Marina Willer

Marina Willer is a graphic designer and filmmaker.

Biography

Willer studied graphic design at the Royal College of Art. Before joining Pentagram as a partner in 2012,[1] she was head creative director for Wolff Olins in London.[2]

During the course of her career, Willer has led the design of major identities schemes for Amnesty International, Tate, Southbank Centre, Serpentine Galleries, Nesta, Oxfam, Macmillan Cancer Support and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners among many others.[3][4][5][6] She led the rebrand of Battersea[7] and has designed exhibitions for the Design Museum[8] and the Barbican Centre.[9]

Willer's first feature film, Red Trees,[10] premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival[11] and was released worldwide by Netflix in 2018.[12] Willer has made several films for British architect Richard Rogers, including Exposed[13] – a film to introduce Rogers' exhibition at the Pompidou Centre – and Ethos,[5] which was screened at the Royal Academy of Arts.

She has been a D&AD judge,[14] an external examiner at the Royal College of Art[15] and is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.[16] She was named one of Creative Review's Creative Leaders 2017[3] and was inducted into Design Week's Hall of Fame in 2018.[17]

In 2021 Marina was made a Royal Designer for Industry[18] (RDI) by the Royal Society of Arts in London.[19]

References
  1. Burgoyne, Patrick (29 February 2012). "Marina Willer joins Pentagram".
  2. Montgomery, Angus (1 March 2012). "Marina Willer to become new Pentagram partner".
  3. "Marina Willer - Creative Review". 31 May 2017.
  4. McLaughlin, Aimée (8 February 2017). "Pentagram partner Marina Willer designs new identity for Nesta".
  5. Willer, Marina (June 11, 2015). "How to create a strong identity for your practice". Architects Journal.
  6. "Marina Willer". It's Nice That.
  7. McLaughlin, Aimée (16 April 2018). "Battersea Dogs & Cats Home reveals "honest" rebrand by Pentagram".
  8. "Pentagram "goes beyond cliché of masculinity" for Ferrari exhibition". 22 November 2017.
  9. McLaughlin, Aimée (16 November 2017). "Pentagram's comic-inspired identity for the Barbican's manga exhibition".
  10. Ghert-Zand, Renee. "Impressionistic visual essay 'Red Trees' reinvents Holocaust film genre". www.timesofisrael.com.
  11. Dawood, Sarah (27 April 2017). "Pentagram's Marina Willer reveals first screening of feature film".
  12. Cohn, Gabe (24 March 2018). "What's on TV Saturday: 'Hope & Fury' and the 'Kids' Choice Awards'". The New York Times.
  13. "AGI Open — Marina Willer". 2013.agi-open.com.
  14. "Marina Willer - D&AD Member Profile". www.dandad.org.
  15. Dawood, Sarah (28 June 2018). "Marina Willer: "Design should never be self-indulgent"".
  16. "Members". AGI.
  17. "10 people who made an impact on the design industry in 2017". 8 December 2017.
  18. "Current The RDI is the highest accolade for designers in the UK". The RSA. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
  19. Long, Molly (2021-11-25). "Marina Willer, Ilse Crawford among 2021 Royal Designers for Industry". Design Week. Retrieved 2021-11-26.
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