David Navarro, Executive Creative Director of Ueno NYC, goes to Tokyo to talk about chaos and creativity.

Scott Keoni Shigeoka talks about his immersive theater production Second Chance, where participants looked back at their lives and faced their death.

Ueno’s “beloved” founder and CEO talks about what it means to create digital-first brands.

David Coulter has directed, recorded, produced, and played with artists such as The Pogues, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono and Gorillaz.

Melissa Myamoto-Mills talks about Cultivating Curiosity: How Collaboration and Curiosity Fuel Creativity

Matt McCue and Amanda Tuft publish “The Creative Factor,” an online publication exploring how people are redesigning experiences.

Brian Madden is an industrial designer and artist driven by a curiosity about cultural references, symbols, and stories.

What’s the deal with chewing gum? Icelandic product designer and chewing gum expert Íris Indriðadóttir tells you everything you always wanted to know.

Kwok Yin Mak and Marco Coppeto teach middle and high schoolers how to generate and develop ideas together as a team.

A special Chatty Hour with the teams from Ueno and Tjarnargatan who produced Tían, a suicide prevention project for young people in Iceland.

Jesse Dittmar is a photographer and author who takes portraits of people, both notable and regular, usually on his trusty Hasselblad.

Marco Coppeto, Design Lead at Ueno NYC, takes the stage at this visual design festival featuring the world’s most innovative creators.

Erin Pinkley is a designer and creative director in San Francisco. She paints shoes, makes award-winning pies, and runs the Brand Team at Zendesk.

Catalina Kulczar is a Hungarian photographer and director of photography, born and raised in Caracas but living in Brooklyn.

Alejandro Masferrer is the creator of Triggers, ideation cards for design, creativity, innovation and workshops.

Rachel is the Creative Director for the Material Design team at Google.

Do you want to start speaking at conferences? Join Women Talk Design’s workshop to help you get started, hosted at Ueno NY office.

Rik Lomas is the founder and CEO of SuperHi, a company that helps creative people all over the world learn the skills they want to learn.

Melissa Miyamoto-Mills, designer at Ueno SF, will talk about empathy in design as a responsibility to clients and consumers alike.

Stephen is the Chief Creative Officer at Y Media Labs, where he sets the YML vision and strategy for all things creative, design and product.

Our Creative Director Aaron Poe will join this one-day showcase of original presentations made to clients showing initial design explorations.

Simone is an illustrator & art director. Her work is often published in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, WIRED, Medium and Taste Magazine.

David joins Andre Ribeiro, Design Manager @ Squarespace, and Gabriel Gianordoli, Visual Editor @ The New York Times, on a panel about digital design.

Rán Flygenring is an award-winning illustrator. Her work is focused on conceptual illustration, visual explanations and graphic storytelling.

Our founder and CEO, Halli, will give a talk on “Creating a Brand” at this conference for designers, developers, and digital dreamers.

Uenoland! It’s the “conference” we always wanted to attend but never found. Until now.

Ueno’s founder and CEO Halli Thorleifsson will speak at the annual creativity festival.

Meg is a designer making experiences for happy companies and a speaker and educator creating fulfilling lives for humans of all kinds.

Tori is a graphic designer, writer, and sometimes photographer with a focus on people, equality, and feelings. She is the Creative Director at Figma.

Haik is an Armenian designer & artist who works on projects from 3D illustration, toys, sculptures, digital products, and everything in between.

We’re hosting an event to design and build a brand & website for a nonprofit all in 72 hours with our friends Good Measure. Join us!

Claudio is a Designer and Creative Director working on digital products based in San Francisco, California.

Felipe is a Brazilian designer and art director who has worked with Spotify, Snapchat, The New York Times Magazine, Pepsico, Unilever, and Benetton.

We’ll be chatting with Olafur Arnalds, Icelandic composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and all around nice guy. Note the special time: 1:00pm PT

Marta is a Barcelona-born graphic designer and art director. Her work spans from interactive, branding and editorial, video editing, to art direction.

Karli will discuss how to achieve your goals through a balance of presence and planning, and how we at Ueno make it happen!

Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer based in San Francisco. He is the lead designer for the InVision Studio Platform.

Victoria Joh is a Korean-American illustrator and designer interested in exploring human connections through storytelling and world-building.

Tandem NYC is the small-but-mighty design studio behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign brand and visual identity.

Ueno’s CEO Halli will speak at the full-day inspiration fest for designers.

Our Executive Creative Director David Navarro will share stories about Ueno at the Awwwards Digital Thinkers Conference in New York City.

The team at Kosmoss specialize in capturing deep-space objects and delivering them to living rooms via metal Chromaluxe prints.

Reina Takahashi creates art with hand-cut paper. Her work has appeared in magazines, on book covers, as window installations, and more.

Ueno’s Design Lead Marco Coppeto will speak about how designers can find their own voice, evolve, and lead the change we face every day.

Nicole Salmeri is a director, editor, and photographer who has worked with clients such as Mini Cooper, Instagram, & Amazon Games.

Björn Steinar is a product designer based in Reykjavík who strives to bring societal change through his design practice.

Jennifer is is the Experience Design Manager of Product Illustration at Airbnb, where she is redesigning their illustration system from the ground up.

Thierry is a co-founder of Grilli Type and the principal at Informal Inquiry, a New York-based branding and interaction design studio.

Roman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator living in San Francisco.

Ashley Christiano, Senior Marketing Manager and Barjinder Singh, Product Manager at Reuters will chat about the brand new Reuters News app.

Nicholas is Director of Development at The Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit organization working on the next 10,000 years.

Robert Surrency is a product designer, photographer and mental health advocate based in San Francisco.

Iheanyi is a product engineer at DigitalOcean. He builds products and co-hosts the Two Black Nerds podcast.

Get your pencils ready! Ueno NYC will host Draft & Draw at our Soho office from 7-10pm.

Our very own Aaron Poe will speak alongside Lance Cassidy, Founder & CEO OF DX Labs Design and Kristin Skinner, Head of Design Management at Chase.

Kelli is an artist/designer and tinkerer who is always experimenting with new means of making images and experiences.

Tina Roth Eisenberg (also known as swissmiss) is the founder of CreativeMornings and creator of other things like Tattly, TeuxDeux and FRIENDS.

We’re opening our doors for SF Design Week’s Studio Crawl from 6-9pm.

Jared Erondu is the Head of Design at Lattice, where he’s helping shape the next generation of employee-first HR software.

Robyn Kanner is co-creator of MyTransHealth, and has designed with companies like Etsy, Amazon, New Balance, and Staples.

Halli, founder and CEO of Ueno, shares “Six stories from my life” at the design conference.

Come hang out at Ueno! We’ll be chatting with Heather Phillips, a design manager at Designer Fund.

Jeremiah Shaw works at Google designing 3D games for kids - previously at Dropbox, Apple and Color Labs.

We’ll chat with Signe Birck, a food photographer for NYC’s top restaurants, and Danny Setiawan, a UX designer who also runs a body painting studio.

Loredana Crisan is the head of design for Messenger, an app used by over 1.3 billion people around the world.

Come hang out at Ueno! We’ll be chatting with Meg Robichaud, who leads the illustration team at Shopify.