Carrie Chatterson

Founder & Creative Director

• Breathes life into bold ideas to humanize brands and connect people
• A mastermind designer, balancing a punk-rock heart with a Bauhaus spine
• Once a small-town kid sketching cartoons in notebooks
• Now a musician, balancing the octaves between family, work and two bands

Carrie is a design leader and entrepreneur with 28 years of experience shaping brands. In 2005, she founded CCS in New York City, building it into a practice rooted in the belief that design thinking has the power to positively transform any business. As its creative director, she guides the studio’s remote team while helping clients forge meaningful connections with their audiences, leading concept and design development across print, digital and environmental touchpoints. Carrie holds a BS in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning (DAAP) and is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program. Beyond her studio work, Carrie brings the same creative spirit to her personal pursuits. She and her husband collaborate on Chromatic Twins, an art and music project, and together with their family they perform in their band The Dot Tones. She also partners with her son in Devilish Vintage, a curated reselling business specializing in mid-century ceramics.

Jen Gianquitti Dech

Senior Art Director

• Attention to detail champion with an eye nothing gets by
• Keeper of brand consistency, streamlined processes and airtight deadlines
• Beach kid raised on banana splits with grandpa and poker nights with grandma
• Bookworm devourer of 50+ books a year

Jen drives day-to-day art direction and account leadership at CCS with a career forged in some of the most demanding creative environments in media and retail. Before joining the studio, she held senior roles at CVS Health and The Wall Street Journal, contributing to the WSJ Magazine launch and leading rebrands for Shape Magazine and Art + Auction. With degrees from Pratt Institute and Keene State College, Jen bridges strategic thinking with polished execution — turning customer insight into brand experiences that hold together across every touchpoint.

Haley Cwynar

Art Director

• Merges aesthetic instinct and functionality to evoke effortless visual communication
• Composer of visual rhythm between illustration and typography
• Botanical soul with an ink garden sleeve cultivating art from nature
• Grounded art director thoughtfully nurturing every project

Haley brings a refined visual sensibility and exacting technical skill to every project at CCS. She works across all phases of design — from early concept through final production — with a deep focus on typography, composition and illustration. Before joining the studio, she honed her craft at Studio Rainwater in Providence. A Johnson & Wales University graduate and active AIGA Rhode Island member, Haley creates work that balances expressive aesthetics with thoughtful, human-centered usability.

Rob Chatterson

Production & Motion Graphics Director

• Injects energy and movement into vision connecting story to audience
• Technical backbone of the studio undefeated in the art of production done right
• Once a boy with a camera making stop-motion movies with G.I. Joes and Play-Doh
• Now a multidisciplined technologist finding perfection in the balancing act

Rob has been a cornerstone of CCS since 2009, bringing production depth and motion expertise to every digital and visual media project the studio takes on. His background spanning photography, video and post-production gives him a multidimensional approach to creative problem-solving that few generalists can match. Before joining the studio, he worked as a producer and photographer at Corbis while running his own photography practice in New York City. A School of Visual Arts graduate and CompTIA-certified IT professional, Rob ensures every project is as technically airtight as it is visually compelling.

Ka Pang

Digital Experience Director

• Creates digital experiences through elegant, purposeful engineering
• A minimalist mind engineering maximum impact with an invisible hand
• Once a tech-obsessed kid drawn to the how behind every gadget that crossed his path
• Now a digital world builder who believes technology should be felt, not seen

Ka brings over 25 years of digital design and development experience to CCS, equally fluent in front-end design and back-end systems. He creates digital experiences that balance beauty with performance — work recognized in Communication Arts and Print for clients including Reuters, UNICEF and PwC. A graduate of Kutztown University, Ka operates from a core belief that the best technology feels invisible, stepping aside so the brand experience can take center stage.

Miguel Younger

Digital Strategy Director

• Absorbs data to succinctly manifest digital worlds from nothing
• A coding magician optimizing brand performance with data driven results
• Started out as a contemplative comic-drawing kid who saw the internet as a kind of magic
• Now a digital zen master rewriting the matrix from the inside

Miguel leads digital strategy at CCS with 29 years of expertise spanning usability, e-commerce and conversion rate optimization. He starts by understanding the business need, then draws from best practices across disciplines — iterating until the answer is both elegant and measurable. His work has helped boutique and national brands transform digital platforms into scalable revenue drivers. A Kutztown University graduate, Miguel brings analytical precision and operational clarity to every stage of the customer experience, helping brands strengthen performance while standing out in competitive markets.

Francesca Bartolucci

Designer & Illustrator

• Fuses fine art instincts with digital execution to create design with personality
• Artisan smuggler slipping hand-crafted contraband into the digital world
• Once a student who won a national Crayola branding competition
• Now a professional coffee-fueled illustrator

Francesca brings a hand-crafted visual sensibility to branding and interactive design at CCS. A graduate of Moravian University with a BFA in Graphic and Interactive Design, she combines traditional illustration skills with modern digital execution to build visual systems with genuine personality. During college she served as president of the Kappa Pi International Art Honor Society and won a national branding competition directed by Crayola. Francesca creates work that helps brands communicate with clarity, originality and impact.

Dave Meister

Content Strategist & Writer

• Reverse-engineers strategy through story and scenario
• Lean, sharp writing built to land with impact
• Former altar boy hiding heavy-metal mixtapes under the bed
• Kitchen wizard blasting Rush on vinyl between drafts

David brings a screenwriter’s storytelling precision to content strategy at CCS. A graduate of UCLA’s Professional Program in TV Writing, he has earned more than 50 awards, including many finalist laurels and a Grand Prize win at StoryPros. His background spans poetry, game design, illustration and children’s publishing, giving him a multidimensional approach to narrative development. Whether crafting brand messaging or high-level content strategy, David focuses on creating authentic stories that connect with audiences and drive measurable engagement.

Kim Bianco

Senior Production Designer

• Guides complex production without losing a single pixel
• A pre-cognition problem solver with an eye for what others miss
• Once a kid who dreamed of being a pirate but motion-sickness foiled her plans
• Now sailing the high seas of production design, steering every project safely to shore

Kim brings more than 29 years of print and digital production expertise to CCS, managing complex deliverables with the kind of meticulous accuracy that keeps ambitious projects from going sideways. Her background includes production work for Goldman Sachs and S&P Dow Jones Indices, where precision and consistency were non-negotiable. A BS in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati (DAAP), Kim has an uncanny ability to pull apart what she’s given and rebuild it stronger — catching every leaf, branch and knot while chasing the squirrels out of the files. She combines organization, craftsmanship and technical excellence to move projects cleanly from concept to final output.