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Cabengo's selective practice ensures exceptional work and a high level of client service; principals are always hands-on, and project teams are carefully tailored to match client requirements. For larger projects, we draw from a specialized community of artists, architects, designers, illustrators, engineers, photographers, video editors, writers, animators, and musicians. Whether the team is composed of three or thirty, collaboration drives our process. This discipline of creative exchange creates a wildly generative and nurturing context for inventing new forms and producing distinctive and effective communication.


Hillary Leone, President and Creative Director
Cabengo's founder and principal, Hillary Leone, is an artist, writer, and producer with more than eighteen years of creative, management and technology experience. As a seasoned professional with hands-on experience leading projects for large cultural and educational institutions, she brings strong creative and project management skills to the team. She is a keen communicator and active listener, a synthetic thinker who can weave disparate ideas into a practical work plan, and a generous collaborator. Current projects include developing civics games for middle school students for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Prior to founding Cabengo, Hillary had been an internationally-recognized installation and new media artist. She is a two-time NEA grant recipient and Whitney Biennial artist, with experience in a broad range of materials. Her work, widely represented in private and museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been exhibited in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and has been featured in print, television, and radio. Hillary was an adjunct professor and visiting critic at the Rhode Island School of Design for four years and has lectured widely in the US and abroad. Hillary's broad spectrum of experience ­ creative, conceptual, analytical ­ informs and guides every Cabengo project. Education: BA, English and Semiotics, Brown University; BFA, Photography, California Institute of the Arts; Studio Art, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Jenna Park, Art Director, Designer
Jenna Park is an artist and designer with more than twelve years of experience in interaction design, video, graphic design, and sound design for theater, websites and screen-based interactions. She has worked as an Art Director and Designer with Cabengo since 2000 and has freelanced as a consultant for numerous design and media firms including C&G Partners and Oxygen Media. Previously, she served as Art Director at Muse Networks, an international online arts and culture news bureau. Prior to working in interactive media, Jenna was an Associate Art Director at Arcade, Inc. where she created promotional prototypes and print collateral for clients such as Estée Lauder, Calvin Klein and Lancôme. She is also Creative Director and Editor for PopLife Media, a company that publishes online magazines covering technology and gadgets for women (popgadget.net) and innovative design and products for kids and parents (babygadget.net). Earlier this year, she founded a Brooklyn-based bakery called Whimsy & Spice with her pastry chef husband. Education: Fine Art, the Cooper Union School of Art; BA, Music Composition and Technology, Evergreen State College; MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University.

Angie Keefer, Designer
Angie Keefer is an artist and designer with more than ten years of experience in graphic design, product design and interactive design. Her experience as an interactive designer began at the Yale Urban Design Workshop where she helped transform an extensive urban planning study into a web-based, searchable interface. Since then, Angie has worked for numerous clients in the arts and media, including Christie's, Sotheby's, index Magazine, BAM Local Development Corporation, and ArmitageGONE! Dance Group. For Christie's, Angie designed the company's website, online promotions, interactive cd-r, and gallery kiosks. Previously, she worked as art director for ELLE group, overseeing the promotion art departments for the ELLE magazine titles. Angie started a self-named company in 2003 to design and produce printed textiles and handbags. Her designs have been published in national and international press, and were included in the Gen Art Fresh Faces in Fashion exhibition in 2005. Education: BA, Art, Yale University.

Darina Karpov, Designer
Darina Karpov is an artist and designer with ten years of experience developing fresh, sophisticated graphics for cultural and educational clients. A versatile designer with extensive experience in type and color, she has worked at many design studios, including Pentagram, NY (with Michael Bierut); Anthony McCall Associates., NY; and Rutka Weadock Design, Baltimore. Her design projects include the Yale Tercentennial Archive (CD-ROM), History of Science at Yale (hard cover book), and the Yale School of Architecture View Book; a Flash-based interactive annual report for MSK Cancer Center; and print collateral, website, and motion graphics for the Media that Matters Film Festival. In her fine artwork, she creates intricate hyper narratives that reference a range of sources, real and imagined, from soviet commercial arts and medieval miniatures to renaissance and baroque etchings. Awards include the 2001 Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize and the 2001 Carl Purlington Rollins Fellowship, both from the Yale School of Art. Her work was published in the 2001 New York Type Directors Club Design Annual, and 2000 the Communication Arts Graphic Design Annual. Education: Costume Design, Moscow Institute of Technology, St Petersburg, Russia; BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (studied with Abbot Miller); MFA, Graphic Design, Yale University School of Art.

Catarina Mota, Interactive Designer/ Developer
Catarina Mota is a multimedia artist with ten years of experience in interaction design, electronics and micro-controller programming, and Lingo and ActionScripting. Catarina was a research fellow at the Interactive Telecommunications program of the New York University, where she specialized in physical computing and interactive environments with narrative structures. The environments she developed and exhibited included a simulated subway car and an eye tracking system. Catarina has written, directed and edited multiple short films and videos, and her flash movies and short films have been shown in several international festivals. She also created websites for several New York film production companies and worked on experimental video projects for the web. Education: Communications and Film, Nova University of Lisbon (Portugal); MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York.


Fiona Brandon, Information Architect/ Usability Specialist
Fiona Brandon is an information architect and usability specialist, with nine years of experience designing and testing internet applications. At the Scient Corporation, Fiona served as the lead information architect and usability specialist, developing Internet applications for multinational investment banks and retailers. She also worked as an interface designer for MusicNet, and a creative producer and content writer for AOL's Thrive On-line. She has served as an information architect and usability specialist for new media agencies, including Organic, Frog Design, Ruder Finn Interactive, and the Deutsch advertising agency. Prior to entering the interactive field, Fiona worked as a print journalist and radio talk show host for KUSF in San Francisco. Education: BA, English and Creative Writing, Brown University; MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University.