AIGA NY Portfolio Reviewers

NYC-based designer. After co-founding and running his own studio in Uruguay, he moved to New York to work under Michael Bierut at Pentagram. Now Associate Design Director at PORTO ROCHA, where he has spent the last several years leading some of the studio’s most defining work. He leads projects for global clients including MASP, Sundance Film Festival, Netflix and Google. He is also the co-founder of the independent book publisher Vernacular and co-author of Artificial Typography (2022), exploring how AI and design can coexist and expand creative practice.

Named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company, “one of the most influential designers working today” by GDUSA, and a “Woman of Influence” by Success magazine, Debbie Millman is also an author, artist, educator, designer, and podcast pioneer. She is the host of the Webby award-winning podcast Design Matters, one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world; Chair of the first-ever Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, co-publisher of TheRumpus.net and the author of eight books. Debbie is the recipient of a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and a Lifetime Achievement award from AIGA, the Professional Association for Design. She is currently a Harvard Business School Executive Fellow.

As Partner and CCO at NewWorld, Clarence leads the agency’s Creative Studio, overseeing all brand strategy, campaign development, design, and creative execution. With 20+ years of agency experience, he has helped world-class organizations discover and evolve their identities through internationally recognized, award-winning creative – translating a deep understanding of culture, design, and messaging into impactful and cultured expression.

Grounded in art history and design tradition, he draws on the full continuum of creative expression to push culture forward. He holds his teams to the highest standards of craft and storytelling, and embraces emerging creative tools and technologies as an extension of craft, not a replacement for it. A strong believer in inclusive design, he always actively builds towards a design future for all.fall

Glen Cummings is a graphic designer, educator, and musician. He’s founding partner of MTWTF, an associate professor of Communication Design at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), and a guitar player / musical artist. Glen received his MFA from Yale University School of Art, where he served as lecturer from 2002 to 2018. Glen is a former Vice President of AIGA/NY, a Design Trust for Public Space fellow and the founder of GDNYC, a consortium of designers and educators that promote design research. Glen lives on the Lower East Side of NYC together with his wife Elisa, and several thousand ungovernable pigeons.

Carlos Bocai is a Brazilian graphic designer and educator based in Brooklyn. He is currently a design director at Base NY and previously worked at JKR, &Walsh, and Gretel. Together with Julia B. Aguiar, he teaches the class Decoding Identities at the online school Aprender Design. His work has earned recognition from the Type Directors Club, multiple editions of the Latin American Design Awards, and The One Club for Creativity. Carlos was nominated a Young Gun 22 by The One Club for Creativity and was included on the 2025 Most Popular Graphic Designers Hotlist by Creative Boom.

Caprice Humphries is a DC-bred, Brooklyn-based designer, archivist, and visual storyteller exploring the intersections of cultural memory, materiality, and emerging media. Since 2019, she has collaborated with artists, brands, and cultural organizations to translate African Diasporic histories into visual identities, digital archives, and publications. Grounded in research and narrative, her practice reflects a belief in design as a tool for storytelling, cultural exchange, and creative exploration.

Caprice holds an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School, where she studied race and representation, brand experience design, and transmedia storytelling. Her current practice extends into multimedia art, weaving archival research, paint, and assemblage to explore what generations inherit, lose, and recover.

As a Partner at SYLVAIN, Daniel leads the development of the design practice. With experience at both creative agencies and brand consultancies like Mother and Gretel, Daniel’s focus lies at bridging the gap between business and expression, applying his thinking globally with the likes of Apple, Nike, the New York Times, IBM, Etsy, PayPal, Calvin Klein, Marriott and Noma. He frequently comments on the structures and systems of design, business and strategy across publications, conferences and podcasts.

Mark Kingsley got his start designing album packages for John Coltrane, Pat Metheny, Quincy Jones, Ginger Baker, and Jewel — earning a Grammy nomination for his work for Blue Note Records in 2001. He then moved into corporate branding. At Landor, he was global creative lead on the Citi account. As Executive Strategy Director at Collins, he developed the new global positioning for Ogilvy and guided Equinox into the luxury hotel space. Currently, his boutique studio, Malcontent, serves everyone from fin-tech startups to living legends and Pulitzer Prize winners. Mark teaches brand strategy through the lens of philosophy and critical theory at the School of Visual Arts Masters in Branding program. His best-selling book, “Universal Principles of Branding,” was published in 2023, and “Brands in the Age of AI” came out last December — with translations appearing in Brazil, China, and Indonesia.

Nora is an Associate Design Director at SYLVAIN. She has helped clients solve a wide range of creative problems, from brand identity & packaging design to brand architecture and product implications and does this by stretching across the entire design process, from early strategic thinking to final production outputs. Her most recent work in these spaces has been with brands like Amazon, Netflix, Paramount and the Chan-Zuckerburg Initiative.

Hunter Tura is a Principal, leading Strategy & Innovation at HUSH. Previously, he was the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at The Creative, an award-winning brand strategy and design firm with offices in New York and London, and from 2010 to 2019, he served as the President & CEO of Bruce Mau Design.

Throughout his career, he has worked with leading organizations such as SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, Marina Bay Sands, Westinghouse, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Lucid Motors, Changi Airport Group, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Netflix, Audi, Asics, Lululemon, Allstate, Samsung, Unilever, and Sonos on a range of brand initiatives.

He curated the Canada Pavilion at the 2018 London Design Biennale and served as a juror for the Presidential Design Awards in Singapore in 2017 and the 2019 Florence Design Biennale. He has served on the design faculty of Designskolen Kolding in Denmark, the University of California and Columbia University, and has lectured and facilitated workshops at Universities and conferences worldwide. He appeared as a commentator in the documentaries “Design Canada” (2017) and BBC’s “The Great Art Fraud” (2025).

He is a graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he completed his thesis under the direction of Rem Koolhaas and has a BA from Haverford College in the Growth and Structure of Cities. Tura serves on the Alumni Council for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and was the Secretary of the Board of Trustees at the Van Alen Institute in New York.

With 25 years of experience as a graphic designer and creative director, Shigeto Akiyama helps organizations transform their brands through branding and marketing campaigns — elevating brand integrity and driving growth without compromising equity. He has also redesigned more than twenty magazine and newspaper titles, spanning both newsstand and trade publications.

Selected clients include: Apple, Google, Netflix, The Motley Fool, The Hartford, BankUnited, The Cleveland Orchestra, Van Alen Institute, Gotham Park, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and American Civil Liberties Union.

He also mentors emerging talent and has sat on juries for Society of Illustrators and Society of Publication Designers. He is currently a board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York chapter (AIGA NY). His work has been recognized internationally.

Antonio Nogueira is a New York-based designer. Born in Brazil, he received his BA in 2015 from University of Espírito Santo. In 2016, he moved to Barcelona, Spain to pursue a Master’s degree in brand design & packaging. During his five-year stay, he worked at Mucho, an international design studio founded in Barcelona. Antonio had the opportunity to work with international clients across different disciplines and market areas, including European Investment Found (EIF), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (Macba), Museum Picasso of Barcelona, Fundacion Joan Miro, Catalana Occident Group, and many others.

In 2019, he pursued a second Master’s degree in graphic design, studying strategic thinking and creative business, Postgrafica at IDEP Barcelona, new visual narratives for libraries.

In 2021, Antonio joined Pentagram. Since joining, Antonio has worked on designing the brand and packaging for the testing kits for New York Pandemic Response Lab, the rebranding for Galaxy Digital, Splash Financial, Skolem, Case Western Reserve University, Auros Home, The The Hartford Insurance Group, The Frick Collection, and many others.

I’m a Staff Design Systems Designer at LinkedIn, where I work at the intersection of brand and product. My focus spans components, iconography, patterns, and graphic expression, and how those pieces come together into a system our product teams build with every day. A big part of my work is writing the guidance and technical documentation that make the system usable, and working hands-on with engineers so what we design is implemented faithfully in code. I also act as a liaison with our Creative Systems team so the LinkedIn brand shows up with clarity and character across the product, and I partner closely with product teams to help them use the system with intention, because the best design systems are the ones people actually want to use.

Amelia Nash is a Canadian-born designer, brand strategist, and creative director based in New York City. With over 15 years of experience, she builds bold, sustainable brands that inspire, educate, and connect, pairing creativity with data-driven insight to turn ideas into memorable visual narratives. Formerly Director of Operations for the School of Visual Arts’ Masters in Branding program. Also a Senior Staff Writer at PRINT Magazine, where she covers branding, culture and design. A certified RGD member, she serves as Secretary on its Board of Directors and co-chairs its Education Committee. She also sits on the AIGA NY Board of Directors, empowering designers through its Education Workgroup. Amelia is a proud pet mama to a Flemish Giant rabbit.

Daniel Arenas is a Colombian born, NY based designer, focused on transforming some of the biggest brands in the world. As the EVP – Head of Design at Publicis NY, Daniel leads the design team to bring to life brands, campaigns, and experiences at scale for Fortune 500 brands. After being a design director at Redscout, Daniel created and led Sunday Morning, a design collective later acquired by Triptk (part of Havas) to jumpstart its design practice.

Ana is a designer + art director with 10 years of experience building branded worlds for companies across an array of industries. The work she creates is always in service of storytelling — rooted in strategy, culture, and research. From conception to execution, her goal is to create work that is emotionally compelling, culturally sound, and visually sleek.

Jesse Reed is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in Youngstown, OH and holds a Bachelor of Science in Design from the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design. Prior to founding Order, he was an Associate Partner under Michael Bierut at Pentagram’s NY office, where his client’s included NYU, Hillary Clinton, Wildlife Conservation Society, Syracuse University, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

At Order, Jesse leads a team to develop brand systems for institutions such as Williams College, MoMA, Apple, Herman Miller, and Knoll. In 2022 he launched the firm’s eponymous type foundry, Order Type Foundry (OTF).

In addition to Order, he co-founded Standards Manual, an independent publishing imprint dedicated to the preservation of graphic design history. Jesse is also the CEO and co-founder of Standards, a SaaS product for publishing brand guidelines. Jesse has taught at The University of Cincinnati, Parsons School of Design, and LABASAD, respectfully.

Stina is the Creative Director at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Since joining in 2023, she has led the internal team responsible for shaping the institution’s brand identity across print collateral, exhibition graphics, and marketing campaigns etc.

Prior to MoMA, she served as Executive Creative Director at Wealthsimple, a Canadian fintech company, and earlier as a Creative Director in The New York Times’ marketing department. Stina is a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA from Yale University.

Natasha Chandani is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer and educator and a partner at CLANADA, an international design practice specializing in research-driven publications for cultural, academic, civic, and commercial institutions. Some of CLANADA’s clients include AIGA New York, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Het Nieuwe Instituut, MIT Press, MoMA, Monacelli Press, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Princeton University School of Architecture. The practice’s work has received recognition from AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers, the Type Directors Club Tokyo Annual Awards, ADG Laus, the ICO-D Excellence Award, and the Croatian Design Awards, among others.

Natasha has worked on publications for cultural and academic institutions and publishers in the United States, the Netherlands, the UK, and India. Her experience includes designing books for individual MoMA trustees, working on Volume, the Amsterdam-based architecture publication, and contributing to Al Manakh, a study of the Gulf’s rapidly changing urban condition produced for the International Design Forum in Dubai.

She teaches graphic design at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Penny Hardy is the founder and creative director of PS New York, a
multidisciplinary design studio established in 2004. Her work spans cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations, and the built environment—connecting people to place through design and storytelling. She has collaborated with clients such as Open House New York, AIA Center for Architecture, Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and Compass New Development. Previously, Penny worked at advertising agencies and design studios including Euro RSCG MVBMS Circle, Agency.com, 2×4, and Pentagram. She holds an MFA from Yale University, where she has also been a visiting critic and lecturer.

Ryan Bugden is an independent typeface and graphic designer based in Brooklyn. He creates custom typefaces for clients, and co-runs the design practice R&M with Michelle Ando. He also co-teaches the typeface design program Type@Cooper Condensed. Before graduating from Type and Media in 2019, he studied graphic design at RISD and typeface design in the Type@Cooper Extended Program, and has held design roles at various NYC design studios.

Joey is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY whose work spans across print, digital, environment, and motion. He’s previously worked as a designer at Pentagram, United Talent Agency’s Brand Studio, a senior creative at YARD NYC, and as an independent designer. He’s currently working as a senior designer at COLORSxSTUDIOS and as an adjunct instructor at Fashion Institute of Technology. Joey specializes in design and art direction for art, culture, entertainment, fashion, and music. His past clients include Diptyque Paris, Film Independent, The Harvard GSD, Hudson River Park, Hulu, Levi’s, Netflix, Saturday Night Live, Sony, UNIQLO, VICE Media, VOGUE Runway, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Music Group, and The Wing.

His work has been recognized by the Type Director’s Club, The Art Director’s Club, The Society of Publication Designers, AIGA, The New York Times, and New York Magazine. Joey holds a BFA in graphic design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design.

Alex Center is a Brooklyn-based Creative Director and Founder of CENTER, the award-winning branding studio known for building bold, culturally relevant brands. Before starting his own company, he spent nearly a decade at The Coca-Cola Company, helping shape the global brands vitaminwater and smartwater. At CENTER, he’s worked with giants like Apple and New Balance, breakout startups like Kin Euphorics and Liquid Death and created new to world brands like BERO, Ayoh and Riff. In 2026, Creative Boom named Alex one of it’s Top 20 Graphic Designers as voted by the creative community. He’s also a Professor at SVA’s Masters in Branding program, a member of the Art Directors Club board and cohost of the world famous podcast Front & Center.