Faculty Profiles
Rachel Abrams : Creative Director of Turnstone Consulting
Rachel Abrams is Creative Director of Turnstone Consulting, New York, a collaborative design practice, where she designs people-friendly, technology-mediated experiences for commercial spaces and public places.
Recently, she co-edited Taxi07: Roads Forward, The Design Trust for Public Space‚ a forthcoming report for New York City about the future of yellow cabs. She is now working with Turnstone’s design partners, as Constellation, on environmental graphic design for the upcoming renovation of The Queens Museum of Art. Rachel’s design writing has featured on Adobe.com, in The Economist, Design Council, Eye, Frieze, Good and Graphics International magazines and elsewhere. Her previous projects include interactive media for ibm.com and for the Samsung Experience, New York, winning awards for Imagination Inc. She is currently teaching in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU.
Clients Include: AIGA, American Express; The New York Times; The Economist; Queens Museum; Taxi07; Wert & Co.
Awards Include: Design Trust for Public Space Fellowship; Grand Prix and Prize for Innovation, British Interactive Media Association
- Education
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MA, Royal College of Art
- Professional Experience
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Senior content strategist, Imagination (USA) Inc; information architect, User Experience Site Strategy and Standards, ibm.com, IBM
- Publications
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Design Council, Frieze, Adobe ThinkTank, GOOD Magazine, Graphics International, Intelligent Life, Eye
- On the Web
