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Laurel Schwulst

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Laurel Schwulst
Schwulst in 2019
Schwulst in 2019
Born1988
Normal, IL
OccupationDesigner, Artist, Educator
Website
laurelschwulst.com

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Laurel Schwulst (born 1988) is an American graphic designer, artist, writer, educator, and programmer based in New York.[1][2][3]

Early life & education

Born in 1988, Schwulst grew up in Normal, Illinois.[4] Schwulst graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2010.[5]

Creative practice

Schwulst is recognized for her websites, her interactive design work, her writing, her internet art, and her teaching methods.[6][7][8][9]

Design

Following school, Schwulst worked at the design studio Linked by Air in New York City.[10] In 2015, Schwulst collaborated with artist Sydney Shen on a perfume review website called Perfume Area.[11][12] Schwulst and Shen adapted the website into a book published by Ambient Works, New York.[13][11] In 2016, Schwulst was hired to be Creative Director of The Creative Independent, an arts publication run by Kickstarter.[14][15]

Schwulst released an app called Flight Simulator "Ode to Airplane Mode" in collaboration with Soft, on February 5, 2019.[16][17][18][19]

In 2021, Schwulst released How To Build a Kite, a craft tutorial that "doubles as a meditative experience" published on the New York Times website.[20]

Since 2022, Schwulst has served as director of the gift shop at the Social network and creative research platform, Are.na.[21]

Schwulst is an advocate for a PBS of the internet, a non-profit "public broadcasting system for the for the modern digital, networked age".[22][4][23]

Schwulst has designed fonts including the Times Dot font, a version of Times New Roman.[24]

Teaching

Schwulst has taught at multiple institutions including Yale School of Art and Princeton University.[25] In 2018, Schwulst was awarded an Inspiring Yale award for her work as a designer and teacher.[26]

Schwulsts inventive approach to pedagogy with her courses often credited as inspiration and exercises, like her coding from life workshop, frequently reproduced.[27][28][29][30]

Schwulst co-founded HTML Energy with artist Elliott Cost.[1] HTML Energy is a community that advocates for the Hypertext Markup Language through educational meet-up and other events.[1]

On February 26, 2024, Schwulst spoke as a guest lecturer in the Robert B Church III Memorial Lecture Series at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Architecture and Design.[31]

As of October 2025, Schwulst is the Louis D. Beaumont Artist-in-Residence at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at the Washington University in St. Louis.[32]

Exhibitions & events

Front and back cover of Perfume Area, a book of fragrance reviews by Sydney Shen and Laurel Schwulst, published in 2015 by Ambient Works.

Talks

Schwulst has given numerous talks at universities and institutions around the world. A selection of talks include:

  • Artist Talk as part of "Mobilizing Citizenship" visiting artist workshop at Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2018)[35]
  • Talking about the peer to peer web in the context of independent publishing at "Indiecon", Hamburg, Germany (2018)[36]
  • "Blogging in Motion" Lecture at Peer to Peer NYC at School for Poetic Computation, New York (2018)[37]
  • Easy Lessoning 8 with Michael Bell-Smith and Laurel Schwulst, Other Means, (2016)[38]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ng, Tiffany (Dec 21, 2023). "Recapturing early-internet whimsy with HTML". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  2. ↑ Chayka, Kyle (2016-08-03). "How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  3. ↑ Huff, Jason (2019-01-10). "How to make a website for your creative work". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Arbesman, Samuel (Aug 16, 2024). "The Orthogonal Bet: The Quest to Build the Fruitful Web - Lux Capital". www.luxcapital.com. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
  5. ↑ "Laurel Schwulst - Critic in Graphic Design". Yale School of Art. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  6. ↑ Gotthardt, Alexxa (2018-02-09). "Creatives Are Flocking to This Artist-Designed Social Network". Artsy. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  7. ↑ "Art Versus Silicon Valley: Are Artists Losing the Conceptual Advantage? | Frieze". Frieze. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  8. ↑ "Laurel Schwulst's Decade in Internet". Rhizome. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  9. ↑ "LAUREL SCHWULST". www.variationsonnoise.com. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
  10. ↑ "Scratching the Surface: Laurel Schwulst". LIBRARYSTACK∎. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Davis, Sam. "Perfume Area by Laurel Schwulst and Sydney Shen". C Magazine Issue 127 Page 65. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  12. ↑ McMahon, Katherine (2015-06-18). "HABITAT: Travess Smalley". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2025-02-25.
  13. ↑ "Ambient Works". ambientworks.info. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  14. ↑ Young, Edith (February 4, 2017). "The Creative Independent on the Art of the Interview". BLARB. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  15. ↑ "About". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  16. ↑ "left gallery". left gallery. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  17. ↑ "LAUREL SCHWULST". variationsonnoise.com. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  18. ↑ Halie, Nadia (2018). "On Becoming a Person | inform.design". Inform.Design. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  19. ↑ "Laurel Schwulst". Newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
  20. ↑ Schwulst, Laurel (19 May 2021). "how-to-build-a-bird-kite". The New York Times.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Activations: How to Build a Bird Kite | Calendar | Program | Dia". diaart.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  22. ↑ Sugarman, Mike (August 21, 2024). "How could a PBS of the Internet cultivate a more human web? Laurel Schwulst on a lighter weight Internet". ApplePodcasts. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  23. ↑ "107. How could a PBS of the Internet cultivate a more human web? Laurel Schwulst on a lighter weight Internet (Good Web)". Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst. 2024-08-21. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
  24. ↑ "SFPC Summer 2021 Cocoon". sfpc.io. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  25. ↑ "Graphic Design: Image". Lewis Center for the Arts. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  26. ↑ "Winners 2018". Inspiring Yale. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  27. ↑ "Introduction to Interactive Design: World Wide Web: Overview". summer2018-yale.matt-wolff.com. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  28. ↑ "Core Interaction". ci17.nikasimovich.com. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  29. ↑ "Handmade Web". handmade-web.net. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  30. ↑ "Design for the Net | Info". spring2017.designforthe.net. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  31. ↑ UT College of Architecture and Design (2024-02-29). Laurel Schwulst Lecture. Retrieved 2025-02-08 – via YouTube.
  32. ↑ "Laurel Schwulst: Beaumont Designer-in-Residence Lecture". Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 2025-10-09.
  33. ↑ "Laurel Schwulst — Ann Street Gallery". annstreetgallery.org. Retrieved 2024-10-16.
  34. ↑ "ALL I EAT IN A DAY - Announcements - e-flux". e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-10-15.
  35. ↑ Familiar Studio. "Artist talk with Laurel Schwulst". Kunsthall Stavanger. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  36. ↑ Brueder, Die. "Indiecon 2020". indiecon-festival.com. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  37. ↑ "Peer-to-Peer Web". peer-to-peer-web.com. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
  38. ↑ "2017: The Year According to Other Means". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2020-05-21.

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