is an anthropologist turned creative director living in New York City
Lana has spent a decade in the creative services industry making big ideas more human for companies like Radical Media, IDEO and VICE Media.
At VICE, she led commercial creative development for the “Knowledge” category of digital channels, including Motherboard, VICE Impact, and Tonic.
Most recently, Lana spent a year at Foursquare overseeing creative partnerships, innovation, and data-driven storytelling as the company’s first creative director.
Her personal fascination, and the subject of her master’s thesis, is the relationship between memory and imagination. Her early work can be found here.
At VICE, she led commercial creative development for the “Knowledge” category of digital channels, including Motherboard, VICE Impact, and Tonic.
︎ Concepted and created more than 50 videos
︎ Launched three digital channels
︎ Meditated with two Shugendo monks
Most recently, Lana spent a year at Foursquare overseeing creative partnerships, innovation, and data-driven storytelling as the company’s first creative director.
︎ Built an in-house creative studio called Sixteen
︎ Trolled IHOPLana graduated summa cum laude from University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Cultural Anthropology and minors in Science, Technology and Society and Theater Arts. She holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London.
︎ Created new location-aware ad formats
Her personal fascination, and the subject of her master’s thesis, is the relationship between memory and imagination. Her early work can be found here.
News
2019
Launched Women Who Changed Science, an AI-assisted web experience for Microsoft and Nobel Media
2018
Influenced the senate vote to restore net neutrality with dynamic, location-based media that allowed people to call or text their senators directly from the ads
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