Creative Director

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2020–Present / Meta, Director Brand + Product Creative — Instagram, Threads, Edits, Instants

2019–2020 / WeWork, Head of Creative, Global ECD

2017–2019 / Wolff Olins NY, Head of Design

2014–2020 / Pratt Institute, Assistant Professor

2013–2017 / Anomaly NY, Head of Design

2007–2013 / C/C NY, Creative Director

Notable Clients:

Abercrombie & Fitch

CitiGroup

CoverGirl

Diageo

Google

Hyatt

Instagram

Moet Hennessy

Marriott

New Museum

New York Life

Remy Cointreau

Storm King Art Center

Sally Hansen

Spotify

Threads

Wikipedia

YouTube




Cynthia Pratomo is a Director of Brand and Product Design leading identity, cultural experience, and product creative for Instagram, Threads, Edits, and Meta AI. She directed Instagram's first major brand refresh in over ten years — the new script wordmark, identity system, and viewfinder device that reframes every image around the act of making it. She also built and launched the Threads brand from zero to a platform used by hundreds of millions, and now leads creative vision for generative media and AI-native product experience for Product Creative at Meta.

Before Meta, Cynthia led design for the international branding agency Wolff Olins and was Head of Design at Anomaly, she also taught portfolio at Pratt Institute. She holds an MA in Art & Design History from Hunter College, where her thesis examined MoMA's publication design — a grounding in cultural institutions that shapes how she thinks about brand as more than visual identity.

She lives outside New York City with her family, and works at the intersection of craft, culture, and the systems that scale it.


Education:

Hunter College, NY / MA History of Art

Wesleyan University, CT / BA College of Social Studies

Judging + Speaking:

One Show Jury / 2025

AIGA National Design Conference / 2023

Harvard Design X Influence / 2018

SVA Brandstand Techlash / 2018

Fastco Innovation Festival / 2017

Wolff Olins Summit / 2017

Clio Brand Design Awards / 2017

Press + Publications:

Instagram Brand Launch

CampaignUS

It’s Nice That

Peripheral Visions

BrandNew

Communication Arts

Recognition

D&AD Wood Pencil

AIGA 365: Design Effectiveness

D&AD Professional Awards Annual

Communication Annual 52

Print Magazine Design Annual

Collective Distinction:

Wolff Olins: FastCo Most Innovative in Design / 2018

Anomaly: AdAge Agency of the Year / 2017