Jeff Glendenning

Jeff Glendenning

TREASURER

Current job: Creative Director, NYTimes Brand Identity

Worst job: Unnamed mag that folded 3 months after my arrival as DD. (Condé!!!)

Quarantine location: Upstate / Manhattan / Denver

Quarantine hobby: Rock Climbing

Book you'd take to a desert island: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Sharon Van Etten, Are We There

…while cleaning: This Will Destroy You, S/T

…while creating: The Beatles, Revolver

What inspires you? Architecture

Creative crush: David Adjaye

Ben Grandgenett

Ben Grandgenett

Current job: Art Director, The New York Times Magazine

Worst job: Temporary worker at Best Buy

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY

Quarantine hobby: Cooking

Book you'd take to a desert island: Crime and Punishment so I can finally finish it.

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Bon Iver — Bon Iver

…while cleaning: Tame Impala — Currents

…while creating: J Dilla — Donuts

What inspires you? Travel, mezcal, and bodega signage

Creative crush: Abby Chen, of course!

Corliss Elizabeth Williams

Corliss Elizabeth Williams

Current job: Creative Director + Proprietor, The Lowry Estate

Worst job: Waitress at a country club. I am clumsy, and it was horrible.

Quarantine location: (Historic) Farmington, Michigan

Quarantine hobby: Going to estate sales

Book you'd take to a desert island: Sketch book

Album you need to listen to while cooking: NPR

…while cleaning: 90s cheesy pop albums

…while creating: NPR—It's just always on in my house!

What inspires you? Hearing stories about people, namely women–who are making it, and continuing to make it during these difficult times.

Creative crush: She's not a designer or photographer, per say, but I am madly in love and obsessed with Grace Jones.

David Matt

David Matt

Current job: VP Creative, Content & Strategy, Foundry 360, Meredith Corp's Content Agency

Worst job: I get paid to do this, even a bad day is good.

Quarantine location: Hoboken / Manhattan

Quarantine hobby: An unhealthy addiction to an unhealthier news cycle

Book you'd take to a desert island: Sand: 1,001 Uses

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Random setting on iTunes

…while cleaning: No music—somehow use this as thinking time...

…while creating: Random setting on iTunes

What inspires you? Brilliant executions of anything...from a meal to a cover to a car to a label to a....

Creative crush: Paula Scher, Raymond Loewy, Max Ernst, almost everyone in MoMA, endless list…

Ed Levine

Ed Levine

Current job: Creative Director, Psychology Today Magazine

Worst job: None; I learned something from each about culture, team work, and skills.

Quarantine location: New York City

Quarantine hobby: Guitar and Photography

Book you'd take to a desert island: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Doc Watson

…while cleaning: Cream, Disraeli Gears

…while creating: Nothing

What inspires you? Nature and good people

Creative crush: Cindy Sherman and Milton Glaser

Emem Offong

Emem Offong

Current job: VP, User Experience Design Lead, JPMorgan Chase

Worst job: Freelance art director, Affluent Page magazine

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY 

Quarantine hobby: Making everything in the NYT Cooking app

Book you'd take to a desert island: Anything by Junot Diaz, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Playlists count right? Spotify's Afropop, Release Radar, and New Music Friday.

…while cleaning: Podcasts count right? Pop Culture Happy Hour, Death, Sex & Money, Robinhood Snacks, and Back Issue.

…while creating: Once again, playlists are my jam. Spotify's Classical Focus, Jazz in the Background, and Vissi d'Arte - Opera for Orchestra. I tend to concentrate better listening to music without lyrics.

What inspires you? Music, color, relationships, risk, exercise

Creative crush: Antionette Carroll, Founder, Creative Reaction Lab 

Jamie Prokell

Jamie Prokell

Current job: Creative Director, Men's Health 

Worst job: The one I did what I thought the client wanted, instead of what I thought was right. 

Quarantine location: Maplewood, NJ

Quarantine hobby: Creating Weekly Playlists on Spotify under the name thelittlestboombox

Book you'd take to a desert island: The Power of One

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Anything new and good

…while cleaning: Bob Dylan - Blood on The Tracks

…while creating: Anything new and good

What inspires you? Seeing work where someone has come to a successful solution that is one that I would not have come to myself. It reminds me to continually try new things and not become complacent. 

Creative crush: Astrid Stavro, Alex Hunting, and Matt Willey

Katie Belloff

Katie Belloff

Current job: Art Director at Popular Science 

Worst job: Counter person for a pie shop. Almost all of my paychecks bounced and on some Saturdays I had to wear a "pie guy" mascot suit and wave to people on a busy street. 

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY

Quarantine hobby: Perfecting my banana bread

Book you'd take to a desert island: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Historian by Lucy Dacus

…while cleaning: Glass Houses by Billy Joel

…while creating: Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

What inspires you? So much! A big one is listening to other creatives speak about their work. Also including, but not limited to: 70's psychedelic type, band posters, letterpress & risograph prints, Sylvia Plath's poetry, and retro color palettes.

Creative crush: Kristin Eddington. She absolutely killed it when she worked at Bon App, and I still have a ton of screenshots of her work that I pull for inspiration.

Lauren Brown

Lauren Brown

Current job: Senior Visuals Editor at Glamour and Allure/Condé Nast

Worst job: Reality TV transcription

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY

Quarantine hobby: Puzzles! And also watching movies & reading

Book you'd take to a desert island: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons

…while cleaning: Jorge BenJor - A Tabua De Esmeralda or CAN - Ege Bamyasi

…while creating: One of my mixes on Spotify

What inspires you? Life and love

Creative crush: Nadine Ijewere 

Natalie Gialluca

Natalie Gialluca

Current job: Visuals Director and Producer, Freelance

Worst job: The Knot. 

Quarantine location: Mamaroneck, NY / Westchester, NY

Quarantine hobby: Home improvement tasks. Power washing, snaking bathroom drains, sanding wood, painting, even using a power drill, which was a housewarming gift 3 years ago and never took out of the box until quarantine!

Book you'd take to a desert island: Am I stranded indefinitely on the desert island or just there for a vacation? If I am stranded then I guess a dictionary. I can learn and pass the time by learning new words and it is big enough that it will take a long time to get through! If I am just vacationing, then the latest Jennifer Weiner book. 

Album you need to listen to while cooking: 1990s hip hop mix on Spotify 

…while cleaning: I prefer podcasts to music when cleaning. Some rotation of the Dateline, Armchair Expert and Forever35 podcasts.

…while creating: Adele, all of them

What inspires you? Long conversations with my art & design friends, flipping through old SPD and American Photography annuals

Creative crush: Photographer Ruven Afanador; his work is a piece of art, and collaborating with him is magical.

Raymond Ho

Raymond Ho

Current job: Creative Director at Women's Health

Worst job: Barista 

Quarantine location: NYC

Quarantine hobby: Watch car reviews on YouTube

Book you'd take to a desert island: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Album you need to listen to while cooking: I don't cook, so N/A. 

…while cleaning: Any "elevator music" playlist 

…while creating: I don't really have a set one. It's a mix of Canto-pop to what's popular on TikTok.

What inspires you? Being outside. Usually while walking around the city.

Creative crush: Jop van Bennekom