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Feb-May 2026
Ideas on Purpose
Senior Designer (Contract)

Dec 2022-May 2025
Columbia University
Senior Designer

Aug 2014-Nov 2022
Columbia University
Graphic Designer

Oct 2011-Jul 2014
Dory Design
Graphic Designer

Contact

kyle.j.picone[at]gmail.com
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I am happy to connect about new opportunities, including full-time and contract-based employment opportunities. If you're just passing through and like my work or my story, feel free to connect via LinkedIn.

In addition to design work, I am available for consulting and lectures.

Background

I have a couple design origin stories but the internet-ready one would be creating banners for signatures on anime message boards. The only remarkable thing I have to show from that time in my life is the smoldering husk the family Compaq computer became when my cracked version of Photoshop went ahead and ruined everything.

In college, a serendipitous internship-related question brought me to the front door of the Marketing and Communications team, Huckleberry Finn-style. (It was a long road, down a big hill, in Atlanta heat.) There, under the tutelege of the Emory Creative Group, I learned the day-to-day of being a designer.

Since then, I have worked on many different types of projects, with clients in industry segments such as luxury, education, the arts, and several tech startups. My fulltime gig for several years had been the sole in-house designer at Columbia Business School, where I have worked on, or consulted on, everything from pens to paint colors, brochures to background colors, photography to full-scale video projects. (I am the esteemed Resident-Background-Actor-in-Residence in most brand videos.) At Columbia, I also had the pleasure of supporting the School’s relocation to the Manhattanville campus. At first I thought that there would be a “script” for such an endeavor. But relocating 3,000 people to two brand new buildings is a lot more chaotic (and exciting!) then it looks.

Most recently, I had the privilege of joining the capable team at Ideas on Purpose, which specializes in design communications concerning corporate and nonprofit sustainability and impact. I got to flex my creative muscle making many data-heavy graphics concerning carbon emissions, sustainable materials, and many other visuals detailing how a brand’s actions impact the physical world.

In my spare time I like film, television, reading, and video games, and going out with family and friends in New York. Unrelated: tell me what your favorite Final Fantasy game is. Never heard of it? Well then! I have a tale for you that begins with a world on the brink of destruction… —k