Nikki (Niktari) Makagiansar is a designer, coder, and educator based in New York City who enjoys creating type-driven identity systems and websites.

Previously, she was a designer at Pentagram, where she helped develop data-driven and algorithmic identities.

Nikki teaches coding and interaction design classes at Parsons School of Design and The Cooper Union. She’s also a member of The New Museum’s NEW INC, where she’s exploring the possibilities between design, code, and solidarity economies.

Projects

Unearthing Air

Design

Data Viz

Code

An editorial website visualizing 24 hours of indoor air quality data, created in collaboration with journalist Todd Whitney.

R&M

Design

Code

Interactive moments for a husband-and-wife design studio website that reflect their type-driven approach.

I Voted

Data Viz

Code

A data-focused redesign of the “I Voted” sticker for Fast Company’s campaign.

Digital Architecture Lab

Identity

Motion

A community-driven, generative brand identity for a technology-focused innovation lab.

Wyth

Identity

Motion

A data-driven approach to a brand identity for a cloud-based experience platform.

Processing Foundation: Building Bridges

Design

Code

Promotional assets for Processing Foundation’s grants program, designed using p5.js.

Websites I’ve Made for Classes I’ve Taught

Design

Code

Class websites that serve as central hubs for courses I’ve taught.

Sandbox

Inspired by Karel Martens

Code

p5.js

Moiré

Code

paper.js

Godard

Code

p5.js

Typographic Knitting

Knit

Glitched Knitting Swatch

Code

p5.js

Knit

Glitched Knitting Chart

Code

p5.js

Tegamitype's 4-Year Anniversary

Code

p5.js

Terrain

Code

p5.js

Wheat Studies

Code

p5.js

Speaking

What's Next?

for Parsons School of Design
2025

Time is Money

for New Museum's DEMO2024
2024

Critical Computation

for Parsons School of Design
2023

Processing Community Catalog Launch

for Processing Foundation
2023

Generative Pathways: A Zine-Making Workshop

with SPICY and Secret Riso Club for The Brooklyn Art Book Fair
2022

Community Building and Resilience

for BeginCountour and The Processing Foundation
2022

Let’s Make a Zine

with SPICY and Secret Riso Club for Nowadays
2022

Theorizing Activism

for Barnard College
2019

Decolonizing the Media through Art, Activism, and Publishing

with SPICY for The New Museum Youth Summit
2019

Teaching

Combinatory Poetry with Variable Fonts in p5.js

TypeLab at Typographics
Summer 2025

Lettering for Type Lovers

School of Visual Arts
Spring 2025

Techniculture: A Critical Lens on Modular Type & Generative Design

Type Electives
Spring 2024

Advanced Design: Product Design

The Cooper Union
Ongoing

Core 2: Interaction

Parsons School of Design
Ongoing

Core 1: Interaction

Parsons School of Design
Ongoing

Additional Clients & Collaborators

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Processing Foundation

Conservation International

The New Museum

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This website was hand-coded using HTML, CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. All text is set in Söhne by Klim Type.