Emily Conrad [Photo: Jesse Winter]
ITP Alum Emily Conrad was profiled in Fast Company for her work as founded and president of the architecture and digital design studio, Tessellate Studio.
Tessellate is an integrated design and technology studio. We think about design for museums, exhibit spaces, and how visitors are going to interact in physical space in ways that are meaningful for them.
We’re often tasked with designing a whole space. Someone comes to us with a short brief and a mission, then it’s our job to determine what the master narrative is, and that becomes the conceptual blueprint for the project. My personal favorite part of the process is finding the connections between different concepts and figuring out how you can relay those and bubble them up, so that your audience feels and understands those connections as well.
It gets more tactical when you’re designing the best way to convey and teach an idea. That breaks out into the multiple disciplines, and that’s where interactive design or digital design plays a key role, which is what I lead up in our studio, as well as the overarching experiential design. Then my business partner, Joseph Karadin, trained as an architect, takes on the physical design part of it. We’re always working collaboratively, making sure it all comes together along with our visual, narrative concept and content designers.
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