Amanda Boesen
Design Director at Freelance Graphic Designer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAmanda Boesen is a Design Director based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience crafting meaningful visual and experiential solutions across museums, nonprofits, and commercial clients. She blends a journalist’s discipline with a designer’s eye—obsessed with typography, color, and user journeys—to create accessible, emotionally resonant experiences that drive engagement and revenue. At Oakland Museum she led exhibit design across 100k+ sq ft, contributing to revenue growth from $14.5M to $28.9M and consistently high Net Promoter Scores, and she now directs creative and publishing strategy at 826 Valencia. Comfortable as both a sole designer and a collaborative leader, she codifies systems and processes that scale teams and projects, from design systems to project management workflows. Committed to accessibility, diversity, and mentorship, she also brings hands-on freelance experience with nonprofits, government, and Fortune 500 clients. Amanda’s uncommon mix of editorial training and institutional exhibition expertise helps her translate complex missions into elegant, bite-sized experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Brainco: the Minneapolis School of Advertising, Design and Interactive StudiesBS, magna cum laude, Magazine Journalism, BS, magna cum laude, Magazine Journalism at Boston University
French, Sign languages, KoreanGithub contributions (2)
amandaxo/brokenpromises
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes in 4 days
adborden/amandaismynewbicycle
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 PRs in 1 day
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