As Co-President of Games for Change, Asi leads on the curation, development and execution of programs and services to raise the production, quality and influence of social impact games, and serves as a spokesperson for the organization....

Hailing from that elusive nation to the North, Kimiyo wandered into the wonderful world of design via Australia, the Yukon and Uruguay — a fabulously indirect path. Kimiyo has a Master’s in Design from the School of Visual Arts in New...

Dennis Cahlo is the brains behind the music of Empax. He is also the owner and founder of Aphelion Studios and lives in Brooklyn.

Nick Acemoglu is a graphic designer originally from Albany, NY. He obtained his MFA in Design from the School of Visual Arts in 2009. Over the past two years Nick has done work for a wide range of clients including Hunter College, Lou Reed and P...

Ruth recently got herself through high school in Brooklyn. Now that she can no longer kvetch aimlessly about homework assignments from teachers, she mills about her father’s office bothering his employees and actually doing some...

Irina is a graphic designer with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Maryland College Park and a Master’s degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts. As a designer, Irina believes in creating positive so...

Jessica Honikman was born in the UK and received a BA in History from the University of Manchester. A few years later she found herself cleaning up page layouts at an ad agency and so began her design career. She has since created printed mater...

Steven Smith hails from Texas. And he can see that look on your face so he’d like to point out that a) he was born and raised in San Antonio and b) he left almost as soon as he could. Once in New York, he told jokes at seedy open-mics in and arou...

Steve Haslip is originally from a quaint little village in the Southern countryside of England. Ambition seduced him into moving to the hustle and bustle of London where he studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins. After graduatin...

Caroline Zieth grew up in Green Lake, Wisconsin. She brings diversity to Empax in the form of Christmas and a career in which she has so far assisted in research at a top national stem cell laboratory, a national organization committed to the...

After losing his first design job to the fallout of the dot-com bust in San Franciso, Andy Outis started a design studio, Shift 7, to be able to practice design during a time when few design jobs were available. Shift 7 designed identities, pr...

Jennifer Daniel was raised in the red state of Kansas and at a young age she confused the locals by abstaining from driving a car or eating meat. After studying at the Maryland Institute College of Art she moved to New York and began drinking fo...

Clement Wu grew up in Boston and moved to New York after completing an economics degree at Harvard. He joined The New York Times as an aspiring journalist and left as a designer specializing in digital media. He has also held design positions...

Elana Dweck is a graphic designer with an MFA in Design from the School of the Visual Arts. Before attending SVA, she worked as a freelance designer and received her bachelor’s degree in communications and graphic design from NYU. Elana lov...

Amir gets offers everyday for his domain name fuckgoogle.com but still hasn’t received the right one to sell. He is the former art director of Israel’s most widely circulated weekend paper, Seven Days. He is married to Shira and splits his t...

Julie spent her earliest years in a small radius of Northern California. Later, she attended Stanford University where she picked up a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and a Master’s in Sociology. Upon graduating she dabbled in the no...

Raised in Berkeley, California, Lara McCormick has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from UCLA and a Masters of Fine Art in Design from the School of Visual Arts. She’s been working in the industry for over ten years, both as designer a...

Armed with a degree in Biology, Esther went to work in a lab in New York City doing contraception research. She did some web design on the side and took web classes at night. She took a course in Typography, not knowing exactly what that was. The...

Marc was born in Brooklyn (where he lived the first half of his life) and moved to Miami were he lived the second half of his life. He is currently enjoying the third half of his life in New York City. As a designer in Florida, he worked for studios...

Born and raised in northern California, Veronica headed east for college, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Photojournalism from Syracuse University, and subsequently has been asked, “Why did you ever leave the west coast for...