Practice — Sophia Hanover

Sophia Hanover is a design director working across commerce, culture and space in New York.

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Sophia is a New York based design practitioner with a decade’s worth experience that spans both strategic design direction and execution for brand development, event and public placemaking. Whether through consulting for larger agencies or working directly with clients, she brings value to complex business problems and aesthetic challenges alike through deep analogical thinking, strong research skills and a keen visual instinct.

Sophia’s experience spans art direction for the international architectural lighting design firm, L’Observatoire International; where she supported the design team on a range of projects from RFP and proposal development to design execution for projects helmed by Frank Gehry, Steven Holl and Jean Nouvell. She co-founded a design studio, Thinkcraft, which privately consulted for a number of larger NY ad agencies and has led internal design teams on projects for Uber, Verizon and Meta. She also believes that good design and innovative experiences should exist in the broader public domain, and as such — also has experience researching and writing bid winning placemaking projects where she has worked with architecture firms, local city council and civic stakeholders. Her studio’s most recent public placemaking project in Australia took out three Australian Landscape Awards.

Sophia Has a BA. and MA. in Creative Media and Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Clients & Partners

Aeir

Article One Eyewear

Better World Fragrance House

Capitol Records

Chrome Hearts

Demon Footwear

Drake

DreamCrew

Epic Records

Giannis Antetokounmpo

H. Lorenzo

HIDDEN.NY

Houdini Sportswear

Houston Astros

Jordan Brand

Kobe Bryant

Lululemon

Meta

National Football League

Nike

NOCTA

Original Creative Agency

Practice

Sophia is a design director working across commerce, culture and space in New York.With over a decade’s worth experience that spans both strategic design direction and execution for brand development, event and public placemaking. Whether through consulting for larger agencies or working directly with clients, she brings value to complex business problems and aesthetic challenges alike through deep analogical thinking, strong research skills and a keen visual instinct. Whether through consulting for larger agencies or working directly with clients, she brings value to complex business problems and aesthetic challenges alike through deep analogical thinking, strong research skills and a keen visual instinct.

New Project & Business Enquiries:
info@sophiahanover.com