About Us

Thérèse Hannigan President/Creative Director

Therese Hannigan is President, Creative Director, and owner of Dumbwaiter Design, her second entrepreneurial venture, which she launched in 2005, to provide innovative multi-media design. She has a BFA in Graphic Design, and an MS in Graphic Arts Publishing, both from Rochester Institute of Technology, and is a tenured Associate Professor in New Media Design there. Therese effectively accomplishes both the right brain role of creative director, and the left brain roles of leading, managing, and growing Dumbwaiter Design, while still occasionally enjoying her first love—designing brand identities and print.

Words from Teammates

caring & understanding, creative entrepreneur, generous perfectionist, complex & deep, creative & artistic, private & open

The List

• Designer Josef Müller-Brockmann, Armin Hofmann, Diane Von Furstenburg
• Movie Dysfunctional Family Holiday Movie - The Ref
• Book The Alchemist
• Quote "Your mind is made up, but your mouth is undone." - Elvis Costello
• Sport Hockey
• Design Tool Type
• TV Six Feet Under, Family Guy, Absolutely Fabulous
• Clothes Burberry Baseball Hat (great when I am too lazy to do my hair or in hiding)
• Drink Anything with red bull involved
• Car 57 corvette convertible
• Dislikes Pretentious people
• Games Rayman Raving Rabbids, illegal lawn jarts
• College Course Experimental Typography, Art of China, Korea and Japan (taken) - Dynamic Typography, Information Design (taught)

After Hours

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