Tatiana Sperhacke is a Brazilian designer with a BFA in Fine Arts from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), and a MFA in design from the School of Visual Arts - NY. Her thesis project received awards by The Art Directors Club in New York. She participated in the sustainable design exhibition Hautegreen 2007 in NYC. She worked as a designer and associated art director at Scholastic Inc., and currently directs her own studio in Porto Alegre - Brazil working with graphic design and developing new products using repurposed materials. She also teaches design at two major Universities in southern Brazil.