Kathryn Bethard
Web Designer & Illustrator
Kathryn co-conceptualized the Nature Knows Best initiative as part of our Illuminations series.
Nature Knows Best focuses on the ways that bio-inspired design is being leveraged to create strategies and solutions in the sustainability sector. She produced a series of six illustrations, each highlighting a different lesson learned from nature about how to undo the damages that we’ve done.
Kathryn is a UX designer and illustrator who has created a contemporary-meets-retro style to infuse energy and playfulness into her work. She creates full brand makeovers, punchy illustrations, and merchandise that reminds viewers and clients that design can be fun. She’s also a big advocate for the planet, which shows up in her work through her recurring plant motifs. When she’s not designing, you can catch her at her favorite place… her house. She’s a firm believer that there’s nothing like comfy clothes, home brewed coffee, and a good book. — via kathrynbethard.com
INSTAGRAM → WEBSITE → Projects worked on:
● “illuminations” Nature knows best Art series
2021
View her work:
"change your energy" illustration
"home is what you make it" illustration
"The Future is fake" illustration
"look alive" illustration
"grow your own way" illustration
"no plastic, no problem" illustration
Choukri Mekkaoui
Multimedia Artist & Creative Scientist
For our It’s Only Human show, Choukri created an original, large-scale, interactive brain using light sensory technology for participants to explore.
His creative works are developed based on the technology he uses in his research, blending the worlds of art, science, and technology to look at the human body in new ways.
Choukri Mekkaoui currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and is a world-renowned expert in cardiac diffusion imaging. Classically trained in France as a physicist and mathematician, Choukri approaches his work in healthcare through the lens of a physicist. His multidisciplinary expertise led to significant breakthroughs in medical imaging methods and technologies including multimodality imaging and diffusion. These are developments that will help us understand chronic diseases and detect them early enough to save lives. He has also explore the intersection of art, science, and technology, and was awarded the" “best image" at SCMR2015 for his piece, "The Heart of Renoir's Little Girl with a Spray of Flowers", which he generated by applying diffusion MRI tractography to a human heart and depicting its fiber architecture using the color schemes in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's celebrated painting. — via nmr.mgh.harvard.edu & tedxbeaconstreet.com
TEDx → Projects worked on:
● It’s Only Human
2016
View his work:
Interactive dti installation for the it's only human show
Interactive dti installation for the it's only human show
Interactive dti installation for the it's only human show
Interactive dti installation for the it's only human show
Esther Knox-Dekoning
Web & Digital Designer
Esther Knox-Dekoning is a multitalented designer and strategist who led her team at Sereth Design to create the visual foundation for The Plenary and various projects.
Through deep collaboration, skill, and vision, she stewarded The Plenary’s message into a vibrant visual experience.
Esther is the lead designer and creative director behind Sereth Design. She started Sereth Design with the intention to take her talents and experience to support small-to-medium sized businesses that were changing the world. Through Sereth Design, she works with entrepreneurs, social enterprises, and mission-driven brands all over the world to tell their stories and spearhead social impact. — via serethdesign.com
WEBSITE → INSTAGRAM →