Candy is an artist, designer, and urban planner who likes to make cities more comfortable for people. With a background in architecture, graphic design, and urban planning, she combines these disciplines to make thoughtful public spaces and provide fun and practical solutions to everyday issues of city life.

She co-founded Civic Center, an organization that champions civic engagement through stories, services, products, and public installations. She’s a 2009 TED 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, and a project associate for Global Studio. For the past year and a half she has been a design specialist at Nokia where she researched mobile transactions around the world. Thanks to synthesizers and nerdy software she performed music in NYC, Detroit, and Grenoble and co-founded a design studio called Red Antenna. Her projects have been featured at the National Design Museum, an airport in Russia, and several seedy basements.

After her parents immigrated from Taiwan, Candy grew up in the cornfields of Ohio and has lived in New York City and Helsinki for the last ten years. She recently moved to New Orleans where she’s working on a public art installation and a graphic novel about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. She likes old machines, 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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SCHOOLING

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  Flux Aura Public Artist, Turku, Finland

2010  Artist as Neighbour Residency, 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: 2010 Poster Offensive, GALLEY, Minneapolis MN

2010  National Design Triennial, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York NY

2009  Poster4Tomorrow Amsterdam, Ankara, Beirut, Belgrade, Brussels, Chungnam, Derry, Heidelberg, La Paz, Lima, Lisbon, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Milan, Montreal, Paris, Quito, Seville, Stockholm, Tbilisi, Vienna

2009  Global Polis, Center for Architecture, New York NY

2009  @, Sci-Arc, Los Angeles CA

2008  Global Studio, Customs House, Sydney Australia

2008  Figment, Governors Island NY

2008  Windows Brooklyn, Brooklyn NY

2008  Illuminators, Koltsovo International Airport, Yekaterinburg Russia

2007  Conflux Festival, Brooklyn NY

2006  American Planning Association National Conference, San Antonio TX

2005  Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance, OPENSOURCE, Champaign-Urbana IL

2005  Stick Up, New York!, New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo

2003  Meanwhile, Tonic, New York NY

2001  Bloom: Flora and Electronics in Nine Parts, Taubman Gallery, Ann Arbor MI

2000  The Future and the City, 5th International Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence Italy

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TALKS

Upcoming: Oct 12-14 2010, Clarity 2010 International Conference, Lisbon Portugal

Upcoming: Oct 15 2010, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon Portugal

2010  TYPO Berlin International Design Conference, Berlin Germany

2009  TED Global Conference, Oxford UK

2009 Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Helsinki Finland

2007 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York NY

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MENTIONS

étapes
Candy Chang Designer Civique, Issue 183

Page Magazine
Wogende Emotionen (Surging Emotions), Aug 2010

Why Design Now?
by the National Design Triennial, 2010, New York: Smithsonian Institute

CLAM Magazine
Ailleurs, Issue 20 Spring 2010

WIRED UK
TED Fellows Special Profile: Local Hero, Dec 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, Dec 2009

Fast Company
Two Cool Tools for New York Renters by Alissa Walker, Nov 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, Apr 3, 2009

Communication Arts
Jul/Aug 2009

DailyCandy
Spray Paint the Town: A Year in Street Art from the Wooster Collective, Dec 31, 2008

Gothamist
Interactive Art with Post-it Notes and Rental Stats, Jul 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

The Question of New Orleans
by the Spatial Information Design Lab, 2006, New York: Columbia University

Stickers!: From the First International Sticker Awards
2006, Berlin: Gestalten Verlag

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TEN SONGS

The Chase
Giorgio Moroder

Space Oddity
David Bowie

Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time
The Delfonics

Secret Love
Ry Cooder Manuel Galban

These Days
Nico

Je t’aime… moi non plus
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin

Tour de France
Kraftwerk

Waiting for the Miracle
Leonard Cohen

Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Bob Dylan

Farewell/Goodbye
M83

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TEN BOOKS

The Little Prince
Antoine Saint-Exupery

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

City: Rediscovering the Center
William Whyte

Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro

Tibor Kalman, Perverse Optimist
Peter Hall, ed.

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TEN MOVIES

The City of Lost Children
Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro

Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock

Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson

Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus

Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese

Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard

Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino

Hudsucker Proxy
Joel Coen

New York: A Documentary Film
Ric Burns

Singin’ in the Rain
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly

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TEN PEOPLE

Charles and Ray Eames

William Whyte

Chris Ware

Edward Tufte

Jenny Holzer

Tibor Kalman

Claes Oldenburg

Alfred Hitchcock

Natalie Jeremijenko

Buckminster Fuller