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Roy Kunkle • 455 Hyde Street Suite 1101
San Francisco, CA 94109 • 415-794-8948 roykunkle@sbcglobal.net

Roy Kunkle first started his 20 year long journey of design and creativity at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. During his two years of commercial art studies, Roy also developed a passion for fashion and retail merchandising. An internship in a Pittsburgh department store, Joseph Hornes, created the desire to design interior and window installations.

Following his internship, Roy studied Art History at Carnegie Mellon University. Upon graduation with a degree in graphic and commercial art, Roy moved to New York to begin his first Visual Merchandising position at Macy's Herald Square. Over the next ten years this career choice gave Roy the opportunity to work with both specialty and department store retailers including Saks Fifth Avenue and Bonwit Teller creating high fashion windows, styling photo shoots, runway shows, merchandising store interiors and special events. Many of his window designs were featured in Views and Reviews, a monthly trade publication showcasing prominent window presentations in major metropolitan areas.

A move to San Francisco in the mid 1990's offered a change, and Roy continued to explore all aspects of retail merchandising including the management of large visual departments for Macy's West, The Emporium, Saks and Gumps. It was the position as Visual Department manager for the Emporium's San Francisco flagship store, that introduced Roy to his most current occupation, Visual Design Instructor on the San Francisco campus of the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

Roy Kunkle is a Visual Artist with a Fine Artist's sensibility to the craft and design of Visual Display, Interiors, Merchandising and Teaching. This is a sensibility that is focused, realistic and pragmatic in application. His dedication to his work is without compromise, but with a balanced approach, and most importantly, a sense of humor.