NewsStaff Promotions at Two Twelve
Clockwise from top left: Sharmi Patel, Andy Ng, Jenny Uchida, Matthew Becker, Kevin Spencer, Jen Vitello, and Rachel Dixon; Photo by Lyndsay Carroll
Two Twelve celebrates the promotion of seven creative team members to new and exciting roles within our organization. As innovators in the field of experiential graphic design, our designers advance Two Twelve’s commitment to improving the user experience and expanding accessible environments. These promotions acknowledge the contributions, leadership, and unique strengths of the individuals who work together to form a dynamic and powerful whole. Read on to learn more about these exceptional team members.
Creative Director
Sharmi Patel
Sharmi has more than twenty years of experience in experiential graphic design - ten with Two Twelve - and her expert perspective enables her to effectively guide her design team to produce innovative results. With a talent for marrying form and function, Sharmi creates engaging and useful design solutions that enrich lives. Her creative problem solving skills make her a thoughtful leader and allow her to support her team of talented designers as they collaborate with clients on diverse projects to create wayfinding and signage solutions that positively shape the user experience.
Associate Creative Director
Andy Ng
In Andy’s thirteen years with Two Twelve, he has demonstrated an exceptional ability for creating wayfinding systems for complex large-scale projects. Clients benefit from his meticulous approach to the design process and ability to conceive and detail solutions that define a space and make it easy to navigate. His leadership and collaboration across client and user groups results in sustainable designs that positively impact all who encounter them.
Jenny Uchida
Jenny comes to her new role having proven herself as a creative mind, strategic thinker, and thoughtful leader since joining the firm in 2008. Her background spanning visual arts, architecture, and graphic design enables her to see both the broad picture and detailed inner workings of a place. This versatile perspective allows her to appropriately respond to the vision and needs of all project stakeholders and supports clear team communication.
Senior Designer
Matthew Becker
With nine years in the graphic design industry, Matthew has extensive experience working with clients to resolve communications problems and support user interactions. He has a unique ability to help users navigate complex data through innovative designs that result from thinking in terms of complete systems, rather than singular situations. This big picture approach contributes to Two Twelve’s mission to create designs that help people understand an increasingly complicated world.
Kevin Spencer
Since joining Two Twelve in 2015, Kevin has honed his skills in designing for modern-day built environments. Kevin’s thoughtful collaboration and attention to detail help him deliver engaging and intuitive wayfinding and signage systems for intricate project environments, particularly those in the healthcare industry and urban landscape. His ability to understand how a conceptual vision on screen translates into tangible objects within space helps us bring integrated and useful designs to life.
Jen Vitello
Jen’s international background in experiential graphic design has informed her work over the past six years with Two Twelve, inspiring designs that respond to the needs of high profile projects with diverse users. Her focus on the end user results in thoughtful human-centered designs that create cohesive environments. She understands what a humbling experience it can be to get lost, and she brings to her team a passion for design that helps others explore and find their way.
Designer
Rachel Dixon
In her four years with Two Twelve, Rachel has contributed to the mission of delivering accessible and inclusive public information designs by investing in wayfinding solutions that build social equity. She is adept at engaging stakeholders and communities throughout the course of a project in order to build consensus, and her passion for combining design with social justice makes her an incredible asset to Two Twelve’s team.
