
2008 PASS Award, From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black
Panther Robert Hillary King

NOMINATIONS
2012 Graphis Poster Annual, Juniper Networks, The 1st Year of the New Network
2011 Eisner Award, House of Five Leaves
2010 Eisner Award, Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka
2010 Spinetingler Magazine, Best Cover, I-5: A Novel of Crime, Transport, and Sex
2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, GoGo Monster
Publications
Alice Waters: It's not hard to wash a salad!, Apartamento Magazine, April 2011
Fotolog.book, Thames & Hudson, 2006
Don’t Think Just Shoot, Booth Clibborn Editions, 2003
We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, The Collected Interviews, Edited by Daniel Sinker. Akashic Books, 2001
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Work Experience
  • Volunteer Chair
    AIGA San Francisco // San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Art Direction, Design & Photography
    Uttwerk // San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Visual Designer / Senior Implementation Specialist
    Landor Associates // San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Art Director
    Souciant // Seattle, WA, USA
  • Design Consultant
    John McNeil Studio // Berkeley, CA, USA
  • Senior Designer
    VIZ Media // San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Designer
    Winning Directions // San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Designer
    Stormm Graphicworks // San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Designer
    Compton Research & Publishing // London, United Kingdom
  • Designer
    University of California Literary Press // Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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