Visiting Artists 2019–20
Loraine Furter
Loraine Furter is a graphic designer and researcher specializing in editorial design, hybrid publishing and intersectional feminism. As a member of the cyber feminist collective Just For The Record, she works to highlight and alleviate the biases in online collaborative platforms as Wikipedia. Her research on women’s artists books has been shown in Brussels, Paris, and Sharjah and is the subject of her doctoral research at Sint Lucas Antwerpen.
Eric Schrijve
Eric Schrijver is an interaction designer, artist, and author. He runs a group blog called I like tight pants and mathematics, which aims to motivate designers and artists to get more involved in the world of computer programming. A former core member of the Open Source Publishing collective, he taught interaction design and coding in the Graphic Design department of KABK, The Hague. He is author of “Copy This Book,” an artist’s guide to copyright.
Yotam Hadar
Yootam Hadar works with typography, print, branding, and environmental and interactive media. Past clients and collaborators include Nike, 2x4, Pentagram, Project Projects, Sagmeister, MoMA, Google, Yale School of Architecture, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Goethe-Institut. He has taught at Parsons, Rutgers, and Pratt in New York, and he was a guest critic at RISD, SVA, NYU, Yale University, and Bezalel Academy. He holds an MFA from Yale.
Tracy Ma
Tracy Ma is a Hong Kong-born Canadian graphic designer. She is currently the Visual Editor of the New York Time's Styles desk, where she's tinkering new interactive formats that inform and bring delight. She was previously the Deputy Creative Director of Bloomberg Businessweek, a publication where she honed her chops during five very formative years. She has worked with clients such as Google, Columbia University GSAPP, and Frank Ocean.
Laura Coombs
Laura Coombs is a graphic designer in New York, currently the Senior Designer at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and a Visiting Instructor at Pratt Institute. As the Senior Designer at the New Museum, she has designed exhibitions and special publications for artists including Sarah Lucas, Nathaniel Mellors, and Marguerite Humeau, in addition to creating comprehensive design systems and typographic branding for special museum initiatives such as IdeasCity, New Inc., and Rhizome.
Jiminie Ha
Jiminie Ha is founder of With Projects, a creative agency with a collective background in fine arts, curation, creative direction, design, publishing, branding, and fashion. The agency has been awarded the Rome Prize and D&AD Award for excellence in Publication/Newspapers. In 2016 their digital campaign for Condé Nast was nominated for a Cannes Lion Award. White Zinfandel, created by With Projects, couples food and art to provoke unexpected cravings and curiosities.
Hilda Wong, Ellen Lo
Hilda Wong and Ellen Lo met in Hong Kong, where they were both born and raised. The two are now based in New York. Since receiving a BFA in Design from SVA, Hilda has worked as a freelance graphic designer on identity, editorial, and interactive projects. Her work is closely related to her personal experience as a millennial woman of color in a diaspora. Ellen is a creative developer who studied computer engineering at Boston University. Her relationship with dance and Chinese culture has inspired much of her work, which takes form in kinetic sculpture, generative theater, type animations, and interactive web experiences.
Rianne Petter
Rianne Petter (1975) is a graphic designer and visual researcher who lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After her bachelor study (2002) in Graphic Design at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam (NL), Rianne started working as an independent graphic designer on commissions from both the cultural and commercial circuit, in the areas of art, festivals and fashion. From 2002 until 2010 she frequently tutored at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University. In 2006 she started her visual research on the medium of the poster in collaboration with graphic designer René Put.
Jeremy Hoffman
Jeremy Hoffman received his BFA in graphic design from MICA. He worked for over a decade at Pentagram, where his largest project was the 40,000 sq. ft. permanent exhibition design for the Harley-Davidson Museum, which opened in July 2008 in Milwaukee, WI. He was the chief liaison with architects Allied Works on the signage for their expansion of the Seattle Art Museum, and he oversaw the development and fabrication of several other institutional signage programs. He left Pentagram in 2010 and is now an independent design consultant in Baltimore where he continues to work on environmental and print projects.
Abbott Miller
Abbott’s projects address the cultural role of design and the public life of the written word. At Pentagram he leads a team designing books, magazines, catalogs, identities, exhibitions, and creating editorial projects. His work and critical writing has appeared in Eye, Print, I.D. and other publications, and he is the co-author of four books, including the classic Design/Writing/Research: Writing on Graphic Design.