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Derek Love is a designer and creative director in New York. His work spans identity, digital, campaign, retail, and environmental design, with a particular focus on building clear, durable visual and verbal systems.

He leads multidisciplinary teams and develops standards that bring consistency across complex organizations. His approach is grounded in typogaphy, structure, and careful execution.

At Verizon, Derek serves as Senior Creative Director, leading work across product, retail, and ditial touchpoints. His teams have developed identity systems, environmental graphics, campaign platforms, photography frameworks, and interactive experiences for the brand.

He previously held roles at Pentagram, Milton Glaser, Love & Partners, and Lippincott. Across more than two decades of practice, his work has spanned identity, publication design, environmental graphhics, digital products, naming and brand systems. His work has been recognized by Communication Arts, Graphis, Print Magazine. He is a recipient of the Steven Heller Design Research Award and has served as a juror for the Art Directors Club.