photo of Kelly Ford

Kelly Ford

Creative Director
AWAL

Kelly is a creative director, digital designer, animator & content strategist based in Los Angeles, CA. Joining AWAL in 2019, Kelly sits on the newly formed Creative Marketing team and is the label's first in-house Creative Director, overseeing brand marketing as well as creative direction & design across the roster. Prior to AWAL, Kelly was Senior Digital Designer at WMA where she co-led the global design team and was a founding US employee. Her work with client Republic Records received an honorable mention at the 2017 Webby Awards. In her 5 years at WMA, Kelly provided design & ideation across the entire WMA portfolio, with a focus on web build, motion graphics and content for social channel campaigns for both artists and brands. Artists Kelly has worked with include BANKS, Dayglow, girl in red, Gus Dapperton, Blake Rose and Ingrid Michaelson amongst others.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.