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Bio

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Laurel is an artist and designer based in New York. A lecturer in graphic design at Yale University, Laurel is also founder of the design studio Beautiful Company. She also currently serves as Creative Director of The Creative Independent, a growing archive of artist interviews founded by Kickstarter. Previously, she worked at the New York-based design studio Linked by Air. Her book Perfume Area (Ambient Works, 2015), coauthored with Sydney Shen, contemplates thirty-six designer fragrances.