Shreyas R Krishnan

Shreyas is an illustrator-designer from Chennai, India, with an eye for the everyday and an affinity for the drawn image. Rooted in research, her non-fiction work takes on the forms of comics, editorial illustration, and documentary drawings. She is curious about the ways visual culture and gender intersect. Through drawing and writing, she tries to understand the construction and endurance of memory – how, why and what we remember. 

KUDOS Design Collaboratory

KUDOS Design Collaboratory™ is a team of passionate graphic designers, web developers, and strategists working with forward-thinking brands, institutions, and agencies. Since 2008 we continue to create beautiful, thoughtful, and sincere products that bring about positive change. We believe in collaboration, experimentation, good typography, user-friendliness and attention to detail. We produce end products that are engaging, coherent, cohesive, and sustainable. kudos.nyc

Sean Kuhnke

Sean Kuhnke works as graphic designer in New York City. He holds a MFA from Yale University and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to attending graduate school he worked seven days a week at two different printing companies: during the week producing separations for offset printing and on the weekend pulling screenprinted wallpaper by hand. His work is fueled by experimentation in various printing processes. In his practice he seeks out ways to empower others through education and has lectured/assisted in workshops at VCU Qatar, The Ventriloquist Summer School Oslo, and SUNY Purchase. 

Stephen Kwok

Stephen Kwok makes live performance, experimental events, and installations. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process Programme in London, and has exhibited his work at Haus der Kulteren der Welt (HKW), The Center for Performance Research, American Medium, Julius Caesar, Chicago Cultural Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, and the Lawndale Art Center in Houston.

L & L

L & L is the design partnership of Leigh Mignogna and Liz Seibert. We first started working together as MFA students at Pratt, where we developed a design process that is iterative, collaborative and concept-driven. With every project, our goal is to identify core values and extend them into intelligent, engaging designs. We received recognition for our typeface design at the 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno in 2014 and at AIGA/NY in 2013. Previously, we published a book through Pratt Press on interdisciplinary design education, called Five Conversations on Graphic Design and Creative Writing.

Margaux Lacroix

Margaux was a CUP intern. Originally from Southern France, she’s a student at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-provence, where she studies political science, law, and economics. She is however, interested in art and working with artists and is considering a Masters in Arts Administration. Before CUP, she was a Triangle Arts Association intern in Brooklyn. In her spare time back home, she cooks, facilitates children care, and fights for animal rights.

Jeff Lai

Jeff Lai is a creative director and graphic designer. He started his studio, Office of Jeff in 2004 and works with clients in every industry across a broad range of media including print, motion, and digital. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute. Office of Jeff worked on What is Affordable Housing?, Bodega Down Bronx, Making Policy Public, and the Zoning toolkit with CUP.

Tatiana Lam

Tatiana Lam is a graphic designer and motion graphics animator residing in NYC, specializing in broadcast packaging and communication design for social movements. Her aim is to address and build culture through design. She studied film and anthropology at Yale University. Currently, Tatiana works at Lorne Michael’s post-production house Broadway Video, collaborating with notable clients like NBC, SNL, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, the Emmys and various other award shows. Her work spans a wide range of design disciplines, but amongst her favorite projects are: a set of promos featuring an animated character called Tera Byte, set design for The More You Know, interactive works that reimagine historical photographs at 30 Rockefeller Center, a title sequence for the comedy series Tough Love, an animated infographic explaining economic inequity for Colorlines, and a network identity for the show Colored Criticism. 

Tatiana Lam

Tatiana Lam is a graphic designer and motion graphics animator residing in NYC, specializing in broadcast packaging and communication design for social movements. Her aim is to address and build culture through design. She studied film and anthropology at Yale University. Currently, Tatiana works at Lorne Michael’s post-production house Broadway Video, collaborating with notable clients like NBC, SNL, Nickelodeon, National Geographic, the Emmys and various other award shows. Her work spans a wide range of design disciplines, but amongst her favorite projects are: a set of promos featuring an animated character called Tera Byte, set design for The More You Know, interactive works that reimagine historical photographs at 30 Rockefeller Center, a title sequence for the comedy series Tough Love, an animated infographic explaining economic inequity for Colorlines, and a network identity for the show Colored Criticism. 

Carmen Rosa López

Carmen López is a design researcher and social innovator with the heart of an artist. She combines her visual communication skills, design thinking, and ethnographic research to positively impact the world. Born and raised in Ecuador, moved to California to study at Art Center College of Design. She became a resident at Fabrica of Benetton in Treviso, Italy, and worked at La Facultad, an independent advertising agency in Ecuador. Her diverse background has given her the right tools to work on her passion to make a difference. She recently graduated from the Design for Social Innovation MFA program at SVA.

Matt Ledwidge

Matt was a CUP design Intern and a senior at the Cooper Union School of Art. He is excited about cities, mapping, landscapes, archaeology, history and philosophy. He makes graphic design, public interventions, videos and images. He believes that art and design can change the way that people understand and experience their cities in unexpected ways. Originally from Toronto, Canada he enjoys going for underprepared hikes in the wilderness and biking around Brooklyn.

Katie Lee

Katie Lee is a graphic designer working in print, interactive, and motion design and co-founder of DOME. She began working as a print designer for Shapiro Design Associates in New York, then as a web designer for Razorfish in its New York and San Francisco offices. In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked for Brand Integration Group/Ogilvy & Mather, ReVerb, and Prologue Films. Lee was a Creative Director at Local Projects where she designed interactive experiences for museums, cultural institutions, and public spaces from 2007 to 2014. She holds a BA in art from Yale College and an MFA in graphic design from the Yale University School of Art. katielee.info 

DOME is working with CUP on the ULURP Envisioning Development Toolkit.

Legal Services NYC

Legal Services NYC is the nation’s largest organization devoted exclusively to providing free civil legal services to the poor. Their mission is to provide expert legal assistance that improves the lives and communities of low-income New Yorkers. They represent individuals and families, and conduct advocacy that brings about systemic change for large numbers of low-income New Yorkers. All of their work is designed to address heart-wrenching legal problems faced by low-income families and to maximize the impact of our resources by prioritizing local community needs, representation of individuals and families, litigation and advocacy and community education that has a broad impact. CUP worked with the Language Access Project at Legal Services NYC on Language Rights are Civil Rights, a foldout guide about your rights to an interpreter when accessing government services in NYC.

Josh Lerner

Josh Lerner is Director of The Participatory Budgeting Project, an organization that works with elected officials, public agencies, and community groups to open up public budgets to public participation. He completed his PhD in Politics at The New School for Social Research and a Masters in Planning at the University of Toronto, and he has taught at Fordham University and The New School. He has published in venues such as “The Christian Science Monitor”, “The National Civic Review”, “YES!” Magazine, “The Good Society”, “Shelterforce”, and the “Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management”.

Jade Levine

Jade Levine was CUP’s 2019 Summer Intern. She is a recent graduate of Barnard College, where she studied urban sociology and wrote her senior thesis on place-based activism in Manhattan’s Chinatown. She facilitates workshops and creates programs around the intersections of arts and activism with both Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls and the W.O.W. Project, and is working on making the perfect applesauce.