Patra Jongjitirat
As the Crow Walks
Graphic Design
Patra is founder and chief creative at As the Crow Walks, a cartography and graphic design studio that embraces the particularities of places and experiences. The studio realizes a variety of mapping, branding, and marketing projects across print and digital spaces, with client work focused on firms and organizations in the arts, culture, and community building. Working with AK Cultural Planning, Patra designed presentations and projects materials for World Music Institute, Audubon Society, and Storm King Art Center.
Past clients include the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, Brooklyn Historical Society, Apogee Journal, Broadway Housing Communities, Lantern Community Services, and Yeshiva University. She has also mapped cultural resources for several of the city’s business improvement districts, including the Meatpacking District Association, Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership, Long Island City Partnership, and Jamaica Center BID.
Prior to setting up her design studio in 2013, Patra was the in-house designer for the contemporary arts organization No Longer Empty, where she was responsible for exhibition didactics, marketing and outreach materials, and website. Her past experience working for Project for Public Spaces and Future Green Studio, a landscape design firm, centered around placemaking and how people interact with urban spaces. She holds a degree in Architectural Studies from Brown University and studied graphic design at Parsons The New School for Design. asthecrowwalks.com.