Karin Fong
# Karin Fong

Karin Fong is a Los Angeles-based Emmy-award winning director and designer. Fong is an originator of Imaginary Forces, which is a design studio and creative agency.

## Early life

Karin Fong was born in 1971 and had a childhood watching Sesame Street, which gave a significant impact as an artist. She was a kid who liked to draw and create her animations using stop-motion films. As she grew up, Fong graduated from Yale University with an art degree. During college, she made a project that led her to start her career in WGBH Public Television. Her first job at WGBH was animating for the PBS show "Where is the World Is Carmen Sandiego?"

## Career

### 1990s

Fong started to work with an agency called R/Greenberg Associates, which designed the titles for Superman, Alien, and Ghostbusters. In 1996, she became a founding member of a Hollywood and New York-based design studio Imaginary Forces(IF) which diverged from the West Coast division of R/Greenberg Associates. Working at Imaginary Forces, Fong met Joseph McGinty Nichol as her client.

### 2000s

Joseph McGinty Nichol suggested her a job as creative officer at his American production company, Wonderland Sound and Vision in 2001 and started to work more with him.

## Contributions

Karin Fong has contributed to various title designs for film and television.

* The Island of Dr.Moreau (1996)
* Mimic (1997)
* Dead Man on Campus (1998)
* Charlie's Angels (2000)
* Daredevil (2003)
* Hellboy (2004)
* Charlotte's Web (2006)
* Terminator: Salvation (2009)
* Boardwalk Empire (2010)
* Rubicon (2010)
* Black Sails (2014)
* Counterpart (2017)

## Awards and nominations

### Television Academy Awards

| Year | Nominated Work | Category | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2001 | Exxon Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's American Collect | Outstanding Main Title Design | Won |
| 2008 | Chuck | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
| 2010 | Human Target | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
| 2011 | Rubicon | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
| 2011 | Boardwalk Empire | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
| 2014 | Black Sails | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
| 2018 | Counterpart | Outstanding Main Title Design | Won |
| 2022 | Lisey's Story | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
| 2022 | Cowboy Bebop | Outstanding Main Title Design | Nominated |
