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Talia Cotton, designer & coderTalia Cotton is a designer, coder, and educator and a leading specialist in the intersection of branding and technology. Talia is the founder and creative director of Cotton, a new technology-focused creative agency in New York City, and teaches Core Interaction at Parsons School of Design. She advocates the strategic application of technology as a method for more meaningful design.Talia Cotton, designer & coder Contact Awards & Nominations Bio Interviews & Podcasts Speaking Workshops Project Press Critic & Judging Teaching Years of Gratitude... Students, Core Interaction Portfolio Archive Selected Work Talia Cotton Specialist in branding & technologyExploring and propelling new futures of designthrough data and code Cotton Design Founder & Creative Director Contact Inquiries: info@cotton.design Instagram: @taliasaccount LinkedIn: in/taliacotton More Info: cotton.design Awards & Nominations Creative Review Award for Creative Innovation (2025) Communication Arts Best-In-Show (2025) Communication Arts Award of Excellence (2025 x3) Young Guns 20 (2022) GDUSA Responsible Designer to Watch (2022) TDC Award in Communication Design (2021, 2022, 2023) D&AD Pencil Winner (2020) Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards (Nominee, 2022) Distinguished Teaching Award (Nominee, 2022) AIGA Command X (Semifinalist, 2018) Bio Talia Cotton is a designer, coder, and educator, and is recognized as a leading specialist in the intersection of design and technology. In 2023 she founded Cotton, a creative agency pursuing purposeful design work with code. Talia also teaches intro and advanced coding at Parsons School of Design. Before Cotton, Talia led data-driven and algorithmic design on two teams at Pentagram, while running an independent design and code practice. Her clients include Google Arts & Culture, the New York Times, the Gates Foundation, and MIT. Talia was named a "Responsible Designer to Watch" by GDUSA and was awarded the Young Guns Award for creative professionals under 30. She has been recognized by The One Club, TDC, Fast Company, and It's Nice That, and has inspired audiences at the international Google Visual Design Summit, OFFF Tel Aviv, and Future London Academy, among others. Interviews & Podcasts Front & Center Unsolicited Advice: With Talia Cotton May 2025 Alex Center & Kevin Batory See No Evil Livestream On building Cotton, navigating bias as a woman founder, and envisioning the future of creative technology April 2025 Thiago Maia & James Wignall Mindful Creative (on Spotify) Optimism as a strategy for creativity without limits April 2025 with Radim Malinic Creative Review Talia Cotton on Coding and Creativity May 2024 by Aimee Mclaughlin Women at Work (on Spotify) Talia Cotton, designer, coder and educator, on how to merge technology and creativity and break new ground with love and passion May 2024 by Hey Studio, powered by Automattic Creative Capes (by Future London Academy) Talia Cotton on starting an agency after leaving Pentagram April 2024 with Ekaterina Solomeina Future London Academy Talia Cotton on starting an agency after leaving Pentagram April 2024 with Ekaterina Solomeina tim rodenbröker creative coding A conversation with Talia Cotton April 2024 at Glashaus, Barcelona TYPEONE Magazine Issue 07 Designer Feature & Interview October 2023 with Amber Weaver Envato Meet the Experts Meet the Experts: Pushing Design Possibilities Through Coding with Talia Cotton June 2023 by Kelsie Rimmer Page Magazine Interview mit Talia Cotton: Code Can Solve the Problem of Design Bias" May 2023 with Anne Kaiser The One Club for Creativity Morning Buzz with Adam Izen: Season 2 Episode 2 April 2023 with Adam Izen TYPEONE Magazine Issue 06 Designer's List Feature March 2023 The Brand Identity (November 2022) Talia Cotton on working at Pentagram, inspiring students and creating meaningful design with code November 2022 with Poppy Thaxter GDUSA Responsible Designer to Watch November 2022 The One Club Young Guns 20: Talia Cotton Interview November 2022 Ladies, Wine & Design Talia Cotton, graphic designer and coder November 2019 The Design Kids Why designers are turned-off by coding, coding course, and the impact automation and algorithms could have on design July 2019 GDUSA Students to Watch Feature February 2018 Parsons School of Design Alumni Spotlight Feature February 2018 Speaking OOO (Out of Office) Jakarta TBA September 2025 Jakarta, Indonesia INTL Festival TBA September 2025 Glasgow, Scotland Typographics TBA June 2025 New York, NY City & Regional Magazine Association On AI Ethics June 2025 Denver, CO Fast Company Middle East TBA May 2025 Doha, Qatar École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) Background, Philosophy, Methodology, Epilogue April 2025 Lausanne, Switzerland MICA GD MFA Spring Lecture Series April 2025 Baltimore, MD Paradiso Festival [Untitled] March 2025 Mérida, Mexico Nicer Tuesdays On coding, creativity, and becoming your own boss November 2024 New York, NY Pratt Institute Guest Lecture November 2024 Brooklyn, NY RGD's DesignThinkers Toronto Designing What Doesn't Exist... Yet November 2024 Toronto, ON Kikk Festival Designing What Doesn't Exist... Yet October 2024 Namur, Belgium Basquerville (Closing Speaker) We Are Clearly the Most Amazing, Capable People in the Entire World The End Go Home October 2024 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Behind the Scenes by COLLINS & Molly This Will Be Boring October 2024 New York, NY Screen to Screen at Wix Playground Panel with Rich Tu, Hezi Jacob July 2024 New York, NY Bump Festival On Newness June 2024 Kortrijk, Belgium Canva Create “Branding at Scale” (Panel led by Mark Wilson) May 2024 Los Angeles, CA FITC Toronto Outdoing Ourselves April 2024 Toronto, Canada Latin American Design Festival (Closing Speaker) Designing What Doesn’t Exist... Yet April 2024 Lima, Peru OFFF Barcelona Designing What Doesn’t Exist... Yet April 2024 Barcelona, Spain D&AD APAC On Making Meaning Through Code January 2024 China (Virtual) Wix Playground Why I Code January 2024 Tel Aviv (Virtual) ACU Art & Design Coding: A Design Philosophy December 2023 Abilene, TX (Virtual) Geneva University of Art and Design Designing with Code in 20 Minutes November 2023 Geneva (Virtual) Type01 Launch at The One Club for Creativity Overcoming November 2023 New York, NY Parsons MPS Communication Design What Does It All Mean? November 2023 New York, NY MIT Media Lab Future Sketches Lunch Lecture Series: “The role computation plays in my (various) online typography works, and my recent foundation of design agency Cotton” September 2023 Cambridge, MA (Virtual) Carnegie Mellon University Design Lecture Series Brick Walls March 2023 Pittsburgh, PA UIC School of Art & Design "Embrace the Impossible”, and Other Lessons in Coding March 2023 Chicago, IL Mason Gross School of Design (Rutgers University) A Love Story February 2023 New Brunswick, NJ Lightricks Digital Interface as Brand Expression January 2023 Virtual The New York Times Talia Times Three (Start/End/In-between) December 2022 New York, NY Mother Design Motherloving Code! December 2022 New York, NY University of Pennsylvania Design Senior Seminar: Meet a Designer December 2022 Virtual UH Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts I Hate Technology: A Talk November 2022 Houston, TX Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Talia Cotton and the Incessant Quest for Meaning in Technology October 2022 Provdence, RI InScript Experimental Type Festival (TDC) Coding Typography: A Taxonomy October 2022 Virtual Brillo Festival (for illo.tv) Dearest, Darlingest, Most Wonderful Technology: My Evolving Relationship October 2022 Turin, Italy Buzzfeed News Why I Code October 2022 New York, NY OFFF Tel Aviv 2022 Designing With Code September 2022 Tel Aviv, Israel F+F School of Art and Design Zurich: Jan Steinbach’s ‘Design for Screens’ class Why I Code (Abridged) September 2022 Zurich, Switzerland (Virtual) Wix Playground Academy (Tel Aviv Outpost) What Coding Can Do/What Coding Can’t Do July 2022 Tel Aviv, Israel (Virtual) EditorX / Dribbble Webinar “Digital design in 2022: How to grow as a creator” How I became a designer/coder & other common questions I wish I knew the answers to not so very long ago but instead had to figure them out myself because desiging with code literally wasn’t a thing: A Quick Talk July 2022 Virtual AIGA Porfolio Development Studio My Portfolio, What I Do, How I Got Here July 2022 Virtual Future London Academy: Future of Branding Week What Coding Can Do/What Coding Can’t Do June 2022 London, UK Wix Playground Academy (NYC Outpost) What Code Can Do / What Code Can't Do June 2022 New York, NY Design Museum Week The most important coding lesson I’ve ever learned (and the runners up) April 2022 Virtual Pentagram Off-Duty Talk Series A talk on algorithmic music visualization April 2022 New York, NY Prophet Visiting Designer Talks The 8 Methodologies of Algorithmic Design (Abridged) April 2022 Virtual Google Visual Design Summit (2021) Why We Do What We Do November 2021 Virtual Parsons Communication Design Lecture Series Why We Do What We Do October 2021 Virtual Verizon Adfellows Internal Introduction Hello June 2021 Virtual AIGA ModMag Conference 2018 The Print/Digital Crossover June 2018 New York, NY Workshops École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) Audioreactive Concert Poster Series April 2025 Lausanne, Switzerland MICA Audioreactive Animated Spotify Playlist Covers April 2025 Baltimore, MD Paradiso Think Like a Coder (No-Code Workshop) March 2025 Mérida, Mexico Basquerville Festival Interactive Typography October 2024 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Latin American Design Festival Interactive Typography April 2024 Lima, Peru Typographics TypeLab Creative Coding/Interactive Posters Summer 2023 New York, NY Wix Playground Academy Summer 2023 Bootcamp Creative Coding/Interactive Posters Summer 2023 New York, NY UIC School of Art & Design Interactive Posters March 2023 Chicago, IL Wix Playground Interactive Letterforms (Creative Coding Series) Interactive Letterforms February 2023 New York, NY Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) Constructing an Interactive Valentine's Card February 2022 New Brunswick, NJ UH Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts Coding Typography/Interactive Letterforms November 2022 Houston, TX Buzzfeed News Interactive Headlines October 2022 New York, NY Google Visual Design Summit Making the Generative Form November 2021 Virtual Project Press Visuelle Backslash by Cotton Design September 2024 Backslash Creative Review Art organisation Backslash gets an appropriately slanted identity September 2024 Backslash Fast Company This brilliant font is made entirely out of backslashes: A new branding system by Cotton Design for Cornell Tech’s art organization uses a single shape. September 2024 Backslash The Brand Identity Defying norms at -21°: how Cotton Design weaved technology and art into Backslash’s visual language September 2024 Backslash Brand New (Under Consideration) You Take That Back September 2024 Backslash GDUSA Cotton Creates Generative Brand ID For Creative Week June 2024 Creative Week Brand New (Under Consideration) Data Mining May 2024 Boundary Analytics The Brand Identity In Boundary Analytics’ data-driven identity, Cotton Design ensures that the concept is king May 2024 Boundary Analytics It’s Nice That Talia Cotton departs Pentagram to launch Cotton, an agency specifically for coding and design February 2023 Cotton The New York Times The Year in Illustration: The most memorable New York Times illustrations of 2022 December 2022 NYT Illustration Fast Company This unreal website embraces the most notorious UX design trend October 2022 The Last Agency The Brand Identity The Edit: five projects including Talia Cotton’s generative identity for Guilty by Association May 2022 Guilty By Association Fonts In Use Wyth (Feature) May 2022 Wyth Fast Company This logo constantly redraws itself April 2022 Guilty By Association It's Nice That Can design be unbiased? Possibly, with Talia Cotton’s infinite logo identity made using code April 2022 Guilty By Association GDUSA Infinitely Generative ‘Unbiased’ Logo April 2022 Guilty By Association Logo Lounge In Search of Non-Biased Design April 2022 Guilty by Association Creative Bloq This awesome hand-drawn logo changes every time you see it April 2022 Guilty By Association CommArts Pentagram updated this iconic New York cultural center with a new identity that eliminates confusion and opens possibilities. June 2022 92NY Grafik An Interactive, Audio-Centric Website And Updated Brand For Vig Bar September 2022 Vig Bar Mindsparkle Mag Vig Bar (Feature) May 2022 Vig Bar Admire The Web Vig Bar (Feature) May 2022 Vig Bar Hover Stat.es Although visually charming, this interactive project highlights the serious problem of airborne microplastics December 2021 Plastic Air Print Mag ‘Plastic Air’ is an Interactive Experience Showing Just How Prevalent Airborne Microplastics Are April 2021 Plastic Air Fast Company Drink lattes? Order takeout? You're breathing in invisible toxins April 2021 Plastic Air It's Nice That This website visualises the tiny, invisible bits of plastic floating in the air around us April 2021 Plastic Air What Design Can Do New interactive website visualises the microplastics in the air we breathe April 2021 Plastic Air EditorX 2020 in review: A year in web design December 2020 Dear New York The New York Times The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week July 2020 Dear New York SiteInspire Intro to Coding for Designers (Feature) 2020 Intro to Coding for Designers The Next Web 10 web design trends that will dominate your screen in 2020 December 2019 Intro to Coding for Designers Google Design Google Design’s Best of 2019 December 2019 Recursive Minisite TypeWolf Site of the Day 2019 Portfolio Site 2019 TypeWolf Top 40 Favorite Designer Portfolio Sites 2019 Portfolio Site 2019 Critic & Judging OCAD External Examiner April 2025 Toronto, Canada Creative Review Annual Awards Judge April 2025 Global Young Ones Judge April 2025 Global ADCC Awards Design Jury Fall 2024 Toronto, Canada Yale School of Art Year-End Critic Spring 2024 New Haven, CT University of Pennsylvania Senior Thesis Visiting Critic Spring 2023 Philadelphia, PA Latin American Design Awards Jury Member - Digital March 2023 Virtual Society for Publication Designers - SPD 58 Digital Jury February 2023 Virtual Wix Playground Academy (Tel Aviv Outpost) Portfolio Review Summer 2022 Virtual Wix Playground Academy (New York Outpost) Portfolio Review Summer 2022 Virtual Mason Gross School of the Arts (at Rutgers University) Thesis Critic May 2022 New Brunswick, NJ Teaching Next Level Coding Core Interaction: Coding Algorithmic Print Design Intro to Coding for Designers Years of Gratitude... ... to Alon Krausz, my high school math teacher who cultivated my love for math, and made it possible to pass it on to others... to Brendan Griffiths, a former coding teacher who taught me good design is more important than good coding... to E. Roon Kang, one of the most brilliant and humble designers I’ve ever met... to Justin Bakse, the best teacher at Parsons and an absolute gem, and has undoubtedly changed hundreds of students’ lives and still going... to Kevin Brainard, a former teacher who designs with wit, brilliance and chutzpa, and always an advocate... to Michael McCaughley, one of the most talented designers I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with... to Mohamed Elhawary. Lol. He’s my ex! It didn’t work out, but we spent many late nights designing side-by-side... to Nikki Makagnasar, a bright designer and coder and genuinely a lovely human... to Michael Bierut. Some people ask, “What Would Jesus Do?” I ask, “What Would Michael Bierut do?”... and to all my students, and my incredible team at Cotton. Students, Core Interaction Fall 2023 Fall 2022 Spring 2022 Fall 2021 Portfolio Archive 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 digital experience generator tool Marc Jacobs Fragrances Interactive Valentines Cotton Team: Chris Kim generator tool interactive Converse Global Creative with WORKS website Alma with Whitney Badge generative print Cotton Holiday Card 2024 Cotton Team: Noah Schwadron interactive illustration Can You Trust a Robot With Your Holiday Shopping? for The Wall Street Journal interactive Our Keepers of 2023 for The New York Times digital experience Counterarchiving the Avant Garde with artist Asha Tamirisa brand website Yellow Technologies: Coming Soon Cotton team: Chris Kim brand website Moule & Polyzoides, Architects & Urbanists with Pentagram illustration “A History of ‘Record’ in the Newspaper of Record” for The New York Times event graphics interactive Elemental Interactive 2023 with Cotton interactive “The 22 Debates That Made Us Rage, Roll Our Eyes, And Change Our Minds in 2022” for The New York Times event graphics Emerson Collective Demo Day 2022 Concept with Pentagram digital experience 2022 Disconnected brand website The Last Agency interactive “Trump, The Black Hole, and Me” for The New York Times campaign I Voted Sticker with Pentagram brand Digital Architecture Lab with Pentagram generator tool Digital Architecture Lab Graphics Generator with Pentagram illustration “App Rules are Twisted to Absurdity” for The New York Times interactive Core Interaction Website Fall 2022 brand Guilty By Association generator tool Guilty By Association Logo Generator brand website Vig Bar interactive illustration “As Prices Skyrocket, Coupons Are Harder to Find Than Ever” for The New York Times brand generator tool The Huntington Sticker Generator interactive illustration “Our In-Person Shopping Hurts Big Tech” for The New York Times digital experience data vis Plastic Air for Google Arts & Culture / with Pentagram brand data vis Gates Foundation Equal is Greater Creative Platform with Pentagram editorial design data vis Swann Galleries Digital Catalogue with Pentagram website editorial Flatiron District Annual Report (2021) with Pentagram brand website SVA Masters in Branding with JKR, John Provencher, Ian Glover generator SVA Poster Generator website Garrett Corcoran website editorial Flatiron District Annual Report (2020) Pentagram brand Wyth with Pentagram brand campaign 92NY with Pentagram website Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma (Sundance) with Tal Midyan digital experience Dear New York with Pentagram brand website Judlowe with Pentagram brand website campaign Intro to Coding for Designers generator Central Park Typetester with Pentagram game Happy Birthday Sachi Card digital experience Science Stack: Tools Within Reach website Recursive Minisite for Google Fonts, with Math Practice, Arrow Type website taliacotton.com (2020) brand website Eldorado Architects with Pentagram campaign brand Cory Booker 2020 with Champions Design game website No Bad Vibes brand Supermajority with Champions Design website Mohamed Elhawary, Designer editorial Reader brand Rice Design Alliance with Champions Design website Rice Design Alliance Announcement Site with Champions Design game Give the Cat a Pizza (2016) website Eric McNeal with Tal Midyan brand website Memphis River Parks Partnership with Champions Design website campaign Parsons Electives editorial “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence” for The New York Timeshttps://taliacotton.com

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