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

Since 2022 she has served as editor-in-chief of the design journal Untapped, which she conceptualized and launched in February 2023. An independent editorial initiative published by the design company Henrybuilt, the journal’s long form, ideas- and human-focused stories, written by leading cultural critics, show how design impacts everyday life.

Prior to that, she was the marketing director at Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, where she contributed to its winning proposal for Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center.

Tiffany wrote for Surface for more than a decade, starting in the late aughts (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 later served as executive editor of the award-winning podcast Time Sensitive.

She has managed partnerships at New York’s Museum of Arts and Design and 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 leads 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, Emily Adams Bode Aujla, and Ivy Ross, among others. Her interview with Allan Wexler and Michael Yarinksy will be featured in A New Futurist Cookbook (Lars Müller Publishers), out in 2027.

The programs she organizes for Untapped—with entities including Judd Foundation; the Los Angeles gallery Marta; the New York galleries Friedman Benda, A83, and Superhouse; the Brooklyn bookstore Head Hi; Vitra; the Venice Architecture Biennale; and Rockwell Group—often includes site-specific performance as a means to viscerally connect viewers to an event’s ideas. She has collaborated with choreographers Roderick George and Morgan Griffin, designer Nifemi Ogunro, dancer Michael J. Love, thereminist Armen Ra, and singer Nicholas Ryan Gant, among others.

Dedicated to supporting the next generation of design journalists, Tiffany has been a guest lecturer and critic at Barnard College, New York University, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. She teaches a recurring writing workshop for architects and designers at New York’s Center for Architecture.