Core Faculty
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Akiko Busch
Design, culture, and nature writer
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Pierre Alexandre de Looz
Arts writer, architect, and media consultant
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Adam Harrison Levy
Writer, documentary filmmaker and producer
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Molly Heintz
MA Design Research Program Chair; editor in chief Oculus magazine
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Steven Heller
Co-chair MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur
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Karrie Jacobs
Author and contributing editor at Architect Magazine
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Leital Molad
Executive Producer of Podcasts at First Look Media
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Aidan O’Connor
Design curator, educator, and consultant
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Robin Pogrebin
Senior Culture Reporter, The New York Times
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Jennifer Rittner
Principal, Content Matters
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Eric Schwartau
MA Design Research Director of Operations; Co-founder Talk Hole
Network of Critics & Readers
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Kurt Andersen
Author, critic, and host, WNYC’s “Studio 360”
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Paola Antonelli
Senior curator of Architecture & Design and director of R&D at Museum of Modern Art
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Spencer Bailey
Editor-at-large of Phaidon, Contributing editor at Town & Country magazine
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Michael Bierut
Partner at Pentagram and co-founder, Design Observer
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Andrea Lippke
Design and culture critic
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Sarah Cox
Founding editor, Curbed Detroit, executive editor, Curbed
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Daniel D’Oca
Principal and co-founder of Interboro Partners
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Justin Davidson
Architecture and classical music critic, New York Magazine
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Neil Donnelly
Graphic designer
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Stephen Duncombe
Cultural and political writer, educator, and activist
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Chappell Ellison
Design writer and editor
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Daniela Fabricius
Architectural historian and theorist
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Rob Giampietro
Creative Lead for Google Design NY
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Steven Guarnaccia
Illustrator and designer
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David Hadju
Author, music critic for The New Republic
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Peter Hall
Design writer, senior lecturer and design department head at Griffith University Queensland College of Art
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Virginia Heffernan
Author and critic
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Jessica Helfand
Co-founding editor of Design Observer
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Joshua Hume
Editor and filmmaker
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Gary Hustwit
Director of the documentary films Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized
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Jennifer Kabat
Journalist and editor
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Starlee Kine
American public radio producer and writer
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Beth Kleber
Founding archivist, Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives and The School of Visual Arts Archives
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Alexandra Lange
Architecture critic
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Geoff Manaugh
Author, BLDGBLG; former director, Studio-X NYC at Columbia University
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Murray Moss
Founder of Moss Bureau and Moss design gallery
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Stephanie Murg
Critic, writer, editor, UnBeige
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Sina Najafi
Curator, editor-in-chief, Cabinet
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Rick Poynor
Design and visual culture critic
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Angela Riechers
Art director, writer, and educator
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Zachary Sachs
Coordinator, SVA Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives
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Anooradha Siddiqi
Historian, architect, writer, cultural theorist
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Roberta Smith
Co-chief art critic at The New York Times
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Elizabeth Spiers
Media launch consultant, entrepreneur, and writer; founding editor of Gawker
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Karen Stein
Writer, architectural consultant and former editorial director, Phaidon Press
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Sam Tanenhaus
Editor, The New York Times Book Review
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Craig Taylor
Author and Editor, Five Dials
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Meredith TenHoor
Author, educator, and researcher, architectural history and theory
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Rob Walker
Technology and culture columnist, Yahoo News
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Mimi Zeiger
Editor and publisher of loud paper
Guest Speakers
- Glenn Adamson, director of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), “Making it in NYC”
- Vince Aletti, photography critic, The New Yorker, “Face of Fashion: Fashion Photography, Art Direction, and Magazine Design“
- Donald Albrecht, curator, Museum of the City of New York, “The Power of Display”
- Steve Almond, author, “How to Make the Reader See It: The Book as a Visual Artifact“
- Allison Arieff, The New York Times columnist and author, “From Derrida to Dwell to DIY Urbanism”
- Nicholson Baker, novelist, critic, “Wrapping Sentences Around Things“
- Emilie Baltz, founder, creative director, Baltzworks; brand director Museum of Sex, “Why Foreplay Makes the Food (AKA: There’s More to a Steak Than Beef)“
- David Barringer, author, graphic designer, photographer, artist, “Design As Literature: The Changing Shape of the Novel”
- Michael Barson, ephemera collector, publicist, Penguin Books
- Jake Barton, founder, Local Projects, “Collaborative Storytelling and the Dissolution of Technology“
- Martin Beck, artist, “Selected for Their Implications”
- Eugenia Bell, design editor, Frieze, “Design, Observed: Writing Design and Architecture“
- Roger Bennett, sports and culture writer, “On Objects“
- Aaron Betsky, critic, curator, director, Cincinnati Art Museum, “Architecture Beyond Building“
- Peter Biľak, founder and editor, Works that Work, “Works That Work: Making Magazines Today”
- Ayse Birsel, co-founder, Birsel + Sec, “Design the Life You Love”
- Andrew Blauvelt, curator of Architecture and Design and chief of communications and audience engagement, Walker Art Center, “Graphic Design: Discipline, Medium, Practice, Tool, or Other?”
- David Blum, writer, editor, Amazon.com’s Kindle Singles
- Alan Brake, architecture critic, executive editor The Architect’s Newspaper
- Luke Bulman and Jessica Young, partners, graphic design office Thumb, “Some Loose Connections”
- Chandler Burr, author and perfume critic, The New York Times, “Invisible Design: The Structure of Scents”
- Stephen Cassell, principal, Architecture Research Office
- Vishan Chakrabarti, director of the Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and partner at SHoP Architects, “A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for Urban America”
- Aric Chen, curator of Design and Architecture at M+, Hong Kong, “Building a Visual Culture Museum from Zero, or The World, from Another Point of View”
- Irwin Chusid, archivist, radio host
- Jeff Chu, articles editor, Fast Company
- Brian Collins and John Fulbrook, Collins, “Defining the Story“
- Lucy Collins, fashion critic, “From the Ivory Tower to the Tents: Thinking Critically about Fashion”
- Zoe Coombes, designer, founder, Cmmnwlth, “Dirt from Glass Cages”
- Glen Cummings, MTWTF, “Negotiating Urban Nature“
- Elizabeth Demaray, conceptual artist, “The Hand-Up Project”
- Mark Dery, cultural critic, “The Politics of Style”
- Elyssa Dimant, fashion critic, “‘In Rogue’: Crafting Fashion Criticism”
- Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, curator, department head of Costumes and Textiles, RISD Museum of Art, “Mannequins in the Museum: Perspectives on Curating Fashion”
- Greg D’Onofrio and Patricia Belen, partners, Kind Co.
- Susannah Drake, principal, dlandstudio
- William Drenttel, designer, author, social entrepreneur, publisher, editorial director of Design Observer
- Stuart Ewen, design historian, “Calculated Nostalgia”
- Peter Feld, web editor, blogger
- Louise Fili, author, graphic designer, Louise Fili Ltd.
- Russell Flinchum, design historian, “The Other Half of Henry Dreyfuss“
- Rob Forbes, founder, Design Within Reach
- Mark Foster Gage, architect and principal, Gage / Clemenceau Architects, “Architecture After Concepts”
- Sasha Frere-Jones, music critic, The New Yorker
- Eva Franch, executive director, Storefront for Art and Architecture, “Corporate Avant Garde and the Return of Disruption“
- Jason Fulford, photographer, co-founder, J&L Books, “Land“
- Pedro Gadanho, author, architect, curator, MoMA Department of Architecture and Design, “Is Curating the New Criticism?”
- Beatrice Galilee, associate curator of Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Activating Architecture”
- Paul Galloway, archivist, MoMA
- Dwight Garner, book critic, The New York Times
- Milton Glaser, graphic designer, “D-Crit Open House, 2012“
- Vicki Gold Levi, photo researcher
- Jamie Gray, founder, Matter
- Toni Griffin, director, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, “Design for the Just City“
- Alisa Grifo and Marco ter Haar Romeny, proprietors of New York City retail store KIOSK, “The Things We Never Stop Thinking About”
- Jocelyn Groom, head of exhibitions, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, Los Angeles Times, “The Plume: Architecture Under a Cloud”
- Virginia Heffernan, columnist, television critic, The New York Times, “The Pleasures of the Internet”
- Sharon Helgason Gallagher, president, ART BOOK/DAP, “The Book and the Bicycle“
- Scott Henderson, designer, founder, Scott Henderson, Inc.
- Eric Himmel, editor-in-chief, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Glenn Horowitz, antiquarian book dealer
- Jamer Hunt, associate professor of Transcdisplinary Design, Parsons, “Becoming Transdisciplinary: Critical Unbecoming“
- Julie V. Iovine, executive editor, Architect’s Newspaper, “The Difference between Newsworthy and New: Reporting and Criticism in the Architectural Press”
- Bjarke Ingels, founder, Bjarke Ingels Group, “Speculatively Speaking: The Future of Design Criticism“
- Interboro Partners, urban designers, “Advocacy and Pluralism in Architecture“
- Alexandra Jacobs, fashion critic and fashion features writer at The New York Times, “Trending: How Fashion Has Gone From Class to Mass (and Maybe Mess)”
- Karrie Jacobs, urban design critic, “The City Beautiful All Over Again“
- Anab Jain, designer, filmmaker, and founder of design studio Superflux, “Design for Anxious Times”
- Natalie Jeremijenko, artist, engineer, associate professor, NYU Visual Art Department, “Critical Engagment: Re-Imagining our Relationship to Natural Systems and Material Culture”
- Casey Jones, director of design excellence and the arts, U.S. General Services Administration, “E Pluribus Unum: Creating Design Policy in the U.S.A.”
- Eve Kahn, writer, editor, antiques columnist, The New York Times
- Ben Katchor, cartoonist
- Markus Kayser, inventor, product designer, “Can There Be Union between Nature and Technology in Fabrication?”
- Olympia Kazi, writer, curator, former executive director, Van Alen institute, “Speculatively Speaking: The Future of Design Criticism“
- Kevin Kearney, founder Hard Candy Shell
- Stuart Kestenbaum, director, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
- Michael Kimmelman, chief architecture critic, The New York Times, “The Role of an Architecture Critic and Possibilities for the Future of Criticism“
- Juliet Kinchin, curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art
- Emily King, author, curator, design historian
- Linda King, lecturer, Design History, Theory and Visual Communication, Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, “Fly Irish: US and Dutch Influences on Aer Lingus Advertising”
- Pat Kirkham, design historian, “Writing Critical Monographs: Case Studies of Ray and Charles Eames & Elaine and Saul Bass”
- David Krasnow, senior editor, PRI’s “Studio 360”
- Prem Krishnamurthy, cofounder, Project Projects, “As of 10.15.12“
- Robert Krulwich, NPR science correspondent and co-host, “Radiolab,” “Hard Stories Told Easily”
- Laura Kurgan, architect, designer, teacher, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, “Mapping Justice”
- Melissa Lafsky, author Opinionistas blog
- Jimenez Lai, architect, “Cartoonish Architecture“
- Mark Lamster, author, critic, “How to Write a Book”
- Cathy Lang Ho, founder, The Architect’s Newspaper; commissioner, curator, U.S. Pavillion at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale
- Lewis Lapham, writer, former editor of Harper’s, “Eye to Eye with Lewis Lapham“
- Kerry Lauerman, editor, Salon.com
- Sarah Lawrence, director, MA History of Decorative Arts & Design program, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Saul Leiter, artist, photographer
- Greg Lindsay, author, writer, Fast Company
- Andrea Lipps, curatorial assistant, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Tod Lippy, editor-in-chief, Espous, “More than Words“
- George Lois, art director, designer, author
- Kati London, game designer, Zynga, “New Forms of Engagement and Play in a Sensor- and Real-Time-Data-Dominated World“
- Peter Lunenfeld, professor, UCLA, “Your Client is the Future“
- Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, “Design Fictions: How the Art of Narrative Can Dominate the Understanding of Design Practice”
- Elaine Lustig Cohen, designer, book dealer, artist
- Geoff Manaugh, author, BLDGBLOG
- Roman Mars, creator of “99% Invisible” and host and program director of “Public Radio Remix” from PRX, “Now You See It: Telling Stories about the Built World”
- Deborah Marton, executive director, Design Trust for Public Spaces, “Design Trust: Building Partnerships to Improve Public Space“
- Cathleen McGuigan, arts editor, Newsweek, “The Role of Design Criticism in the National Press”
- Michael Meredith, founder MOS Architects, faculty at Princeton School of Architecture, “Playful Experimentation and Criticism“
- Adam Michaels, co-founder, Project Projects, “As of 10.15.12“
- Abbott Miller, writer, curator, partner, Pentagram, “The In-Between of Form and Content”
- Debbie Millman, chair, SVA MPS Branding
- Victoria Milne, director of creative services, NYC’s Department of Design and Construction, “We Built This City: How Art, Graphics, and Design Policy Take Shape for New Yorkers“
- Bill Moggridge, director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, “The Role of Collecting, Curating and Education in the Context of a National Design Museum”
- Nicholas de Monchaux, author, architect, and theorist, “Fashioning Appollo: The Story of the Twenty-One-Layer Spacesuit“
- Lars Müller, publisher, Lars Muller Publishers
- Regina Myer, president, Brooklyn Bridge Park
- Dan Nadel, author, curator, director, PictureBox Inc.
- Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the One Laptop per Child Foundation and co-founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, “Reflecting on the One Laptop Per Child Project”
- Jane Nisselson, founder, Virtual Beauty, “Cinematics of Systems, Processes, and Beautiful Things“
- Philip Nobel, architecture critic
- Bruce Nussbaum, contributing editor, Business Week, “Breaking the Frames“
- Amy Ogata, design historian, “Design, Creativity, and Postwar American Childhood”
- Kevin O’Callaghan, 3D designer, collector
- Jonathan Olivares, industrial designer, researcher, “Working with Jonathan Olivares“
- Spyros Papapetros, assistant professor, Princeton University School of Architecture, “Figure and Frame in German Architecture and Film: From Mies to Murnau”
- Gregg Pasquarelli, founding partner, SHoP Architects
- Chee Pearlman, design consultant, conference program director, “Designing the Live Content Experience”
- Martin Pedersen, executive editor, Metropolis
- Maria Popova, founder, editor-in-chief, Brain Pickings
- Virginia Postrel, author, columnist, “Meaning and Value in Commercial Culture”
- Alissa Quart, journalist and author
- Fiona Raby, designer and partner Dunne & Raby, “United micro-Kingdoms (UmK): A Design Fiction”
- David Reinfurt, graphic designer, writer, critic, “The First Rule is Always Production, Never Documentation. The Second Rule is There Are No Rules“
- Roger Remington, printmaker, graphic designer, Vignelli Distinguished Professor of Design, RIT
- Sarah Rich, writer, editorial consultant, digital strategist, “Tracing Footprints: Exploring the Intersection of Design, Technology, Cities, and Food“
- Damon Rich, urban designer for the City of Newark, founder, Center for Urban Pedagogy, “Working the System: Recent Attempts to Bring Design and Politics to Productive Crisis“
- Fred Ritchin, professor of Photography and Imaging, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
- Michael Rock, 2 x 4 founding partner, “Speaking Surfaces,” “Superficiality, Dematerialization, and Branded Surfaces”
- Noah Rosenberg, editor-in-chief, Narratively, “Slow Down“
- Constance Rosenblum, editor and reporter, The New York Times, “Private Lives in the Big City: Writing About New Yorkers and Their Distinctive Habitats“
- Jeff Roth, researcher, The New York Times
- Tina Roth Eisenberg, founder, Swiss Miss
- Elizabeth Royte, journalist
- Andrew Rumbach, PhD candidate, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, “Only by the Grace of God: The Political Ecology of Urban Disasters“
- Zoe Ryan, Neville Bryan Curator of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, “Contemporary Constructions: Design at the Art Institute of Chicago“
- Witold Rybczynski, author, critic, “The Biography of a Building“
- Danielle Sacks, senior writer, Fast Company
- Katie Salen, writer, educator, Parsons Design and Technology Program, “Everyone Knows Something: Design of Participation“
- James Sanders, architect, author, and documentary filmmaker, “Begin with the Screen: Using Film to Explore Issues of Architecture and Design“
- Mark Schapiro, editorial director, Center for Investigative Reporting
- Jeffrey Schnapp, cultural historian, “Man, Machine, Morality“
- Jason Schupbach, director of Design Programs for the National Endowment for the Arts, “Design Federal”
- Felicity Scott, assistant professor, Columbia University Graduate School or Architecture, Planning and Preservation, “Non-Communication: Bernard Rudofsky and the Empire of Signs”
- John Seabrook, author, staff writer, The New Yorker
- Neil Selkirk, photographer
- Adrian Shaughnessy, graphic designer, writer, publisher
- Paul Shaw, type archeologist, design historian
- Cynthia Smith, curator of socially responsible design, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- Gabriel Snyder, editor-in-chief, Gawker
- Deborah Solomon, art critic, The New York Times journalist, biographer
- Jenni Sorkin, craft historian, “The Pottery Seminar at Black Mountain College“
- Michael Sorkin, architect and urbanist, “New York City (Steady) State: An Outgoing Research Project Investigating the Limits of Local Autonomy“
- Sandy Speicher, education director at IDEO, “Design for Learning“
- Naomi Stead, architecture, art, design writer
- Lockhart Steele, blog publisher, president, Curbed
- Valerie Steele, founder, editor-in-chief, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, “Fashion Theory”
- Emily Stokes-Rees, material anthropologist, “Museumizing the National Imagination: Reflections on Citizenship and Time Traveling“
- Jon Sueda, graphic designer and director of Design at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, “Wide Open Spaces”
- Maki Suzuki, graphic designer, åbäke, “Seriously Forks XI”
- Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief, Metropolis
- Gay Talese, author journalist, “Eye to Eye with Gay Talese“
- Lettie Teague, wine columnist, staff writer, The Wall Street Journal, “The Language of Wine Labels“
- Edward Tenner, author, historian of technology and culture
- John Thackara, founder, director of The Doors of Perception, “The Revelation“
- Jane Thompson, editor, designer, urban planner, “Rediscovering Design Research: Concept, Atmosphere, Impact on Modern Living”
- Philip Tiongson, principal, Potion, “Invention and Intention: Building Experiential Stories“
- Linda Tischler, senior editor, Fast Company, “Speculatively Speaking: The Future of Design Criticism“
- Catarina Tsang and Patrick Seymour, principals, Tsang Seymour Design Inc.
- George Trakas, sculptor
- Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, partners, Antenna Design, “Design for Activation”
- Valerie Vago Laurer, editor, Phaidon Books
- David van der Leer, executive director, Van Alen Institute, “Into the Streets: Engaging Urban Citizens into More Consistent Thinking and Speaking Up on Cities”
- Daniel van der Velden, founding partner, Metahaven
- Kazys Varnelis, director, Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, “Network Culture: A Changing Context for Design“
- Pilar Viladas, design editor, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, “Words and Pictures“
- Khoi Vinh, graphic designer, blogger
- Alissa Walker, blogger and author
- John Warner, editor, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, “It’s Funny Because its True. It’s True Because it’s Funny“
- Lawrence Weschler, author and director, NYU Institute for the Humanities, “Towards a Typology of Convergences“
- Kerry William Purcell, writer, design critic, historian
- Cintra Wilson, fashion critic, “Fear and Clothing“
- David Womack, executive creative director, R/GA
Studio Visits
- Lindsey Adelman
- Rafael Esquer, alfalfa studio llc
- Harry Allen, Harry Allen Design
- Antenna Design
- Diana Balmori, Balmori Associates
- James Biber, Biber Architects
- Ken Carbone, Carbone Smolan Agency
- Zoe Coombes and David Boira, Commonwealth
- Carla Diana, Carla Diana Design
- Bonnie Siegler, Eight and a Half
- Randy Hunt, Etsy
- Jason Severs, frog design
- Carin Goldberg, Carin Goldberg Design
- Ingrid Fetel, IDEO
- Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker, karlssonwilker
- Agnieszka Gasparska, Kiss Me I’m Polish
- Anni Kuan
- Tamara Maletic and Dan Michaelson, Linked by Air
- Jake Barton, Local Projects
- Guiseppe Lignano, LOT-EK
- Kiel Mead
- Mary Murphy, Maharam
- Alex Kalman, Mmuseum
- Glenn Cummings, MTWTF
- Matteo Bologna, Mucca
- Ben Rubin and Jer Thorp, The Office for Creative Research
- Scott Stowell, Open
- Luke Hayman, Pentagram
- Emily Oberman, Pentagram
- Eddie Opara, Pentagram
- Amanda Peyton
- Brian Janusiak and Elizabeth Beer, Project No. 8
- Stefan Sagmeister, Sagmeister & Walsh
- Gregg Pasquerelli, SHoP Architects
- Daniel Arsham and Alex Mustonen, Snarkitecture
- Galia Solomonoff, Solomonoff Architecture Studio
- Michael Sorkin, Michael Sorkin Studio
- Rachel Shechtman, STORY
- Chris Streng, Streng
- James Victore
- Caroline Woolard