Born: 1965

Education: San Jose State; California Institute of the Arts

Currently resides: Los Angeles

Selected honors: Award of Distinction, International Design Annual Review; President, AIGA Los Angeles; Chair, AIGA National President’s Council; Fellow, Aspen Design Conference

Noreen Morioka is a partner at AdamsMorioka, a Los Angeles-based strategy and communications firm co-founded with Sean Adams in 1993. Described by the Los Angeles Times as among the “major influences of pop culture at the end of the century,” the duo possesses a design philosophy that blends “clarity, purity, and resonance.”

AdamsMorioka’s clients include abc, Gap, Old Navy, Frank Gehry Associates, Nickelodeon, Oxygen, Sundance, and USC.

AdamsMorioka has been globally recognized by every major competition and publication, including Communication Arts, AIGA, Graphis, and the New York Art Director’s Club. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art recently exhibited AdamsMorioka in a solo retrospective. In addition to SFMOMA’s permanent collection, the firm’s work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The New York Public Library; The Design Museum, London; the Southern California Institute of Architecture; and UCLA.

Noreen Morioka and Sean Adams have lectured throughout the world and were named to the id40 as among the forty most important people shaping design.