Type Thursday Buzz

Type Thursday began in 2014, is a monthly meeting for people who love letterforms across the globe. Being a volunteering designer at Type Thursday, San Francisco Sumangla designed six weekly promotional posts for their Instagram page to invite the guests for the event and to update the followers about upcoming events. As a designer, her idea was to learn new software techniques with every new post to make it look funky, dynamic, and eye-catchy. Due to covid, all personal events went online thus these posts created a buzz amongst the Type of geeks not only in San Francisco but around the world.

Sumangla is a multidisciplinary visual designer with 4+ years of experience holding an independent O1 Artist Visa for Extraordinary Ability with a keen interest in design technology and strategic design. Currently working for a design agency called Emotive Brand and also as a freelance social media designer for Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. She has also worked with multiple clients like IBM, Cogs & Marvel, Supermoon in the past. After pursuing he MFA in Graphic Design at the Maryland Institute College of Art she joined their graphic design team in 2018.

Graphis Platinum International Award, Wanda 3.0, Poster Annual, 2020
Graphis Silver International Award, Museum of Mystery, Design Annual, 2020
Communication Arts Student Showcase, Interactive Annual March/April Issue, 2020
World Illustration Award, Unight, Illustration Design, 2020
World Brand Design, Featured: Museum of Mystery, 2020
Neocha, Featured: Illusive Life, 2020
Morrre.dsgn, Featured: Nest, 2020
Graphic Design USA, Wanda 3.0, Graphic Design, 2019
AIGA Flux Award, Museum of Mystery, Branding, 2018
Packaging of the World, Featured: The Rubberband brand, 2018
Innovation Center for Design Excellence, Illusive Life, Motion Graphic Winner, 2018
Adobe Design Awards, Semi-Finalist, Museum of Mystery, Rubberband Brand, Moodu, 2018
MICA Travel Award, Mo-Cap Workshop, Netherlands, 2018
Open Ideo, Nominated for Final Review, 2018
Motion Graphic Winner (Gold Medal), ICDE, 2018