Big agency experience, boutique studio attention. Erika Ladanyi is a creative director with more than 25 years’ experience in design, branding, and marketing. Her clients include a wide range of organizations and businesses ranging from prestigious financial firms to the world’s largest local philanthropy. As a branding expert, Erika builds brands that are thoughtful, timeless, and scalable. As a designer, she creates eye-catching, innovative visuals that elevate messaging, spur action, and further business development goals. As a creative director, Erika provides a fully integrated, enterprise-wide approach to every project. Strategic thinking underpins everything. Erika’s client-focused design perspective brings her multidisciplinary experience and knowledge to your most challenging creative needs. Services offered: • Brand assessments • Brand design • Brand development • Brand refresh • Creative direction • Creative strategy • Graphic design • Illustration • Marketing strategic consulting • Mission support marketing • Online/offline design integration • Website creative analysis See additional samples of Erika's work at _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_…

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Big agency experience, boutique studio attention. Erika Ladanyi is a creative director with more than 25 years’ experience in design, branding, and marketing. Her clients include a wide range of organizations and businesses ranging from prestigious financial firms to the world’s largest local philanthropy. As a branding expert, Erika builds brands that are thoughtful, timeless, and scalable. As a designer, she creates eye-catching, innovative visuals that elevate messaging, spur action, and further business development goals. As a creative director, Erika provides a fully integrated, enterprise-wide approach to every project. Strategic thinking underpins everything. Erika’s client-focused design perspective brings her multidisciplinary experience and knowledge to your most challenging creative needs. Services offered: • Brand assessments • Brand design • Brand development • Brand refresh • Creative direction • Creative strategy • Graphic design • Illustration • Marketing strategic consulting • Mission support marketing • Online/offline design integration • Website creative analysis See additional samples of Erika's work at _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_…

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Big agency experience, boutique studio attention. Erika Ladanyi is a creative director with more than 25 years’ experience in design, branding, and marketing. Her clients include a wide range of organizations and businesses ranging from prestigious financial firms to the world’s largest local philanthropy.

As a branding expert, Erika builds brands that are thoughtful, timeless, and scalable. As a designer, she creates eye-catching, innovative visuals that elevate messaging, spur action, and further business development goals. As a creative director, Erika provides a fully integrated, enterprise-wide approach to every project.

Strategic thinking underpins everything. Erika’s client-focused
design perspective brings her multidisciplinary experience and knowledge to your most challenging creative needs.

Services offered:
• Brand assessments
• Brand design
• Brand development
• Brand refresh
• Creative direction
• Creative strategy
• Graphic design
• Illustration
• Marketing strategic consulting
• Mission support marketing
• Online/offline design integration
• Website creative analysis

See additional samples of Erika’s work at Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

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Language

English
Fluent
Hungarian
Advanced
French
Beginner

Work Experience

Freelance Creative Director and Designer at Self-employed
January 1, 2000 - November 12, 2025
Provided expert branding and design services to nonprofits, small businesses and corporations by conceptualizing and creating logos and branding assets, B2B/B2C marketing, and digital marketing, in addition to delivering creative direction and high-quality designs for publications, annual reports, illustrations, and infographics. Key projects included brand refreshes for Israel Cancer Research Fund, JewishColumbus, Hebrew Union College, and Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services.
Associate Design Director, Branding & Marketing at UJA–Federation of New York
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Integral part of leadership for the world’s largest local philanthropy’s creative team, overseeing approximately 10,000 unique pieces per year across campaign advertising, event marketing, direct mail, building signage, print and online media, and presentations; served as deputy to the Director of Creative Strategy and compliance manager for photo copyrights and sponsorship guidelines.
Senior Designer at UJA–Federation of New York
January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2014
Conceptualized and designed brochures, ads, newsletters, direct mail packages, website graphics, and promotional materials; trained marketing staff cross-functionally to drive collaboration and productivity; led invitation design gallery and established design suites for print and online media.

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design at Moore College of Art and Design
January 11, 2030 - November 12, 2025

Qualifications

Cambridge Who’s Who Professional of the Year, Graphic Design
January 11, 2030 - November 12, 2025
National Association of Professional Women, Woman of the Year
January 11, 2030 - November 12, 2025
Cambridge Who’s Who Publishers, Elite American Artists Certification of Recognition
January 11, 2030 - November 12, 2025

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Non-Profit Organization, Professional Services, Education, Other
    uniE621 Microsite and Sell Sheet for Luxury Property
    Outside of my design practice, I'm the design half of L&L Branding & Marketing. With my wordsmith partner, Richard H. Levey, who wrote the copy, we developed a microsite and sell sheet for this luxury property's sale. graphicdesigner webdesigner designer creativedirector…
    paper Logos and Divisional Branding Designed by Erika Ladanyi
    This pdf contains a selection of logo design and branding projects I've done over the years. The companies range from person projects (A Flaneur in New York) to nonprofits, communications, and publishing.…
    uniE621 A Sampling of Work Done For AFMDA
    This is a sampling of design work I did for American Friends of Magen David Adom, the American fundraising arm of Israel's national blood bank and emergency response organization. Top row: the cover of their magazine, Pulse; a logo for a giving society; a social media post; a one-pager about their Women's Giving Circle. Bottom row: three slides from a presentation and an email invitation to a lunch and learn event. graphicdesigner branding designer creativedirector…
    uniE621 Ad Campaign for Counseling Services
    This is an ad campaign I designed for Ohel's therapy services. Part of the ad campaign was targeted towards military specifically to help control PTSD as well as more general mental health services. graphicdesigner branding designer creativedirector…
    uniE621 The Flame Newsletter
    The Flame Newsletter featured the work of UJA-Federation of New York. In each issue, I created graphics to support the topic of the issue or the article. I looked for every opportunity to inject visual interest in a relevant way, such as the inset shaped in the silhouette of Africa that highlighted a specific project as part of the broader work done in Africa.…
    uniE621 University Research Center Case For Giving
    This case for giving featured the four anchors of this university's Cincinnati campus: an archive, a library of historic documents, a museum, and an academic press. The organization was using an arch motif throughout its website and other promotional materials, and that arch shape factored heavily in the layout.…
    uniE621 Library Museum Case For Giving
    This volume was created for a cultural institution housing rare books and manuscripts. Each page or spread featured examples of various collections. creativedirector designer…
    uniE621 Around The House Magazine Design
    I was the creative director and graphic designer for Around The House magazine for five years. These are some of the covers and inside spreads I created. I treated page numbers and section heads differently, and tried to create as much visual interest in copy treatment as possible, so that it wasn't just image-driven. designer typography…