Richard The is a designer, educator and partner at the interdisciplinary design studio TheGreenEyl. His work investigates the aesthetic and cultural implications of technology on society, and spans graphic design, user interfaces and immersive installations.
He has worked with technology and consumer brands including Google, Meta, Mozilla, HBO, Humanscale, O'Reilly and Formlabs, and with cultural and academic institutions including the Kennedy Center, the Toledo Museum of Art, the MIT Museum, the MIT Media Lab and Columbia GSAPP.
His work has been exhibited internationally at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Design Museum London, Ars Electronica, 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo, Milan Design Week, the MIT Museum, the Williams College Museum of Art and Eyebeam.
Richard is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. and was named an ADC Young Gun. His projects have been honored by SEGD, Core77, AIGA 365 and the Tokyo Type Directors Club, and featured in Wired, Fast Company Design, The Verge, Gizmodo, Dezeen, Surface, Colossal and Creative Applications. His research has been supported by the Google Art & Machine Intelligence research award, a Knight Foundation Museum Technology grant and the Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts.
Richard is an Associate Professor of Interaction Design at Parsons School of Design, where he directs the MS Data Visualization program. He has previously taught at MIT, NYU ITP and the School of Visual Arts.
Born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a German mother and an Indonesian father, Richard holds an MFA in Visual Communication from the University of the Arts Berlin and a Master of Science from the MIT Media Lab. Before TheGreenEyl, he was a designer at Sagmeister Inc. and a Creative Director at Google Creative Lab.