Mikki Janower is a freelance designer, art director, and generalist. Among other things, she's been a brand designer at Squarespace, an editorial designer at The New York Times, and a practicum researcher at the Guggenheim Museum. She co-operates Venn Diagramm Press. Read more

Awards

Gold Cube, Art Director's Club, 2023 Best In-house Agency: Squarespace, the One Club, 2023 & 2024 People's Voice, Webby Awards, 2023 Innovation by Design, Fast Company, 2023 TDK Award, The Design Kids, 2020 World's Best Designed Newspaper: The New York Times, Society for News Design, 2020

Exhibitions

Please Use Caution! Collaborative Ventures are Always Fraught with Problems!, Tate Britain, 2025 Between the Lines, St. Louis Artist's Guild, 2025

Speaking

Tools for Collaboration: Common Fields Convening, 2021 Web Design Trend Briefing, Circle Live, 2023

Writing

ACOMPI on the Power of Building Something with Friends, 2022 Partner & Partners on Building Tools for Better Worlds, 2021 A Community is a Garden, 2020

Education

MA in Visual Communications, Royal College of Art BFA in Communications Design, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Select Clients

The New York Times Björk The Guggenheim The Baffler Princeton University CUE Art Foundation Nike Kickstarter The Creative Independent ACOMPI

Select Skills

Art Direction Publication Design Typography Creative Coding Identity Design Web Design

Current Interests

Metal Fabrication CLI Programming Hand-lettering DaVinci Resolve

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fossora Squarespace x Björk

Identity Acuity Scheduling

Pirate Distro Royal College of Art

Design & Special Projects The Creative Independent

Tetragrammaton Squarespace x Rick Rubin

Display Systems Design and fabrication

Microsite Dylan Leggio

Tate Games 2 The Tate Britain Archive

Design and AD The New York Times

Publication Design Venn Diagramm

A Community is a Garden The Guggenheim

Sampler Display Typeface Design

Money Has No Smell CUE Art Foundation

Cover Illustration The Baffler Magazine

Lots more work where this came from, available upon request. Designed & coded by Mikki Janower. Last updated July 2025.