Christopher T. Fong | Creative Director & Visual Storyteller

Christopher T. Fong is a creative director in the Washington, D.C. area with 20-plus years of art direction, design production, and strategic portfolio management experience in content media and experiential marketing.

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Chris is the Creative Director of the Allbritton Journalism Institute, a nonprofit backed by a $20 million grant from the founding publisher of POLITICO and Protocol. Along with a group of veteran journalists, AJI trains a new generation of journalists through a two-year fellowship about covering government and politics for its non-partisan publication, NOTUS. He oversees the organization's brand, creative editorial, and product development, while teaching visual storytelling.


He also co-created the We Are Bruce Lee: Under the Sky, One Family exhibit, which opened in April 2022 at the Chinese Historical Society of America in San Francisco. Visitors will learn about the extraordinary life and cultural legacy of the iconic Asian American actor, Bruce Lee, through personal letters, artifacts, photography, and mixed-media activations.


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Allbritton Journalism Institute

Creative Director

August 2023 – Current

Washington, D.C.


Develop and manage the creative and strategic operations for the journalism education non-profit and its digital publication, NOTUS, including teaching visual storytelling to the next generation of journalists.

Protocol Media

Creative Director

May 2021 – December 2022

Remote


Managed creative development and newsroom operations with both editorial and business teams at the digital media outlet. Oversaw coverage presentations, editorial product development (website, newsletters, dashboards), marketing campaigns, and virtual/live events from concept to delivery.

Chinese Historical Society of America

We Are Bruce Lee: Under the Sky, One Family

Co-Creator & Creative Director

June 2020 – April 2022

Remote


Co-created and designed the "We Are Bruce Lee" exhibition and its micro-brand identity for a San Francisco Chinatown museum. Guided both museum leadership and project team through exhibit ideation, narrative development, artifact curation, fabrication/build, and marketing strategies.

Freeman

Environmental Graphic Designer and Art Director

Contracted through 24 Seven Inc. June 2019 – March 2020

Seattle, WA


Elevated to art direction duties to oversee production of physical and digital design deliverables for their client's conferences and events. Revised the agency's content design program to facilitate consistent brand storytelling and marketing language.

Callisto Media

Art Director

December 2017 – August 2018

Emeryville, CA


Directed project teams of book compositors/designers, illustrators, photographers, and image retouchers to produce cookbooks and lifestyle books. Participated with authors and marketing team to promote its products across social.


Art and photo directed the bestselling cookbook, Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads by Bonnie Ohara of Alchemy Bread in Modesto, CA. And revised their all-time bestselling cookbook, The Instant Pot Electric Pressure Cookbook: Easy Recipes for Fast & Healthy Meals as a hardcover for Barnes and Nobles.

San Francisco Chronicle

Senior Designer and Illustrator

December 2005 – December 2017

San Francisco, CA


Oversaw day-to-day editorial production and art directed sections — Food + Home, Travel, Style, and Business Report. Developed and produced new editorial products for digital devices, livestream platforms, and printed specialty magazines.


Job highlights: Meeting actor Jackie Chan during his newsroom visit, interviewing actor Fred Armisen at MacWorld, designing fake front pages for the TV show, Monk, and knowing how legendary Bay Area food critic Michael Bauer looks like.

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