Lauren Akari

Creative Technologist/Product Designer
I am a Hawaii-born interaction designer and illustrator based in New York. I received my BFA in Design & Technology and BA in Literature from The New School in 2023. I’ve worked with companies such as Toyota Hawaii, Shutterstock and Amazon.

In my free time, I enjoy designing gig posters, drawing reportage illustrations in the city and designing video games.
I am a Hawaii-born interaction designer and illustrator based in New York. I received my BFA in Design & Technology and BA in Literature from The New School in 2023. I’ve worked with companies such as Toyota Hawaii, Shutterstock and Amazon.

In my free time, I enjoy designing gig posters, drawing reportage illustrations in the city and designing video games.
Thesis Faculty
Ernesto Klar, Alexander King, Xin Xin, Tresson Canley, Aaron Freedman

A Home For Emily

A Home For Emily

“A Home For Emily” is a first-person exploration game based off of William Faulkner’s short story, “A Rose for Emily”. The game is set from the perspective of an “outsider looking in”, who is assigned to do one last sweep of a house formerly lived in by a woman named Emily. Throughout the experience, the player slowly learns more about who Emily was at various stages in her life through temporal shifts.