Joe Marianek is a designer, educator, and founding partner at Small Stuff, a New York City-based design collective focused on projects of social and cultural impact.

Meredith Sutton is the Manager of Client & Associate Experience at Designtex in New York.

Before joining Designtex in 2012 Meredith Sutton worked for Maharam as a Manager for Sales Support, G3 Architecture as an Interior Designer and Gresham, Smith and Partners as an Interior Designer.

Designtex is the leading company in the design and manufacturing of applied materials for the built environment.

Justin Lowe is a Graphic Designer at PicSix Creative, a full-service creative agency based in Buffalo, N.Y. and a member of the Pegula Sports and Entertainment family.

Justin Lowe has been rolling up his sleeves and getting down to business in the creative industry for over a decade. After initially breaking out as a graphic designer, he has been evolving his career and tailoring his work towards environmental graphics, placemaking, wayfinding and signage. His work can be seen in hospitals, universities, stadiums and arenas. 

Nicole Yang is a Wayfinding Designer at Arup in the New York Studio.

Nicole Yang is a Wayfinding Designer in Arup’s New York office with over 6 years’ experience working on wayfinding system and signage design. Prior to joining Arup, Nicole Yang worked with Lebowitz Gould Design, Inc. on projects for diverse clients in education, hospitality, healthcare, and corporate sectors. Nicole focuses on wayfinding strategy, concept development as well as design execution. She has extensive experience in signage and wayfinding, ADA signage compliance, and donor recognition integration.

Audrey Strom is a Senior Asociate at Gensler in New York

Audrey Strom has been with Gensler since 1996.

For Gensler, design is the means. The starting points are goals, strategies and expectations, but design transcends them to create a new and better reality. Design is transformative.