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 product brand, Korboose. Her Italian American heritage and training in Swiss visual design shape a practice grounded in clarity, authorship, material understanding, and the ability to carry ideas through execution.

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, The Studio works across strategy, creative direction, brand systems, product development, packaging, photography, spatial direction, production, and launch. The Studio works with founders, architects, hospitality teams, and multibillion-dollar enterprises.

A defining part of that practice is April’s manufacturing expertise: developing production systems, identifying and training specialist partners, and carrying design, material, construction, and quality standards through sampling and delivery. Through The Studio and Korboose, she leads development and production from concept through execution, translating processes that require skilled handwork into repeatable systems without compromising the original design or product quality.
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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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Founded as Little Korboose in 2008, Korboose is April’s independent product brand and The Studio’s in-house brand. She has built and led the business across direct sales, wholesale, national retail, trade, hospitality, and licensing.
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April’s work has been featured in Vogue, GRAY, Dwell, Camille Styles, and others. Her photography was selected for Assouline’s coffee table book, Wine & Travel United States of America.