Linked by Air is an internationally renowned graphic design studio specializing in the creation of design systems and technological platforms that grow with institutions. The studio works with major cultural and educational organizations, charities, artists, architects and corporations. It frequently stewards its clients’ flagship websites and apps, and leads the development of organization-wide digital strategies. The studio sometimes describes its expertise as the “production of public space,” whether in the world or online. Its interest is in creating systems that work for all their constituents, and that show their health by evolving successfully over time.
Linked by Air
Dan Michaelson, Tamara Maletic, Dylan Fisher, Christopher Roeleveld, Eric Nylund, Aarati Akkapeddi, Kieran Gillen, Rosa McElheny
Past staff and collaborators
Lauren Adolfsen, Lukas Eigler-Harding, Bojan Filipovic, John Friel, Brendan Griffiths, Jack Jennings, May Kim, Andrea Lausevic, 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
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
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
