About
Tanvi is a design technologist operating at the intersection of data, aesthetics, & the humanities.
She works as a is a design engineer at Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network, BIPOC Design History and is a co-author of Data by Design: A History in Five Charts (MIT Press, 2026). She is also a Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute. Previously, she worked at Pentagram, Public Policy Lab, and Spotify. She is based in Brooklyn with her two cats — Yuchi and Bubbles.
Recent Engagements
Writing ↓
Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Non-Binary Field Guide for Graphic Designers by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias
Contributing AuthorPrinceton Architectural Press • 2021
Speaking ↓
The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Modern Data Visualization
KeynoteOutlier • 2025
co-presented with Lauren Klein
Listening to (Digital) Images: A Black Sound Studies Approach to Alt-Text
TalkDH • 2024
co-presented with Margy Adams, Shiyao Li, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein
Open Source Art Contributor's Conference
Artist TalkUniversity of Denver • 2023
The Line Graph and the Slave Ship: Rethinking the Origins of Data Viz
TalkYale University Digital Humanities Lab • 2023
co-presented with Lauren Klein
Teaching ↓
Black Design in America
ClassCalArts Extended Studies • Fall 2025
co-taught with Silas Munro & Kriss Nuzzi from BIPOC Design History
Typography III
Guest LectureRISD • Fall 2025
AMST 201: Introduction to American Studies
Guest LectureEmory University • Spring 2024
The College of Arts, Media and Design
Guest LectureNortheastern University • 2023
MAT in Art Education
Guest LectureMICA • 2023
Colophon
Typographic
This website is typeset in Space Grotesk by Florian Karsten.
Technical
This website is built using Next.js, an open-source web framework to help build React-based applications. All styles have been set up using Tailwind.