2025 issue
This is the Playground.
This website is designed and coded by Hanna Shibata, a multidisciplinary designer and art director who specializes in communication and print.
Each sandboxes are some of my experimental projects done between 2024–2025, outside of professional creation.
About me
Hanna Shibata is a Multidisciplinary Designer and an Art Director specializing in brand communication and print. She has worked and studied in Tokyo, NYC, and Boston, now based in Honolulu.
After starting my career as a packaging designer in Tokyo, I expanded my role into branding design as an in-house creative, where I managed relations with internal and external stakeholders, building a creative team from scratch. To pursue my graduate studies at Pratt Institute, I left Tokyo and continued my career as an in-house Designer/Art Director in the United States since 2020.
I’m now taking time to expand my skill set and explore the digital realm of design.
This site was loosely sketched out with paper and pencil, tested out in Codepen, coded with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using VS Code, hosted on Github Pages, everything stored at Github.
Expertise
Art Direction / Brand Strategy / Package Design / Print Production / Typography / Comparative Analysis / Infographics / Design Thinking / UXUI / Editorial Design / Motion Design
Experience
- Freelance
- Art Director/Graphic Designer (2023–presesnt)
- Fathom Optics Inc.
- Lead Graphic Designer (2020–2022)
- Japan Natural Laboratories Co., Ltd.
- Head of Design (2013–2018)
Education
- Pratt Institute
- MFA in Communications Design (2020)
- Musashino Art University
- BA in Visual Communication Design (2010)
- Kapiʻolani Community College
- AS in New Media Arts Program, Interface Design (Expected graduation: 2025)