ABOUT THE GIRL

Candy is an artist, designer, and urban planner in New York City. With a background in architecture, urban planning, and graphic design, she likes to make information more accessible and engaging through design and the creative use of public space. She is a big fan of cross-disciplinary collaboration and is into empowering citizens by improving the ways people communicate and share information. She has had the opportunity to work in Nairobi, New Orleans, Vancouver, Johannesburg, and New York City on community-based design projects.

In 2001 she co-founded creative agency Red Antenna with James Reeves and Stephen Baker. She went on to become Assistant Art Director at The New York Times, and she later received her Master's degree in urban planning from Columbia University.

Thanks to nerdy computer programs and vintage keyboards, she also makes minimal techno and big electro. She released her record Typography in 2003 and has performed in NYC and Grenoble. Her art work has been featured in the Conflux Festival, Opensource Gallery, and MC2 Center.

Candy now spends her time making public art, working on community-based projects, and designing things at Red Antenna. She likes fables, big typography, and world's fairs, and has won few awards that compare to 2nd place in rodeo horse grooming when she was 7.

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3RD GRADE QUESTIONS REVISITED

Favorite color: red
Favorite food: sushi
Favorite beverage: wine

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CONTACT

Say hi to her here:
candy(at)redantenna.tv

See more of her here:
Design 21
Facebook
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LastFM
LinkedIn
Pulse
Twitter
Yelp

Send things to her here:
Red Antenna
139 Fulton Street Suite 317
New York NY 10038

Site design by Candy.

EDUCATION

M.S. Urban Planning
Columbia University

B.F.A. Graphic Design
University of Michigan

B.S. Architecture
University of Michigan

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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2007
Columbia University Urban Planning Award for Outstanding Contribution to Leadership in Planning Education

2007
Global Studio Johannesburg Fellowship

2006
Spatial Information Design Lab New Orleans Fellowship

2006
Global Studio Vancouver Fellowship

2003
American Design Award

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EXHIBITS

Figment
Governors Island NY . June 2008
Featured The Pedestrian Timeline

Windows Brooklyn
Brooklyn NY . June 2008
Featured I've Lived

Illuminators
Koltsovo International Airport, Yekaterinburg Russia . April-June 2008
Featured Hours Away

Conflux Festival
Brooklyn NY . September 2007
Featured Cripplebush Ghost Tour

American Planning Association National Conference
San Antonio TX . April 2006
Featured Brooklyn Bridge Wayfinding

Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance
OPENSOURCE . Champaign-Urbana IL . Apr–May 2005
Featured Freedom Butter and Project Moustache

Stick Up, New York!
New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo . Jan–Mar 2005
Featured Scenes from Grand City

Meanwhile
Tonic . New York NY . May 2003
Featured Alphagirls

Bloom: Flora and Electronics in Nine Parts
Taubman Gallery . Ann Arbor MI . May–Jun 2001
Featured video art installation

The Future and the City
5th International Festival for Architecture in Video . University of Florence . Florence
Italy . Nov–Dec 2000
Featued video art installation created under Martha Skinner of fieldoffice

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design
by Chen Design Associates
2006, Cincinnati: How Books
Featured Typography record packaging
View book

The Question of New Orleans
by the Spatial Information Design Lab
2006, New York: Columbia University
Featured New Orleans mapping project

Stickers!: From the First International Sticker Awards
by Andreas Ulrich
2006, Berlin: Gestalten Verlag
Featured Project Moustache
View book

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Associate
Global Studio
Johannesburg South Africa . 2007 - present

Co-founder and Creative Director
Red Antenna
New York NY . 2001 - present

Research Designer
Infrastructure and Poverty Action Lab
New York NY . 2006-2007

Assistant Art Director
The New York Times
New York NY . 2004-2005