Talia Cotton is a designer and coder who specializes in the intersection of brand identities and technology.

Currently leading the design and development of data-driven and algorithmic brand identities at Pentagram and teaching Core Interaction at Parsons School of Design.

Experience

• Pentagram
• Math Practice
• Champions Design
• 2020
  Design Lead, Teams Bierut & Lupi, Pentagram


• 2019–2020
  Freelance Designer & Developer
  Studios include:
  Math Practice XXIX Channel Haha Area of Practice


• 2018–2019
  Lead Digital, Champions Design


• 2017
• Design Assistant, Lucille Tenazas
• Interactive Designer, The Inlay
• Designer, Pure+Applied
• Designer, designwajskol
• Research Assistant, Justin Bakse


• 2016
• Research Assistant, Brendan Griffiths

Recognition

• D&AD Awards
• Ladies, Wine & Design
• The Design Kids
• AIGA Command X
• Wood Pencil Winner, D&AD Awards
  Interview Feature, Ladies, Wine & Design
  Interview Feature, The Design Kids
  Work featured, TypeWolf [1 2 3]
  Work featured, SiteInspire
  Work featured, Minimal Gallery
  Work featured, CSS DSGN
  Work featured, The Branding Collective
  Finalist at Command X, AIGA Design Conference
  Intro Speaker, AIGA ModMag Conference
  Featured as one of GDUSA’s Students to Watch
  Work featured, Parsons Spotlight
  Work featured, Parsons Communication Design

Clients

• Google Fonts
• MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
• Getaway
• Google Fonts
• MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
• Getaway
• Memphis River Parks Partnership
• Rice Design Alliance
• Arena
• Cory Booker Campaign
• The New School

Teaching

• Core Interaction (Parsons)
• Intro to Coding for Designers
• Core Interaction
  Parsons School of Design
  Fall 2019, Spring 2020
  
  Intro to Coding for Designers
  Summer 2019
  
  Typography and Interaction Skills Intensive, TA
  Fall 2017
  Parsons MPS Program