Tsia Carson, Partner
Tsia earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University’s Academic Computing Center for Art and Design and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Tsia has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts, Parsons School of Design, and CUNY Hunter College. She has been a visiting critic and lecturer at Yale University and Maryland Institute of Art.

Tsia has blogged extensively on design including a guest stint on Powell’s Books, and as a columnist on MSN’s “Open for Design”. She recently authored a book with Flat titled, “Craftivity”, published by Harper Collins, which was included on Amazons Best Books of 2006: Top 10 Editors Picks for Home & Garden. As a design practitioner, Tsia has been interviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek Magazine, National Public Radio, and Simply Green with Danny Seo. In 2007 she was selected by Graphic Design USA Magazine as one of “Fifty People to Watch”, but apparently people have short attention spans.

Doug Lloyd, Partner
Doug earned his Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University’s Academic Computing Center for Art and Design and Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Prior to Flat, Doug ran another successful company, Queue Production, which focused on experimental media productions. Projects included a 5,000 square foot, artists-run haunted house, an interactive narrative telephone line, and an international media hoax called Arm the Homeless.

Doug has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, and University of the Arts. He has guest lectured at New York University and served as an ongoing visiting critic and thesis advisor at Yale University’s Graduate Design Program. Doug’s thinking is a staple of contemporary design discourse and has appeared in numerous publications including Metropolis, How Magazine and Print. He, and partner Tsia Carson, were profiled in International Design Magazine’s “ID’s 40 under 30” (40 influential designers under 30 years old) in 2000.

Petter Ringbom, Partner
Petter Ringbom directs identity, graphic design and video projects at Flat. Petter grew up in Sweden, and was trained at The Cooper Union in New York. He has served on the board of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). He has taught at Parsons School of Design and New York University, and been a guest critic at Yale, School of Visual Arts and Hunter College. Petter juried the One Show Interactive Annual, and presented at the AIGA GAIN conference. He is a contributing editor for the online design community, QBN.

Petter is a 1 km Film Award nominee at the Stockholm Film Festival for his short film May Fly. He was selected to participate in the Time Square Alliance Urban Forest Exhibition and AIGA’s Cause + Effect project. His work consistently appears in design books, compendiums and annuals. In his spare time, Petter tinkers with vintage British motorcycles.