We are JAK Artistic Design, an independent company primarily based in the western suburbs of Chicago, with outposts near St. Louis, Minneapolis, and Portland. Fantastic (pictured, bottom right) arrives at Droga5 following a brief interval as a freelance product designer with Tech Girls, following ten months as a design director with R/GA New York and six months as a freelance design director with the agency previous to that.

To offer you actual-world expertise via live briefs and the work placements, we collaborate with both international media and communication organisations (reminiscent of our accomplice Hearst Magazines UK) as well as local artistic companies on our doorstep in Cambridge—one of the UK’s centres of modern creativity and innovation.

With over 30 years experience in advertising and marketing, recruitment promoting, graphic design and design for print we are able to guide most shoppers by means of the toughest of communication problems and ship an attractive, effective solution on time and on finances.

The instrument, created by the product designer Philippa Mothersill , who works as a research assistant at MIT Media Lab’s Object-Based mostly Media group, was itself inspired by the design process on the Cambridge, Massachusetts, department of Ideo, according to the venture’s web site.

With employees and visiting tutors energetic within the artistic industries worldwide as researchers and practitioners, as artists, designers, writers, and curators you may be exposed to points, debates and challenges which can be reworking art and design apply in the 21st century.