Katie Belloff

Katie Belloff

Current job: Art Director at Popular Science 

Worst job: Counter person for a pie shop. Almost all of my paychecks bounced and on some Saturdays I had to wear a "pie guy" mascot suit and wave to people on a busy street. 

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY

Quarantine hobby: Perfecting my banana bread

Book you'd take to a desert island: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Historian by Lucy Dacus

…while cleaning: Glass Houses by Billy Joel

…while creating: Welcome to The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

What inspires you? So much! A big one is listening to other creatives speak about their work. Also including, but not limited to: 70's psychedelic type, band posters, letterpress & risograph prints, Sylvia Plath's poetry, and retro color palettes.

Creative crush: Kristin Eddington. She absolutely killed it when she worked at Bon App, and I still have a ton of screenshots of her work that I pull for inspiration.

Lauren Brown

Lauren Brown

Current job: Senior Visuals Editor at Glamour and Allure/Condé Nast

Worst job: Reality TV transcription

Quarantine location: Brooklyn, NY

Quarantine hobby: Puzzles! And also watching movies & reading

Book you'd take to a desert island: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 

Album you need to listen to while cooking: Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons

…while cleaning: Jorge BenJor - A Tabua De Esmeralda or CAN - Ege Bamyasi

…while creating: One of my mixes on Spotify

What inspires you? Life and love

Creative crush: Nadine Ijewere 

Natalie Gialluca

Natalie Gialluca

Current job: Visuals Director and Producer, Freelance

Worst job: The Knot. 

Quarantine location: Mamaroneck, NY / Westchester, NY

Quarantine hobby: Home improvement tasks. Power washing, snaking bathroom drains, sanding wood, painting, even using a power drill, which was a housewarming gift 3 years ago and never took out of the box until quarantine!

Book you'd take to a desert island: Am I stranded indefinitely on the desert island or just there for a vacation? If I am stranded then I guess a dictionary. I can learn and pass the time by learning new words and it is big enough that it will take a long time to get through! If I am just vacationing, then the latest Jennifer Weiner book. 

Album you need to listen to while cooking: 1990s hip hop mix on Spotify 

…while cleaning: I prefer podcasts to music when cleaning. Some rotation of the Dateline, Armchair Expert and Forever35 podcasts.

…while creating: Adele, all of them

What inspires you? Long conversations with my art & design friends, flipping through old SPD and American Photography annuals

Creative crush: Photographer Ruven Afanador; his work is a piece of art, and collaborating with him is magical.

Raymond Ho

Raymond Ho

Current job: Creative Director at Women's Health

Worst job: Barista 

Quarantine location: NYC

Quarantine hobby: Watch car reviews on YouTube

Book you'd take to a desert island: The Talented Mr. Ripley

Album you need to listen to while cooking: I don't cook, so N/A. 

…while cleaning: Any "elevator music" playlist 

…while creating: I don't really have a set one. It's a mix of Canto-pop to what's popular on TikTok.

What inspires you? Being outside. Usually while walking around the city.

Creative crush: Jop van Bennekom