Jovanna Tosello is an award-winning creative director who specializes in design & storytelling.
Jovanna is an art director at Google where she works brand-side with the experimental marketing team. She works collaboratively with internal stakeholders and external agencies in the production of large-scale, brand activations.
Experimental Marketing
I helped lead the art direction and design of Google’s in-person experience at CES, the most influential tech event in the world. We created a cutting-edge, interactive booth that showcased Google's latest products and innovations in a dynamic and engaging way.
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Google - CES 2023
I helped lead the art direction and design of Google’s in-person experience at CES, the most influential tech event in the world. We created a cutting-edge, interactive booth that showcased Google's latest products and innovations in a dynamic and engaging way.
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Episodic Animation
We The People
I led the art direction for the Emmy award-winning Netflix’s series, We the People, “The Courts” episode. The series was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama, with the aims to educate a new generation of young Americans about the power of the people.
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Experimental Marketing
Google - Search On ‘22
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Google - Search On ‘22
Search On is an annual live event that showcases the newest ways Google Search is helping organize the world’s information while making it universally accessible and useful. This year’s theme, “Search Outside The Box”, focuses on showcasing Google’s key innovations in Search that help connect us to information in more natural and intuitive ways.
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Experimental Marketing
Google - I/O ‘22
Google I/O is one of Google's highest profile annual events. In May 2022, Google I/O returns to the Shoreline Amphitheatre for a live audience for the first time in 2 years. This year’s I/O focus is on investments in advanced technologies such as AI and technical infrastructure, with the goal of helping to organize the world’s information while making it universally accessible and useful—like more natural conversations with Google Assistant, an immersive view in Maps and improved skin tone representation across Google’s products.
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Google - I/O ‘22
Google I/O is one of Google's highest profile annual events. In May 2022, Google I/O returns to the Shoreline Amphitheatre for a live audience for the first time in 2 years. This year’s I/O focus is on investments in advanced technologies such as AI and technical infrastructure, with the goal of helping to organize the world’s information while making it universally accessible and useful—like more natural conversations with Google Assistant, an immersive view in Maps and improved skin tone representation across Google’s products.
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Advertorial
We are celebrating the meaningful role beauty plays in our lives. Together, we will change what beauty means to the world, and use the power of beauty to bring out the possibilities within every person.
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New York Times x SAS - Part 3
We are celebrating the meaningful role beauty plays in our lives. Together, we will change what beauty means to the world, and use the power of beauty to bring out the possibilities within every person.
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Advertorial
Amid a pandemic, how one company adapted its data philosophy in real time. SAS is a data analytics and technology company making real-world, positive change in our life time. Their partnership with Siemens Healthineers, a medical equipment manufacturer, has positively impacted medical needs, supply chains and logistics networks throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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New York Times x SAS - Part 2
Amid a pandemic, how one company adapted its data philosophy in real time. SAS is a data analytics and technology company making real-world, positive change in our life time. Their partnership with Siemens Healthineers, a medical equipment manufacturer, has positively impacted medical needs, supply chains and logistics networks throughout the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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Advertorial
Restaurants have always been the lifeblood of New York — and that has never been clearer than it is now. To celebrate the world-renowned food of New York City, DoorDash and T Brand profiled iconic restaurants — plus one spot for sweets — across many neighborhoods, starting with the borough of Manhattan.
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New York Times x DoorDash
Restaurants have always been the lifeblood of New York — and that has never been clearer than it is now. To celebrate the world-renowned food of New York City, DoorDash and T Brand profiled iconic restaurants — plus one spot for sweets — across many neighborhoods, starting with the borough of Manhattan.
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Advertorial
Millenials have less purchasing power on average to buy large ticket items--Compounded by the negative financial impact of the pandemic. In order to help folks purchase important high ticket items, PayPal’s Pay in 4 offers the ability to extend customer purchasing power.
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New York Times x PayPal
Millenials have less purchasing power on average to buy large ticket items--Compounded by the negative financial impact of the pandemic. In order to help folks purchase important high ticket items, PayPal’s Pay in 4 offers the ability to extend customer purchasing power.
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Advertorial
“Cleantech” describes the application of technology that reduces negative environmental impacts. While renewable energy production from sources such as wind and solar are the most visible examples of cleantech, also central is conserving energy through storage, building-efficiency and smart-grid applications. All this technology is what keeps green energy moving forward — expanding the landscape for investors.
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New York Times x Global X
“Cleantech” describes the application of technology that reduces negative environmental impacts. While renewable energy production from sources such as wind and solar are the most visible examples of cleantech, also central is conserving energy through storage, building-efficiency and smart-grid applications. All this technology is what keeps green energy moving forward — expanding the landscape for investors.
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Advertorial
When technology and human wonder intertwine, we can usher in new hope to address global challenges. SAS is a data analytics and technology company making real-world, positive change in our life time through innovation and collaboration.
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New York Times x SAS - Part 1
When technology and human wonder intertwine, we can usher in new hope to address global challenges. SAS is a data analytics and technology company making real-world, positive change in our life time through innovation and collaboration.
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Know Their Names
So far, in 2019, at least 19 Black Trans women have been killed by fatal violence in the United States. The approximation speaks to the fundamental impossibility of tracking the lives and deaths of people who are ignored by the power structures that keep tabs. As a result, experts feel certain that these records are incomplete. Details are scant, relegating the deaths of Black Trans women to inaccurate statistics and sending a message that their lives don't count. Here, however, is where Black Trans women are honored and remembered.
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Editorial
It’s hard to imagine the internet without Wikipedia. Just like the air we breathe, the definitive digital encyclopedia is the default resource for everything and everyone — from Google’s search bar to undergrad students embarking on research papers.
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The Wikipedia Story
It’s hard to imagine the internet without Wikipedia. Just like the air we breathe, the definitive digital encyclopedia is the default resource for everything and everyone — from Google’s search bar to undergrad students embarking on research papers.
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Editorial
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The Burn Out Effect
We are not one-woman factories nor are we theater for others. We’re human. A four-part, advice-driven guide to help women of color honor themselves first, we investigate the emotional impact from pressures to perform and produce in an already chaotic world.
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Creative Direction
GEN is a publication for stories documenting the powerful forces reshaping our world. The best ideas can change who we are. Medium is where those ideas take shape, take off, and spark powerful conversations.
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GEN Magazine
GEN is a publication for stories documenting the powerful forces reshaping our world. The best ideas can change who we are. Medium is where those ideas take shape, take off, and spark powerful conversations.
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Creative Direction
OneZero offers clarity, insight, and an expert read on what’s happening in the world in language accessible to any curious reader. It’s clear-eyed but enthusiastic about offering a knowing guide to whatever’s just around the corner.
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OneZero Magazine
OneZero offers clarity, insight, and an expert read on what’s happening in the world in language accessible to any curious reader. It’s clear-eyed but enthusiastic about offering a knowing guide to whatever’s just around the corner.
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Creative Direction
From the mundane to the extraordinary to the downright weird, we’re here to explore what it means to be human. Human Parts is a publication that centers personal essays and stories featuring the imperfection and beauty of the human experience.
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Human Parts Magazine
From the mundane to the extraordinary to the downright weird, we’re here to explore what it means to be human. Human Parts is a publication that centers personal essays and stories featuring the imperfection and beauty of the human experience.
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Creative Direction
Forge presents a new way of understanding ourselves & the world--A publication that examines and illuminates our constant struggle to get more done, invest in creativity and focus, and be happy doing it.
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Forge Magazine
Forge presents a new way of understanding ourselves & the world--A publication that examines and illuminates our constant struggle to get more done, invest in creativity and focus, and be happy doing it.
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Editorial
Here's how to clean everything in your house, room by room.
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Interactive Cleaning Guide
Here's how to clean everything in your house, room by room.
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Editorial
It's not all in our heads. Women speak out about how doctors dismissed their pain, downplayed their symptoms or simply sent them to a psychiatrist.
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Dismissed
It's not all in our heads. Women speak out about how doctors dismissed their pain, downplayed their symptoms or simply sent them to a psychiatrist.
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Talks & Residencies
- AIGA NY Design Conference 2020 (NY)
- Spruceton Inn Artist Residency (NY)
- Almost Perfect (JP)
- Light Gray Artist Residency (NOR)
- Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency (PRC)
- MacDowell Artist Colony Residency (US)
- Gunnar Gunnarson Museum Residency (IS)
- GilSociety Artist Residency (IS)
- AREHolland (NL)
- Kunstenarloogies (NL)
- SÍM Artist Residency Reykjavik (IS)
Awards
- AG Publisher Award, The New York Times
- Winner - Latin American Ilustración 8
- Best Short - Los Angeles Animation Festival
- Swatch Artist Residency 6-month Fellowship
- The MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship
- Semi-finalist - Adobe Student Awards
- Official Selection - Animation Block Party (NY)
- Official Selection - KLIK Amsterdam (UK)
- Official Selection - 700IS Reindeerland (IS)