is an anthropologist turned creative director living in New York City
Lana currently works at Foursquare leading location-driven creative partnerships and innovation as the company’s first creative director.
Until November 2017, Lana worked in commercial creative development at VICE Media, collaborating with brands to produce content for Broadly, Tonic, Motherboard, and VICE Impact. During that time, she created more than 50 videos ︎, launched three digital channels ︎, meditated with two Shugendo monks ︎, and was responsible for one trademark.™
Lana completed her master’s degree in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in 2014 and received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She is an alum of IDEO (2013) and RadicalMedia (2010-2012), where she worked on the Ocean Health Index, Gagosian App, Sting 25, and NASA Mission Juno.
Some of her early graphics projects include Simplifood and The Wedding Grid. She wrote her undergraduate thesis, Strolling and Scrolling: Navigating the Local through the New York Times Brooklyn “Local” Blog, on the interplay between digital and physical space, and her master’s thesis, Remembering the Future: The Designer as Ethnographer of Imagination, on the relationship between memory and imagination.
Until November 2017, Lana worked in commercial creative development at VICE Media, collaborating with brands to produce content for Broadly, Tonic, Motherboard, and VICE Impact. During that time, she created more than 50 videos ︎, launched three digital channels ︎, meditated with two Shugendo monks ︎, and was responsible for one trademark.™
Lana completed her master’s degree in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in 2014 and received a BA in Cultural Anthropology from University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She is an alum of IDEO (2013) and RadicalMedia (2010-2012), where she worked on the Ocean Health Index, Gagosian App, Sting 25, and NASA Mission Juno.
Some of her early graphics projects include Simplifood and The Wedding Grid. She wrote her undergraduate thesis, Strolling and Scrolling: Navigating the Local through the New York Times Brooklyn “Local” Blog, on the interplay between digital and physical space, and her master’s thesis, Remembering the Future: The Designer as Ethnographer of Imagination, on the relationship between memory and imagination.
News
2018
Exhibited Night Botany, a poster show and fundraiser, at the SOMMWHERE gallery in NYC
2018
Featured in Communication Arts
2016
Featured in the “New Voices in Design” series of Debbie Millman’s Design Matters podcast
2016
Co-led “Elastic Narratives” workshop as part of Parsons’ VergeNYC conferencce
2015
Presented “Data as Artifacts in Design Interventions” at the Design Anthropological Futures Conference in Copenhagen
2015
Visiting critic in speculative design for SVA's Products of Design MA
2015
Designer-in-residence at Laboratorio para la Ciudad in Mexico City