Tiffany Jow is a New York–based writer and editor. She is interested in how creative expression—in art and design in particular—can promote new ways of thinking, seeing, and feeling.

Since 2022 she has served as editor-in-chief of the design journal Untapped, which she conceptualized and launched in February 2023. Prior to that, she was marketing director for Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, where she contributed to its winning proposal for Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center.

Tiffany wrote for Surface magazine for more than a decade (Wendell Castle, Jonathan Anderson, Amy Sherald, James Wines, and Milton Glaser are among her favorite interviews), holding staff positions as design editor and features director, and spearheading print, digital, and video for its custom content arm, Surface Studios. (She spoke with Arjun Basau about working for the publication, and its influence on Untapped, on Ep. 30 of The Full-Bleed Podcast.) She has also served as executive editor of the podcast Time Sensitive.

She has managed corporate partnerships in the development office at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design and has worked in the research department at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, where she contributed to the 2011 exhibition “Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970–1990,” curated by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt.

Passionate about conveying creativity’s relevance to a wide audience, Tiffany regularly organizes and leads public conversations throughout the United States and beyond, speaking with people such as Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Ferrisen of Formafantsma, Torkwase Dyson, Wendy Maruyama, Misha Kahn, Deyan Sudjic, and Ivy Ross, among others.

The programming she curates for Untapped—with entities including the Los Angeles gallery Marta; the New York galleries Friedman Benda, A83, and Superhouse; the Brooklyn bookstore Head Hi; Vitra; the National Academy of Design; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and Rockwell Group—often includes site-specific peformance as a means to viscerally connect viewers to an event’s ideas.

Dedicated to supporting the next generation of design writers, Tiffany has been a guest lecturer and critic at New York University, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts.