Andrea Lauer, Chief Creative Officer of Risen from the Thread, a design-thinking and innovation agency, asks us to consider the possibility of a new career path paradigm, where work feels less like work and more like a quest for curiosity and purpose.
Andrea Lauer is an Artist, Designer, Educator, Creative Director and Inventor who resides in New York City and produces multi-media experiences with a focus on the human form. Ongoing collaborations include Meow Meow, Pilobolus dance, McCann Worldgroup, NYU Langone Medical Center, choreographer Elizabeth Streb and Amanda Palmer. Lauer’s credits include: Rolling Stone, American Vogue, Interview, Nylon, Paper and OUT magazine. Her work has also appeared at the Grammy Awards and Broadway in productions “American Idiot” and “Bring It On.” She is the co-founder of Brick X Brick, an art collective that does public art performance against misogyny that has been included in the New York Historical Archives. She is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Risen from the Thread a design thinking and innovation agency focused on the human body and its relationship with technology and a sustainable Jumpsuit line RISEN DIVISION. Client categories include fashion, marketing, fine art, medicine, sports, and entertainment. She was chosen as one of Randi Zuckerberg’s #52Womenin52Weeks and is a 2017 MIT Media Lab Directors Fellow.
