Regina Flath (she/siya)

Regina is an art director and book designer. She’s queer and tisay: half Filipino and half American and 100% constructed from witchcraft, yarn, sewing needles, and plants. She’s the full time art director at Del Rey books. She’s a friend to imaginary creatures everywhere.

Regina’s illustration is represented by Teresa Kietlinski at Bookmark Literary. View her portfolio here.

Clients

Penguin Random House, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bloomsbury USA, Walker Books for Young Readers, Random House, Sourcebooks, The University of the Arts, Amazon Publishing Company, Simon and Schuster, and others. Regina is currently NOT taking on freelance projects at this time. Thank you for your interest!

Awards

2018 Merit Award Children’s Trade Jacket, New York Book Show: When Dimple Met Rishi (jacket art direction and design)
2018 Honorable Mention Bertelsmann Creativity Boot Camp for Living Covers, animated e reader cover pitch
2017 Best Children's Book Series Category 1st Place, New York Book Show: Night World Series (cover art direction and designer, interior art direction and design)
2016 Best Children's Book Category 3rd Place, New York Book Show: Diary of a Haunting (jacket art direction and design, cover art direction and design, interior art direction and design)

Interviews and Speaking Engagements

If you're interested in interviewing Regina for your blog or website, or if you'd like siya to join your panel or be a guest speaker at your design/illustration event, drop a note! Siya loves any opportunity to talk about book design, illustration, and art direction! Bonus points if you need a visual presentation; her animated gif game is strong.

On the Internet and Beyond:

2022:

LUDA by Grant Morrison on The Late Show with Seth Meyers

NPR’s Ideastream Public Media to talk about The Superhero Project, a non profit organization I work with as an artist volunteer and artist advisory board member

2021:

NPR’s Best Books of 2021 for Skin of the Sea

Panelist on Art, Design, and Media for Professional Filipino American Youth organization

Creator, Contributor, Researcher, Facilitator, and Project Manager for Conscious Creative Feedback: A workshop developed in-house at Random House Children’s books with collaborators Katrina Damkoehler and Rotem Moscovich. Conscious Creative Feedback aims to give colleagues and design professionals tools to give conscious feedback on depictions of diversity in books, specifically on covers. We explore how bias impacts our responses to depictions of diversity in art and design, and practice delivering business-goal-oriented feedback using design terms and conscious language.

2020:

Panelist on ART, MEET TEXT at the inaugural DVCon

RHCB Inclusion Partner

2019:

New York Public Library Best of 2019 in YA (Wilder Girls)

RHCB Steering Committee Member for the Diversity and Inclusion Council

2018:

Interviewed on Smart Bitches Trashy Books podcast

Guest on New Visions podcast with Society of Illustrators

Panelist on Diversity in Design at Penguin Random House, in association with the Young to Publishing Group

Panelist on Designing Diverse Book covers, in association with the Penguin Random House Diversity Council

Presenter on cover design and art direction for diverse high school students, in association with the Children’s Book Council