ABOUT

APRIL NEMETH

Designer, creative director, and founder working across strategy, brand, product, environment, and production.

Based in Los Angeles and the Ojai Valley, April leads The Studio of April Nemeth and its in-house brand, Korboose. Her Italian American heritage and training in Swiss visual design shape a practice that blends ethics and modern systems to build enduring brands and consciously made products.

April earned her BFA and MA in Visual Communication Design from Kent State University’s NASAD-accredited School of Visual Communication Design, where she studied graphic design, typography, illustration and photography. The program that shaped her approach is grounded in the Swiss / International Typographic Style and modernist principles.

April founded her studio in 2008 while building a 13-year corporate creative career at American Greetings and Papyrus. Beginning as a designer and advancing to design director, she led large-scale product, packaging, and brand launches across global mass retail. She operated the studio alongside that work until 2018, when it became her full-time focus.

Today, her studio works across disciplines, from identity and packaging to textile development, photography, hand-lettering, illustration, and production. With in-house manufacturing capabilities across screen printing, custom textiles, woodworking, and ceramics, the studio serves as a full-scale partner for conscious product development. Clients range from architects and founders to multibillion-dollar enterprises. Whether designing from the ground up or stepping in to scale, the studio supports design, manufacturing, wholesale and retail strategy, and new product introduction from concept through launch. We collaborate with founders and companies of all sizes, especially those rooted in sustainability, values, and social impact.
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For founders and businesses seeking this lens inside their own work, April offers strategic advisory across brand, product, production, customer experience, and sustainable growth, helping clarify what to build, what to refine, what to pause, and how to scale without compromising the standards that made the work worth growing.
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Korboose, the studio’s in-house brand, serves as both a living case study and design benchmark, illustrating what’s possible when story, design, and sustainable production align. Every product is created using the same systems and values the studio offers to its clients.
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April’s work has been featured in Vogue, Assouline, GRAY, Dwell, Camille Styles, and others.