Diana Boger is an award-winning graphic designer and art director based in the Twin Cities.
Her varied interests in history, culture, and nature have inspired designs that are clear and thoughtful in a fast-moving world.
Diana conceptualizes and designs periodicals, book covers, book interiors, catalogs, branding campaigns, and marketing materials. She currently specializes in creative solutions for the publishing industry.
Skills and Experience
Skills include photo styling, photo research, retouching, developing templates, and prepress; utilizing Adobe CC, MS Office software in a Mac or PC environment. Capabilities include data-intensive layouts, photo-driven narratives, and step-by-step instructions.
Diana’s design career began in the field of typography at Phil’s Photo in Washington DC. This company provided pre-computer headline type for ad agencies and clients such as National Geographic Society and Smithsonian magazines. Phil’s Photo is now known as Phil’s Fonts and Diana counts them as one of her clients.
Her news and feature page designs at Minnesota’s second-largest daily newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, have been praised for their originality and clarity. She also served as graphics director, managing the production of deadline graphics and news pages, for some of the biggest stories of our generation including the 9-11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan, the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the death of Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone.
She was the graphics director at the Pioneer Press during the newspaper’s exclusive coverage of the University of Minnesota basketball cheating scandal, which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in journalism for beat reporting.
Editors recognized and rewarded her design skills by putting her in charge of designing a wide variety of important daily and weekly sections: Eat (a restaurant and food guide), Great Outdoors (a travel and outdoor adventure section) and Arts and Entertainment. She designed special sections commemorating the opening of the new Minnesota Science Museum, the arrival of light rail in the Twin Cities and the renovation of the St. Paul Public Library.
Honors, Awards and Recognition
As a book designer, Diana’s work has received recognition from the Independent Book Publishers Association and Minnesota Book Awards. She has earned numerous honors from the Society of News Design, the Associated Press, and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Contact Diana
Please send her an email: info@dianaboger.com