Chelsey Lamwatt

Chelsey Lamwatt

Current job: Communications Director, SPD

What’s your superpower? I have a good memory for people.

3 things you can’t live without: Family, my phone, and a good book.

Name an inspiring Instagram feed: Collage artist Sharlene Kayne - @skaynedesigns and Punk History - @punk_history

What’s on your bucket list for 2022? Fingers crossed I'll be able to travel out of the country in 2022 🤞🏼

A mistake you made early in your career: Not being confident enough in my skills and what I bring to the table.

Favorite streaming TV show: Criminal Minds

What's your advice for young creatives? The importance of networking: talk to people and continue to stay in touch with colleagues throughout your career.

What (or who) inspires you? My friends who are fearless in chasing after their dreams; they inspire me to do the same.

Meet The Board: 2020 - 2021

Each year, the members of the Society vote on the officers and directors of the SPD Board. We’re excited to welcome six new board members this year (Corliss Elizabeth, Ed, Emem, Katie, Lauren, and Natalie) and congratulate our new officers (Mike, Agnethe, Trevett, Lan Yin, and Jeff). Get to know the 2020-2021 Board of Directors by clicking on each photo below!

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Mike Schnaidt
PRESIDENT
Creative Director
Fast Company

Creative crush Badass women of design: Rosmarie Tissi, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Jacqueline Casey

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Lan Yin Bachelis
SECRETARY
Creative Director, Consultant


Quarantine hobby: What hobby? Been working around the clock.

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Corliss Elizabeth Williams
Creative Director + Proprietor
The Lowry Estate

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

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Emem Offong
VP, User Experience Design Lead
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Album you need to listen to while cleaning: Podcasts count right? Pop Culture Happy Hour, Death, Sex & Money, Robinhood Snacks, and Back Issue.

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Lauren Brown
Senior Visual Editor
Glamour and Allure

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

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Agnethe Glatved
VICE PRESIDENT
Executive Creative Director
Parents and Parents Latina

Worst job? Doing a lifestyle photoshoot in the Wyoming wilderness—having our campsite surrounded by bears!

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Jeff Glendenning
TREASURER
Creative Director, Brand Identity
The New York Times

Quarantine location: Upstate / Manhattan / Denver

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David Matt
VP Creative, Content & Strategy
Foundry 360, Meredith Corp's Content Agency

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

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Jamie Prokell
Creative Director
Men's Health

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

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Natalie Gialluca
Visuals Director + Producer

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!

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Trevett McCandliss
VICE PRESIDENT
Creative Director
Earnshaw's, Footwear Plus, and MR Magazine

What inspires you? Shadows on the wall

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Ben Grandgenett
Art Director
The New York Times Magazine

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

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Ed Levine
Creative Director
Psychology Today

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

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Katie Belloff
Art Director
Popular Science

Album you need to listen to while creating: Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

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Raymond Ho
Creative Director
Women’s Health

Album you need to listen to while cleaning: Any "elevator music" playlist 

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Mike Schnaidt

Mike Schnaidt

PRESIDENT

Current job: Creative Director, Fast Company

Worst job: Pet store poop scooper

Quarantine location: Jersey City represent

Quarantine hobby: Yoga

Book you'd take to a desert island: Two-Dimensional Man by Paul Sahre

Album you need to listen to while cooking: The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps

…while cleaning: Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power

…while creating: Hum - Inlet

What inspires you? Running. It turns my brain off. I solve design problems better when I don't think too hard about them.

Creative crush: Badass women of design: Rosmarie Tissi, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Jacqueline Casey

Agnethe Glatved

Agnethe Glatved

VICE PRESIDENT

Current job: Executive Creative Director, Parents & Parents Latina

Worst job: Doing a lifestyle photoshoot in the Wyoming wilderness—having our campsite surrounded by bears!

Quarantine location: Brooklyn

Quarantine hobby: Drinking wine

Book you'd take to a desert island: A book on Scandinavian architecture and design

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Mix of African music

…while cleaning: My daughter’s Spotify playlist with The Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin and Nico.

…while creating: Anything Philip Glass

What inspires you? Gen Z

Creative crush: Creative freedom of Gen Z

Trevett McCandliss

Trevett McCandliss

VICE PRESIDENT

Current job: Creative Director of Earnshaw's, Footwear Plus and MR magazines

Worst job: Telemarketer

Quarantine location: Brightwaters, LI

Quarantine hobby: Playing guitar

Book you'd take to a desert island: Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch

Album you need to listen to while cooking: American Beauty by the Grateful Dead

…while cleaning: You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr

…while creating: Atlas by Real Estate

What inspires you? Shadows on the wall

Creative crush: Bradbury Thompson

Lan Yin Bachelis

Lan Yin Bachelis

SECRETARY

Current job: Creative Director, Consultant

Worst job: May share when I've had a few too many

Quarantine location: Manhattan

Quarantine hobby: What hobby? Been working around the clock.

Book you'd take to a desert island: Can read this again: Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown by Gerri Hirshey

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Billie Eilish

…while cleaning: CNN or MSNBC

…while creating: Anything on my Spotify playlist

What inspires you? SPD books, shopping, walking around the city and other creatives

Creative crush: None at the moment

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