natasha kong

Natasha Kong’s design career began in 1994 when she co-founded Random Media Core, a creative new media house based in downtown Toronto, Canada. As the company’s Art/Creative Director, she developed websites and corporate identities for a variety of clients including TVGUIDE/Telemedia, Sega City/Playdium, Rogers Media and Absolut Vodka.

From 1997-1999, she hosted and wrote a technology column on the Discovery Channel’s EXN-TV and @Discovery programs. In 1999 she co-founded Savvy, Inc. and after raising startup capital from a group of Canadian investors, launched Savvy’s first product SheNetworks.com, a young women’s magazine. In the fall of 2000, she re-established Savvy, Inc. as a creative consulting company providing services to organizations in Canada, the U.S and Europe. Most notably, STREETSPACE a kiosk company based out of Los Angeles, hired her to oversee their pilot rollout program at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.

Since 2002 Kong has been working on projects in the health care and public sector contracting with companies such as the Canadian Broadcast Corporation to develop a social issue website targeted to youth 16-24. As a freelancer, she has turned her creative talents to supporting nonprofit organizations and socially mission based businesses. Her creative expertise was most recently engaged on projects for Capers Community Market, the National Film Board of Canada and Evergreen. She is a volunteer with Evergreen (a Canadian national environmental organization) and Oxfam and is a member of Green Enterprise Toronto.

Kong’s vision, expertise and accomplishments have been highlighted in publications such as Canadian Business Magazine, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Wired Magazine. As well she has been a guest panelist at numerous industry conferences, events, and post-secondary institutions. In May 2000, she won the Young Woman of the Year award at the Canadian New Media Awards for her continuing contribution to the new media industry.