Linked by Air is a design firm invested in the production of public space. We begin with digital. Our generative passion for the arts, education, and design is reflected in our clients. Unique among firms our size, we combine leading-edge visual design with the capability to undertake complicated projects – and transform institutions. Our designers and developers work tightly together and are inspired by one another.
Our approach to authorship, context, and creativity embraces open-ended structures, uncertainty, and evolution. This is both a design value and a strategic value.
We help institutions remain true to their own values and mission. Our clients achieve a high level of engagement with both end users and content authors, as they steward websites that are nimble, durable, and reactive to current needs and opportunities.
Past staff and collaborators
Lauren Adolfsen, Aarati Akkapeddi, Lukas Eigler-Harding, Bojan Filipovic, Dylan Fisher, John Friel, Brendan Griffiths, Hilla Katki, Jack Jennings, May Kim, Andrea Lausevic, Rosa McElheny, Nina Muccia, Julia Novitch, James Oates, Sasha Portis, Libby Safford, Laurel Schwulst, Jeffrey Scudder, Nika Simovich, Maurann Stein, Branimir Vasilic, Valerie van Zuijlen, Mary Voorhees Meehan, Brian Watterson, Alexander Wolfe, Jonathan Zong
Website photography: Mary Voorhees Meehan and Patrick Dyar
Some of our clients
- 2x4
- Architectural League of New York
- ArtAsiaPacific
- Bard Center for Curatorial Studies
- Bard Graduate Center
- Canadian Center for Architecture
- Center for Urban Pedagogy
- City College of New York
- Columbia University
- Do Ho Suh
- Good Shepherd Services
- Greengrassi
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Julia Kim Smith
- ManyLabs
- Menil Collection
- MOS Architects
- New Art Dealers Alliance
- New Museum
- Parallelograms
- Pick Up Performance Co(s)
- Printed Matter
- Public Art Fund
- Reto Geiser, Rice University
- Roosevelt Island Explorers
- Salmagundi
- Samosapedia
- Tang Museum
- WAX Magazine
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Williams College Museum of Art
- Yale University
- YAMP
- Zagrebacki Plesni Centar
- Zone Books
We’re occasionally included in publications or exhibitions.
- Eleanor Lambert, Snap Back to Reality, The Creators Project, November 4, 2016
- Dan Michaelson, Ultralight, 27th Brno Biennial Catalog, The Moravian Gallery in Brno, 2016
- Jake Solyst, Why We Play It Safe, August 29, 2016
- Tamara Maletic, Lights On, Grafik #188, London, 2014
- Liz Robbins, One Long Night in Puzzle City, The New York Times, October 11, 2013
- Dan Michaelson and Tamara Maletic, Two Translations in Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers, Michael Rock ed., Rizzoli, 2013
- Jack Balkin and Dan Michaelson, Governance Structures in Graphic Design, Decorative Form in Law, and Schools in the Public Sphere, Graphic Magazine #22, Seoul, 2012
- “Only”, Brno Graphic Design Biennial, Czech Republic, 2012
- Helen Armstrong and Zvezdana Stojmirovic, “Linked by Air”, in Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011
- Angharad Lewis, Linked by Air’s progressive web design, Grafik #188, London, 2011
- Dina Helal, Brad Henslee, and Dan Michaelson, Barn-raising: Building a Museum Website Using Custom Wiki Tools, Museums and the Web, Denver, 2010
- “Identity for Zagreb Dance Center”, with Lana Cavar, Graphic Magazine #13 (Visual Identity Issue), Seoul, 2010
- X Exhibition, 07 Graphic Design in China, The International Judges Nomination Exhibition, Shenzhen, 2008
- Dan Michaelson, Street View, Modern Painters, September 2007
Some places we have taught, lectured, or given workshops
- AIGA/NY
- Bard Graduate Center, New York
- Chicago Architecture Biennial
- ECAL, Lausanne
- Google, New York
- IDEO, New York
- International Biennial of Graphic Design, Brno
- Maine College of Art, Portland
- Naver/NHN, Seoul
- NYU Visual Arts Administration MA program
- NYU ITP
- Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
- Parsons/The New School for Design, New York
- Princeton University
- Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
- Stroom Gallery, The Hague
- SUNY Purchase
- University of Seoul
- Yale University School of Art, New Haven
