Talia Cotton

Specialist in branding & technology
Exploring and propelling new futures of design
through data and code

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Interviews & Features

TYPEONE Magazine Issue 07
Designer Feature & Interview
October 2023
Envato Meet the Experts
Meet the Experts: Pushing Design Possibilities Through Coding with Talia Cotton
June 2023
Page Magazine
Interview mit Talia Cotton: Code Can Solve the Problem of Design Bias"
May 2023
The One Club for Creativity
Morning Buzz with Adam Izen: Season 2 Episode 2
April 2023
TYPEONE Magazine Issue 06
Designer's List Feature
March 2023
The Brand Identity (November 2022)
Talia Cotton on working at Pentagram, inspiring students and creating meaningful design with code
November 2022
GDUSA
Responsible Designer to Watch
November 2022
The One Club
Young Guns 20: Talia Cotton Interview
November 2022
Ladies, Wine & Design
Talia Cotton, graphic designer and coder
November 2019
The Design Kids
Why designers are turned-off by coding, coding course, and the impact automation and algorithms could have on design
July 2019
GDUSA
Students to Watch Feature
February 2018
Parsons School of Design
Alumni Spotlight Feature
February 2018

Speaking

Nicer Tuesdays
TBA
TBA 2024
New York, NY
FITC Toronto 2024
TBA
April 2024
Toronto
OFFF Barcelona 2024
TBA
April 2024
Barcelona
D&AD APAC
On Making Meaning Through Code
January 2024
China (Virtual)
Wix Playground
Why I Code
January 2024
Tel Aviv (Virtual)
ACU Art & Design
Coding: A Design Philosophy
December 2023
Abilene, TX (Virtual)
Geneva University of Art and Design
Designing with Code in 20 Minutes
November 2023
Geneva (Virtual)
Type01 Launch at The One Club for Creativity
Overcoming
November 2023
New York, NY
Parsons MPS Communication Design
What Does It All Mean?
November 2023
New York, NY
MIT Media Lab
Future Sketches Lunch Lecture Series: “The role computation plays in my (various) online typography works, and my recent foundation of design agency Cotton”
September 2023
Cambridge, MA (Virtual)
Carnegie Mellon University Design Lecture Series
Brick Walls
March 2023
Pittsburgh, PA
UIC School of Art & Design
"Embrace the Impossible”, and Other Lessons in Coding
March 2023
Chicago, IL
Mason Gross School of Design (Rutgers University)
A Love Story
February 2023
New Brunswick, NJ
Lightricks
Digital Interface as Brand Expression
January 2023
Virtual
The New York Times
Talia Times Three (Start/End/In-between)
December 2022
New York, NY
Mother Design
Motherloving Code!
December 2022
New York, NY
University of Pennsylvania
Design Senior Seminar: Meet a Designer
December 2022
Virtual
UH Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
I Hate Technology: A Talk
November 2022
Houston, TX
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Talia Cotton and the Incessant Quest for Meaning in Technology
October 2022
Provdence, RI
InScript Experimental Type Festival (TDC)
Coding Typography: A Taxonomy
October 2022
Virtual
Brillo Festival (for illo.tv)
Dearest, Darlingest, Most Wonderful Technology: My Evolving Relationship
October 2022
Turin, Italy
Buzzfeed News
Why I Code
October 2022
New York, NY
OFFF Tel Aviv 2022
Designing With Code
September 2022
Tel Aviv, Israel
F+F School of Art and Design Zurich: Jan Steinbach’s ‘Design for Screens’ class
Why I Code (Abridged)
September 2022
Zurich, Switzerland (Virtual)
Wix Playground Academy (Tel Aviv Outpost)
What Coding Can Do/What Coding Can’t Do
July 2022
Tel Aviv, Israel (Virtual)
EditorX / Dribbble Webinar “Digital design in 2022: How to grow as a creator”
How I became a designer/coder & other common questions I wish I knew the answers to not so very long ago but instead had to figure them out myself because desiging with code literally wasn’t a thing: A Quick Talk
July 2022
Virtual
AIGA Porfolio Development Studio
My Portfolio, What I Do, How I Got Here
July 2022
Virtual
Future London Academy: Future of Branding Week
What Coding Can Do/What Coding Can’t Do
June 2022
London, UK
Wix Playground Academy (NYC Outpost)
What Code Can Do / What Code Can't Do
June 2022
New York, NY
Design Museum Week
The most important coding lesson I’ve ever learned (and the runners up)
April 2022
Virtual
Pentagram Off-Duty Talk Series
A talk on algorithmic music visualization
April 2022
New York, NY
Prophet Visiting Designer Talks
The 8 Methodologies of Algorithmic Design (Abridged)
April 2022
Virtual
Google Visual Design Summit (2021)
Why We Do What We Do
November 2021
Virtual
Parsons Communication Design Lecture Series
Why We Do What We Do
October 2021
Virtual
Verizon Adfellows Internal Introduction
Hello
June 2021
Virtual
AIGA ModMag Conference 2018
The Print/Digital Crossover
June 2018
New York, NY

Workshops

Typographics TypeLab
Creative Coding/Interactive Posters
Summer 2023
New York, NY
Wix Playground Academy Summer 2023 Bootcamp
Creative Coding/Interactive Posters
Summer 2023
New York, NY
UIC School of Art & Design
Interactive Posters
March 2023
Chicago, IL
Wix Playground Interactive Letterforms (Creative Coding Series)
Interactive Letterforms
February 2023
New York, NY
Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University)
Constructing an Interactive Valentine's Card
February 2022
New Brunswick, NJ
UH Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
Coding Typography/Interactive Letterforms
November 2022
Houston, TX
Buzzfeed News
Interactive Headlines
October 2022
New York, NY
Google Visual Design Summit
Making the Generative Form
November 2021
Virtual

Project Press

It’s Nice That
Talia Cotton departs Pentagram to launch Cotton, an agency specifically for coding and design
February 2023
Cotton
The New York Times
The Year in Illustration: The most memorable New York Times illustrations of 2022
December 2022
NYT Illustration
Fast Company
This unreal website embraces the most notorious UX design trend
October 2022
The Last Agency
The Brand Identity
The Edit: five projects including Talia Cotton’s generative identity for Guilty by Association
May 2022
Guilty By Association
Fonts In Use
Wyth (Feature)
May 2022
Wyth
Fast Company
This logo constantly redraws itself
April 2022
Guilty By Association
It's Nice That
Can design be unbiased? Possibly, with Talia Cotton’s infinite logo identity made using code
April 2022
Guilty By Association
GDUSA
Infinitely Generative ‘Unbiased’ Logo
April 2022
Guilty By Association
Logo Lounge
In Search of Non-Biased Design
April 2022
Guilty by Association
Creative Bloq
This awesome hand-drawn logo changes every time you see it
April 2022
Guilty By Association
CommArts
Pentagram updated this iconic New York cultural center with a new identity that eliminates confusion and opens possibilities.
June 2022
92NY
Grafik
An Interactive, Audio-Centric Website And Updated Brand For Vig Bar
September 2022
Vig Bar
Mindsparkle Mag
Vig Bar (Feature)
May 2022
Vig Bar
Admire The Web
Vig Bar (Feature)
May 2022
Vig Bar
Hover Stat.es
Although visually charming, this interactive project highlights the serious problem of airborne microplastics
December 2021
Plastic Air
Print Mag
‘Plastic Air’ is an Interactive Experience Showing Just How Prevalent Airborne Microplastics Are
April 2021
Plastic Air
Fast Company
Drink lattes? Order takeout? You're breathing in invisible toxins
April 2021
Plastic Air
It's Nice That
This website visualises the tiny, invisible bits of plastic floating in the air around us
April 2021
Plastic Air
What Design Can Do
New interactive website visualises the microplastics in the air we breathe
April 2021
Plastic Air
EditorX
2020 in review: A year in web design
December 2020
Dear New York
The New York Times
The T List: Five Things We Recommend This Week
July 2020
Dear New York
SiteInspire
Intro to Coding for Designers (Feature)
2020
Intro to Coding for Designers
The Next Web
10 web design trends that will dominate your screen in 2020
December 2019
Intro to Coding for Designers
Google Design
Google Design’s Best of 2019
December 2019
Recursive Minisite
TypeWolf
Site of the Day
2019
Portfolio Site 2019
TypeWolf
Top 40 Favorite Designer Portfolio Sites
2019
Portfolio Site 2019

Critic & Judging

University of Pennsylvania
Senior Thesis Visiting Critic
Spring 2023
Philadelphia, PA
Latin American Design Awards
Jury Member - Digital
March 2023
Virtual
Society for Publication Designers - SPD 58
Digital Jury
February 2023
Virtual
Wix Playground Academy (Tel Aviv Outpost)
Portfolio Review
Summer 2022
Virtual
Wix Playground Academy (New York Outpost)
Portfolio Review
Summer 2022
Virtual
Mason Gross School of the Arts (at Rutgers University)
Thesis Critic
May 2022
New Brunswick, NJ

Teaching

Years of Gratitude...

Students, Core Interaction

Portfolio Archive

Animated thumbnail for Marc Jacobs Fragrances Interactive Valentines by Talia Cotton
  • digital experience
  • generator tool

Marc Jacobs Fragrances Interactive Valentines

Cotton Team: Chris Kim

Animated thumbnail for Converse Global Creative by Talia Cotton
  • generator tool
  • interactive

Converse Global Creative

with WORKS

Animated thumbnail for Alma by Talia Cotton
  • website

Alma

with Whitney Badge

Animated thumbnail for Cotton Holiday Card 2024 by Talia Cotton
  • generative
  • print

Cotton Holiday Card 2024

Cotton Team: Noah Schwadron

Animated thumbnail for Can You Trust a Robot With Your Holiday Shopping? by Talia Cotton
  • interactive
  • illustration

Can You Trust a Robot With Your Holiday Shopping?

for The Wall Street Journal

Animated thumbnail for Our Keepers of 2023 by Talia Cotton
  • interactive

Our Keepers of 2023

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for Counterarchiving the Avant Garde by Talia Cotton
  • digital experience

Counterarchiving the Avant Garde

with artist Asha Tamirisa

Animated thumbnail for Yellow Technologies: Coming Soon by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

Yellow Technologies: Coming Soon

Cotton team: Chris Kim

Animated thumbnail for Moule & Polyzoides, Architects & Urbanists by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

Moule & Polyzoides, Architects & Urbanists

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for “A History of ‘Record’ in the Newspaper of Record” by Talia Cotton
  • illustration

“A History of ‘Record’ in the Newspaper of Record”

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for Elemental Interactive 2023 by Talia Cotton
  • event graphics
  • interactive

Elemental Interactive 2023

with Cotton

Animated thumbnail for “The 22 Debates That Made Us Rage, Roll Our Eyes, And Change Our Minds in 2022” by Talia Cotton
  • interactive

“The 22 Debates That Made Us Rage, Roll Our Eyes, And Change Our Minds in 2022”

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for Emerson Collective Demo Day 2022 Concept by Talia Cotton
  • event graphics

Emerson Collective Demo Day 2022 Concept

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for 2022 Disconnected by Talia Cotton
  • digital experience

2022 Disconnected

Animated thumbnail for The Last Agency by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

The Last Agency

Animated thumbnail for “Trump, The Black Hole, and Me” by Talia Cotton
  • interactive

“Trump, The Black Hole, and Me”

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for I Voted Sticker by Talia Cotton
  • campaign

I Voted Sticker

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Digital Architecture Lab by Talia Cotton
  • brand

Digital Architecture Lab

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Digital Architecture Lab Graphics Generator by Talia Cotton
  • generator tool

Digital Architecture Lab Graphics Generator

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for “App Rules are Twisted to Absurdity” by Talia Cotton
  • illustration

“App Rules are Twisted to Absurdity”

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for Core Interaction Website Fall 2022 by Talia Cotton
  • interactive

Core Interaction Website Fall 2022

Animated thumbnail for Guilty By Association by Talia Cotton
  • brand

Guilty By Association

Animated thumbnail for Guilty By Association Logo Generator by Talia Cotton
  • generator tool

Guilty By Association Logo Generator

Animated thumbnail for Vig Bar by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

Vig Bar

Animated thumbnail for “As Prices Skyrocket, Coupons Are Harder to Find Than Ever” by Talia Cotton
  • interactive
  • illustration

“As Prices Skyrocket, Coupons Are Harder to Find Than Ever”

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for The Huntington Sticker Generator by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • generator tool

The Huntington Sticker Generator

Animated thumbnail for “Our In-Person Shopping Hurts Big Tech” by Talia Cotton
  • interactive
  • illustration

“Our In-Person Shopping Hurts Big Tech”

for The New York Times

Animated thumbnail for Plastic Air by Talia Cotton
  • digital experience
  • data vis

Plastic Air

for Google Arts & Culture / with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Gates Foundation Equal is Greater Creative Platform by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • data vis

Gates Foundation Equal is Greater Creative Platform

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Swann Galleries Digital Catalogue by Talia Cotton
  • editorial design
  • data vis

Swann Galleries Digital Catalogue

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Flatiron District Annual Report (2021) by Talia Cotton
  • website
  • editorial

Flatiron District Annual Report (2021)

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for SVA Masters in Branding by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

SVA Masters in Branding

with JKR, John Provencher, Ian Glover

Animated thumbnail for SVA Poster Generator by Talia Cotton
  • generator

SVA Poster Generator

Animated thumbnail for Garrett Corcoran by Talia Cotton
  • website

Garrett Corcoran

Animated thumbnail for Flatiron District Annual Report (2020) by Talia Cotton
  • website
  • editorial

Flatiron District Annual Report (2020)

Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Wyth by Talia Cotton
  • brand

Wyth

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for 92NY by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • campaign

92NY

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma (Sundance) by Talia Cotton
  • website

Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma (Sundance)

with Tal Midyan

Animated thumbnail for Dear New York by Talia Cotton
  • digital experience

Dear New York

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Judlowe by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

Judlowe

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Intro to Coding for Designers by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website
  • campaign

Intro to Coding for Designers

Animated thumbnail for Central Park Typetester by Talia Cotton
  • generator

Central Park Typetester

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Happy Birthday Sachi Card by Talia Cotton
  • game

Happy Birthday Sachi Card

Animated thumbnail for Science Stack: Tools Within Reach by Talia Cotton
  • digital experience

Science Stack: Tools Within Reach

Animated thumbnail for Recursive Minisite by Talia Cotton
  • website

Recursive Minisite

for Google Fonts, with Math Practice, Arrow Type

Animated thumbnail for taliacotton.com (2020) by Talia Cotton
  • website

taliacotton.com (2020)

Animated thumbnail for Eldorado Architects by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

Eldorado Architects

with Pentagram

Animated thumbnail for Cory Booker 2020 by Talia Cotton
  • campaign
  • brand

Cory Booker 2020

with Champions Design

Animated thumbnail for No Bad Vibes by Talia Cotton
  • game
  • website

No Bad Vibes

Animated thumbnail for Supermajority by Talia Cotton
  • brand

Supermajority

with Champions Design

Animated thumbnail for Mohamed Elhawary, Designer by Talia Cotton
  • website

Mohamed Elhawary, Designer

Animated thumbnail for Reader by Talia Cotton
  • editorial

Reader

Animated thumbnail for Rice Design Alliance by Talia Cotton
  • brand

Rice Design Alliance

with Champions Design

Animated thumbnail for Rice Design Alliance Announcement Site by Talia Cotton
  • website

Rice Design Alliance Announcement Site

with Champions Design

Animated thumbnail for Give the Cat a Pizza (2016) by Talia Cotton
  • game

Give the Cat a Pizza (2016)

Animated thumbnail for Eric McNeal by Talia Cotton
  • website

Eric McNeal

with Tal Midyan

Animated thumbnail for Memphis River Parks Partnership by Talia Cotton
  • brand
  • website

Memphis River Parks Partnership

with Champions Design

Animated thumbnail for Parsons Electives by Talia Cotton
  • website
  • campaign

Parsons Electives

Animated thumbnail for “The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence” by Talia Cotton
  • editorial

“The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence”

for The New York Times