Fortune names new design director

Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff announcement on Monday:

I am delighted to announce that Emily Kehe is now the Design Director of Fortune. As you know, Emily has been filling in for John Korpics since his departure. During that time she has done a superb job; designing covers and layouts, overseeing the iPad edition, managing the department and working seamlessly with Mia Diehl, the copy room, and the entire edit team. So much so that when it came time to find a permanent replacement for John, (and while we did consider other candidates), I really needed to look no further than a few doors down to Emily’s office.

As Bob Ley would say, Emily grew up in a small town—Evergreen, Colorado—but she had big city dreams. (Note: Trey Parker attended Evergreen H.S. and you can see that in early South Park episodes.) Emily went to the journalism school at the University of Miami where she studied publication design and photography. She started working in newspapers, in the graphics department at the Miami Herald in 1998, and then moved to Boston where she joined a small design firm. She worked at the Boston Globe for seven years before moving to NYC to break into magazines. “I took a chance, quit my job at the Boston Globe, moved to New York, and thankfully landed a freelance job at Fortune in 2008,” Emily says. She freelanced at a few different magazines before returning here to help John Korpics with the redesign.

I think all of us look forward to working with Emily as she extends Fortune’s rich tradition of design excellence in our magazine and in the new digital forms, and brings a strong sense of design innovation to our organization as well. Please join me in congratulating Emily!