Anisa Suthayalai

Anisa Suthayalai is a founding partner of Default, an interdisciplinary design practice and consultancy based in New York City and Bangkok. For over 5 years, Default has helped to create unified systems that address multiple channels of communication for art, design, architecture, fashion, media, cultural, and institutional clients worldwide. They build work from the ground up, getting their hands dirty with methodology that is both conceptual and pragmatic. They believe that concept is particular (to clients) but universal (to audiences), otherwise it's meaningless.

Prior to Default, Anisa had worked with many prestigious studios: Propaganda (Bangkok), Segura (Chicago), VSA Partners (Chicago), Design MW (New York), and 2x4 (New York), which resulted in the adding and expanding new dimensionality to her work. She was a lead designer on Prada New York Epicenter, Miu Miu, Vitra, Takashimaya, Saks Fifth Avenue, Frederick Fekkai, Malin+Goetz, Gmund Paper Company, Otis School of Art and Design, and Pentagon Memorial.

After years of keeping her head down, she was recognized as one of the New Visual Artists by Print magazine, earned numerous awards from AIGA New York, How Magazine, Print Magazine, Type Directors’ Club, and Art Directors’ Club, her work has been featured in various publications, such as Eye Magazine, IDEA Magazine, Plus 81 Magazine, CMYK Magazine. She occasionally judges in design competitions and guest lectures to various universities in the US and Thailand.