Laurel Schwulst (born 1988) is an American graphic designer, artist, writer, educator, and programmer based in New York.[1][2][3]

Early life & education

Born in 1988, Schwulst grew up in Normal, Illinois.[4]

Schwulst graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010.[5]

Creative practice

Schwulst is recognized for her websites, her interactive design work, her writing, her internet art, and her teaching methods.[6][7][8]

Design

Following school, Schwulst worked at the design studio Linked by Air in New York City.[9] In 2015, Schwulst collaborated with artist Sydney Shen on a perfume review website called Perfume Area.[10][11] Schwulst and Shen adapted the website into a book published by Ambient Works, New York.[12][10] In 2016, Schwulst was hired to be Creative Director of The Creative Independent, an arts publication run by Kickstarter.[13][14]

Schwulst released an app called Flight Simulator "Ode to Airplane Mode" in collaboration with Soft, on February 5, 2019.[15][16][17]

In 2021, Schwulst released How To Build a Kite, a craft tutorial that "doubles as a meditative experience" published on the New York Times website.[18]

Since 2022, Schwulst has served as director of the gift shop at the Social network and creative research platform, Are.na.[19]

Schwulst is an advocate for a PBS of the internet, a non-profit "public broadcasting system for the for the modern digital, networked age".[20][4]

Schwulst has designed fonts including the Times Dot font, a version of Times New Roman.[21]

Teaching

Schwulst has taught at multiple institutions including Yale School of Art and Princeton University.[22] In 2018, Schwulst was awarded an Inspiring Yale award for her work as a designer and teacher.[23]

Schwulsts inventive approach to pedagogy with her courses often credited as inspiration and exercises, like her coding from life workshop, frequently reproduced.[24][25][26][27]

Schwulst co-founded HTML Energy with artist Elliot Cost.[1] HTML Energy is a community that advocates for the Hypertext Markup Language through educational meet-up and other events.[1]

On February 26, 2024, Schwulst spoke as a guest lecturer in the Robert B Church III Memorial Lecture Series at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design.[28]

Exhibitions & events

Front and back cover of Perfume Area, a book of fragrance reviews by Sydney Shen and Laurel Schwulst, published in 2015 by Ambient Works.

Talks

Schwulst has given numerous talks at universities and institutions around the world. A selection of talks include:

  • Artist Talk as part of "Mobilizing Citizenship" visiting artist workshop at Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2018)[31]
  • Talking about the peer to peer web in the context of independent publishing at "Indiecon", Hamburg, Germany (2018)[32]
  • "Blogging in Motion" Lecture at Peer to Peer NYC at School for Poetic Computation, New York (2018)[33]
  • Easy Lessoning 8 with Michael Bell-Smith and Laurel Schwulst, Other Means, (2016)[34]

References

  1. ^ a b c Ng, Tiffany (Dec 21, 2023). "Recapturing early-internet whimsy with HTML". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  2. ^ Chayka, Kyle (2016-08-03). "How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  3. ^ Huff, Jason (2019-01-10). "How to make a website for your creative work". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  4. ^ a b Arbesman, Samuel (Aug 16, 2024). "The Orthogonal Bet: The Quest to Build the Fruitful Web - Lux Capital". www.luxcapital.com. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
  5. ^ "Laurel Schwulst - Critic in Graphic Design". Yale School of Art. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  6. ^ Gotthardt, Alexxa (2018-02-09). "Creatives Are Flocking to This Artist-Designed Social Network". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  7. ^ "Art Versus Silicon Valley: Are Artists Losing the Conceptual Advantage? | Frieze". Frieze. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  8. ^ "Laurel Schwulst's Decade in Internet". Rhizome. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  9. ^ "Scratching the Surface: Laurel Schwulst". LIBRARYSTACK∎. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  10. ^ a b Davis, Sam. "Perfume Area by Laurel Schwulst and Sydney Shen". C Magazine Issue 127 Page 65. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  11. ^ McMahon, Katherine (2015-06-18). "HABITAT: Travess Smalley". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
  12. ^ "Ambient Works". ambientworks.info. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  13. ^ Young, Edith (February 4, 2017). "The Creative Independent on the Art of the Interview". BLARB. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  14. ^ "About". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  15. ^ "left gallery". left gallery. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  16. ^ "LAUREL SCHWULST". variationsonnoise.com. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  17. ^ Halie, Nadia (2018). "On Becoming a Person | inform.design". Inform.Design. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  18. ^ "how-to-build-a-bird-kite".
  19. ^ a b "Activations: How to Build a Bird Kite | Calendar | Program | Dia". diaart.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  20. ^ Sugarman, Mike (August 21, 2024). "How could a PBS of the Internet cultivate a more human web? Laurel Schwulst on a lighter weight Internet". ApplePodcasts. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  21. ^ "SFPC Summer 2021 Cocoon". sfpc.io. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  22. ^ "Graphic Design: Image". Lewis Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  23. ^ "Winners 2018". Inspiring Yale. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  24. ^ "Introduction to Interactive Design: World Wide Web: Overview". summer2018-yale.matt-wolff.com. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  25. ^ "Core Interaction". ci17.nikasimovich.com. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  26. ^ "Handmade Web". handmade-web.net. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  27. ^ "Design for the Net | Info". spring2017.designforthe.net. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  28. ^ UT College of Architecture and Design (2024-02-29). Laurel Schwulst Lecture. Retrieved 2025-02-08 – via YouTube.
  29. ^ "Laurel Schwulst — Ann Street Gallery". annstreetgallery.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  30. ^ "ALL I EAT IN A DAY - Announcements - e-flux". e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  31. ^ Familiar Studio. "Artist talk with Laurel Schwulst". Kunsthall Stavanger. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  32. ^ Brueder, Die. "Indiecon 2020". indiecon-festival.com. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  33. ^ "Peer-to-Peer Web". peer-to-peer-web.com. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  34. ^ "2017: The Year According to Other Means". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.


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