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Scott Stowell is the proprietor of Open. Before starting Open, Scott was the art director of Benetton's Colors magazine in Rome and a senior designer at M&Co. New York. Before that, he received a BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. A former vice president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Scott also writes and lectures about design and teaches at Yale University and the School of Visual Arts. In 2008, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum named Scott the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.
Ryan Thacker grew up in a New Jersey town about halfway between Philadelphia and New York. After attending college (and numerous professional sporting events) in the former, he moved to the latter, where he now works at Open. Former employers include Allemann Almquist and Jones (where he designed things), Wal-Mart (where he sold shoes), and, actually, Open (where he was an intern and did a lot of the things he does now, but with a slightly more limited understanding).
Robert Di Ieso grew up in an average town in upstate New York. After learning all about "business" by selling used cars (while sporting the same cheap necktie every day), he graduated from Purchase College. After that he moved to Brooklyn and worked at a couple of design firms that specialize in environmental graphic design. Now at Open he is doing more environmental graphic design as well as broadcast, identity, and print design. Rob loves silkscreening, longs for the distant future, and hopes that one day scientific endeavor will gain mass appeal.
Serifcan Ozcan ate lunch half an hour before this was written. Before that he had coffee and a sesame bagel, before that he graduated from SVA MFA Design, before that he came to New York, and before that he had a vacation on the Aegean coast, which was after he left his job as an art director at an ad agency, which was after he worked at 20ml photography & design studio, which was after he graduated from Bilkent University in Ankara--and all of this of course happened after he was born in September 1982.
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