Emanuela Frigerio is a Partner of the firm. Her responsibilities include
the oversight of graphic design programs for cultural institutions, print programs and corporate identities. She has over twenty years of professional experience in graphic design, illustration, and three-dimensional design, and has established an exceptional international reputation in England, Italy and Japan.

From 1983 she was employed as a Junior Graphic Designer by Conran Associates in London. In this capacity she was engaged in many team projects. From 1985-1988 Ms. Frigerio was employed by Franco Gaffuri Agenzia di Grafica, Milan, as a Graphic Designer. In 1988 Ms. Frigerio joined PAOS, Inc. in Tokyo, Japan as a Graphic Designer.

Ms. Frigerio joined Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. in August 1990, and practiced there until that firm closed in 2005. She has designed graphic identities for the Rockefeller Foundation, The McNay Art Museum, Integrated Living Communities, Marriott Rewards, and the Index Corporation, as well as a new trademark for Tokyo's popular Marubiru building and a comprehensive rebranding/repositioning for the Hankyu Hotel Chain. She designed packaging programs for Liz Claiborne's men's and women's fragrances and for IBM Multimedia. She developed exhibit graphics standard manuals for Acquario di Genova, Oceanario de Lisboa and the New Orleans Aquarium. She designed the exhibition graphics for the Bobst Library at NYU and for several exhibitions for the Library of Congress. She has been responsible for corporate publications and promotional materials for JCDecaux, Knoll, ESG, FactSet, US General Services Administration, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Crane Papers.

She has designed books for Abrams, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and the Chermayeff & Geismar Inc. monograph, designing:, published by Graphis in 2003.

She has received design awards from the Italian Art Directors Club, the American Art Directors Club, AIGA, SEGD and the GSA Design Excellence Program, among others. Her work has been featured in several publications, such as AIGA Graphic Design Annuals, the Art Director's Club Annuals, Print, Communication Arts, Graphis, How magazine, and the PAOS Design Book.

Emanuela Frigerio was born in Torino, Italy. She graduated from the Polytechnic of Design in Milan, Italy in 1983.