The Stone Cold Facts
With a background in graphic design, urban planning, and architecture, Candy likes to make cities more accessible and engaging through research, design, and the creative use of public space. She recently founded an organization called Civic Center that champions civic engagement through stories, services, products, and public installations.
She is a 2009 TED Global Fellow and has worked in Johannesburg, New Orleans, Vancouver, Nairobi, and New York City on collaborative projects with residents, community organizations, and local government. She was an art director at The New York Times, a fellow at the Spatial Information Design Lab, a researcher at the Infrastructure and Poverty Action Lab, and a project associate for Global Studio. Thanks to synthesizers and nerdy software she performed music in NYC, Detroit, and Grenoble and co-founded a design house/record label called Red Antenna. Her projects have been featured at the Center for Architecture, an airport in Russia, and several seedy basements.
After her parents immigrated from Taiwan, Candy was born in the steel city of Pittsburgh and lived in Lima, Exeter, Ann Arbor, and New York City. She currently lives in Helsinki where she’s been developing the future of Nokia Money through ethnography field research and design thinking. In the nocturnal hours she’s also working on a community installation in Turku, a neighbor resource-sharing tool for GOOD Magazine, a service for neighborhood business development, and a graphic novel about master planner Robert Moses and community leader Jane Jacobs. She likes synthesizers, dancing, and world’s fairs and takes around 1,000 photos every month. She’s Asian. It’s in her blood…
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EDUCATION
M.S. Urban Planning
Columbia University, 2007
B.F.A. Graphic Design
University of Michigan, 2001
B.S. Architecture
University of Michigan, 2001
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TROPHIES
2010
Suburban Artist-in-Residence, Turku, Finland
2009
TED Global Fellow
2008
Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship
2008
Sappi Ideas That Matter Grant
2008
Global Studio Johannesburg Fellowship
2007
Columbia University Urban Planning Award for Outstanding Contribution to Leadership in Planning Education
2007
Global Studio Johannesburg Fellowship
2007
Infrastructure and Poverty Action Lab Fellowship
2006
Spatial Information Design Lab New Orleans Fellowship
2006
Global Studio Vancouver Fellowship
2003
American Design Award
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EXHIBITS
Upcoming: National Design Triennial
Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. New York NY. May 2010
Featuring Guide to Street Vending in NYC
Poster4Tomorrow
Amsterdam, Ankara, Beirut, Belgrade, Brussels, Chungnam, Derry, Heidelberg, La Paz, Lima, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Milan, Montreal, Paris, Quito, Seville, Stockholm, Tbilisi, Vienna, December 2009
Featured Speak Out For Those Who Can’t
Global Polis
Center for Architecture. New York NY. May 2009
Featured Million Dollar Blocks and the Guide to Street Vending in NYC
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Sci-Arc . Los Angeles CA. February 2009
Featured Post-it Notes for Neighbors
Global Studio
Customs House . Sydney Australia . December 2008
Featured Global Studio
Figment
Governors Island NY . June 2008
Featured The Pedestrian Timeline
Windows Brooklyn
Brooklyn NY . June 2008
Featured I’ve Lived: Post-it Notes for Neighbors
Illuminators
Koltsovo International Airport, Yekaterinburg Russia . April-June 2008
Featured Hours Away: Maps for Airports
Conflux Festival
Brooklyn NY . September 2007
Featured Cripplebush Ghost Tour
American Planning Association National Conference
San Antonio TX . April 2006
Featured Brooklyn Bridge Wayfinding
Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance
OPENSOURCE . Champaign-Urbana IL . Apr–May 2005
Featured Freedom Butter and Project Moustache
Stick Up, New York!
New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo . Jan–Mar 2005
Featured Scenes from Grand City
Meanwhile
Tonic . New York NY . May 2003
Featured Alphagirls
Bloom: Flora and Electronics in Nine Parts
Taubman Gallery . Ann Arbor MI . May–Jun 2001
Featured video art installation
The Future and the City
5th International Festival for Architecture in Video . University of Florence . Florence Italy . Nov–Dec 2000
Featued video art installation created under Martha Skinner of fieldoffice
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TALKS
Upcoming: TYPO Berlin International Design Conference
Speaker . Berlin . May 2010
TED Global Conference
TED Fellows talk, Main stage talk . Oxford UK . July 2009
Aalto University School of Science and Technology
Guest lecturer, Sustainable Global Technologies . Helsinki . April 2009
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Global Studio, Lectures in Planning . NYC . February 2007
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PRESS
CLAM Magazine
Ailleurs
Issue 20 Spring 2010
WIRED UK
TED Fellows Special Profile: Local Hero
December 2009
BLDGBLOG
A User’s Guide to New York City pt. 2: Street Vendor Guide
A User’s Guide to New York City pt. 1: Tenants’ Right Flash Cards
December 2009
TYPO Magazine
Infographics—Myth and Meaning by Jan Middendorp
Issue 35 Spring 2009
Visual Communication Quarterly
Analog Interactivity issue
Spring 2009
The New York Times
Visual Aids for the Pushcart World by Saki Knafo
April 3, 2009
Communication Arts
July/August 2009
DailyCandy
Spray Paint the Town: A Year in Street Art from the Wooster Collective
December 31, 2008
Geez Magazine
Art Digest
Issue 9, Spring 2008
Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design
by Chen Design Associates
2006, Cincinnati: How Books
Featured Typography record packaging
The Question of New Orleans
by the Spatial Information Design Lab
2006, New York: Columbia University
Featured Million Dollar Blocks
Stickers!: From the First International Sticker Awards
2006, Berlin: Gestalten Verlag
Featured Project Moustache
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TEN MOVIES
The City of Lost Children
Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro
Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
Boogie Nights
Paul Thomas Anderson
Hudsucker Proxy
Joel Coen
The Prestige
Christopher Nolan
New York: A Documentary Film
Ric Burns
Singin’ in the Rain
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
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TEN BOOKS
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway
Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware
White Noise
Don DeLillo
The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist
Peter Hall, ed.
The Little Prince
Antoine Saint-Exupery
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TEN SONGS
The Chase
Giorgio Moroder
Space Oddity
David Bowie
Beat Street
Grandmaster Flash
These Days
Nico
Je t’aime… moi non plus
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin
Spacer Woman
Charlie
Tour de France
Kraftwerk
What’s Going On
Marvin Gaye
Time of the Season
The Zombies
Shook Ones Pt. II
Mobb Deep
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TEN PEOPLE
Charles and Ray Eames
Chris Ware
Edward Tufte
Josef Muller-Brockmann
Tibor Kalman
Claes Oldenburg
Alfred Hitchcock
Daniel Burnham
Buckminster Fuller

