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We have an expert handle on coding as a design medium and as a method for communication.
Ask Us HowFounded in 2023, Cotton has quickly gained notoriety for its innovative approach to design.
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Noah Schwadron will be repping Cotton the AIGA Design Portfolio Reviews 2025—an opportunity for young designers to showcase their work, receive constructive feedback, and network with industry professionals.
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Trends to Die in 2025: Talia Cotton challenges the "AI Aesthetic" in Fast Company’s look-back on 2024 trends.
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"This brilliant font is made entirely out of backslashes A new branding system by Cotton Design for Cornell Tech’s art organization uses a single shape."
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In Creative Review's latest Creative Leadership Spotlight, Aimee Mclaughlin chats with Talia Cotton about innovation, female role models, and empowering the next generation of creatives.
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"This is a fun break from SaaS conventions and clichés that pushes the boundaries visually, which, in turn, would give an indication of how the company does the same when it comes to translating data insight." Brand New reviews Cotton's identity for Backslash.
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Talia Cotton, Yehwan Song, Chelsi Alise Cocking, and others featured in TYPEONE’s Issue #01: The Creative Code Issue (Now Sold Out)
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The Young Ones competition identifies emerging creative talent across diverse disciplines. Talia Cotton joins a jury of esteemed judges for the 2025 edition.
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Creative Review ranks 2024's best magazine covers, and Cotton's New York Times Sunday Opinion cover gets noticed for its stress-inducing (by design) generative illustration that uses code to spawn exponentially.
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"Overall, this is most definitely unconventional and possibly infuriating to some but as far as honoring the organization’s MO — which is celebrating and supporting art that is “nonlinear, unconventional, unexpected, adventurous, intense, surprising, questionable” — this is unequivocally successful." Brand New reviews Cotton's identity for Backslash.
Spotlight

Women at Work Podcast goes deep with Talia Cotton to discuss her path of resilience to building a creative agency from scratch
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In Lima, Peru, Talia Cotton talks about Designing What Doesn't Exist yet at the Latin American Design Festival: Latin America's largest design fest.
Insight

In the wake of recent layoffs, Fast Company asked Talia Cotton to offer advice to other designers who are now going freelance.
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"Pushing Design Possibilities Through Coding": Talia Cotton Talks Code and Creativity with Envato
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“Very simple, very good. Very legible, very memorable.” Brand New audiences weigh in on the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance brand identity.
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Talia Cotton invited to celebrate the Pantone Color of the Year unveiling at Wix Studio's VIP Brunch at Manhatta in New York
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Talia Cotton will be sitting down with Elizabeth Goodspeed for a live Q&A that will touch on tech, leaving Pentagram, and taking the leap to start her own venture at November's Nicer Tuesdays in New York.
Talks

"We don't have the luxury of mistakes." At Collins' exclusive BTS night, Talia Cotton presents her behind-the-scenes formula for running an operation with no room for errors.
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Wix Playground’s quarterly series dives into the ever-expanding world of web design. Speakers Talia Cotton, Rich Tu and Hezi Jacob unpack their creative process and the challenges of taking beautiful designs to digital experiences.
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At Canva Create: Work Redesigned, Talia Cotton discusses Rebranding at Scale with JKR's Lee Rolston and Accept and Proceed's Jo Roca, hosted by Mark Wilson
Insight

Inspiration report: Wix Studio spotlights Talia Cotton’s keynote at OFFF Festival as a standout on pushing the boundaries of playful and interactive design.
Team

Cotton welcomes summer intern Chris Kim. Chris is an overwhelming talent in motion design and coding, and a recent grad from Parsons School of Design.

Talia Cotton to teach Harvard GSD course on generative AI and design fiction alongside Sankalp Bhatnagar
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Talia Cotton to speak at Toronto's Meridien Hall for RGD Canada's DesignThinkers event—Canada’s largest graphic design conference.
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Talia Cotton to judge the ADCC 75th Annual design awards, Canada's oldest design organization, alongside Kemp Attwood, Chris Cyran, Max Ottignon, and jury president Astrid Stavro.
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Talia speaks about design and code at Bump Festival, a one-day creative conference in Kortrijk, Belgium, alongside fellow speakers Gavin Strange, Ksawery Komputery, and others.
Awards

Cotton's very own Noah Schwadron wins the coveted Young Ones awards for his data-driven generative wine packaging project, 'Kajab'.
Spotlight

Tim Rodenbröker chats with Talia Cotton about creative freedom, agency life, and bridging design with technology.
Insight

Fast Company taps Talia Cotton among other industry leaders to forecast their predictions on design trends in 2025
Talks

Talia Cotton announced as speaker in the inaugural Paradiso festival in Yucatan, Mexico with 50+ of the industry's most esteemed creatives, including Paula Scher and Stefan Sagmeister
Press

Defying norms at -21°: how Cotton Design weaved technology and art into Backslash’s visual language
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Future London Academy's Ekaterina Solomeina talks with Talia Cotton about starting an agency after leaving Pentagram for their Design Leadership series.
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