Munus Shih

Munus Shih (he/they) is a Taiwanese Minnan-Hakka designer, educator, and researcher based in New York. They are an ⁠Assistant Professor in Graduate Communications Design at Pratt Institute, working across critical technology, open-source publishing, design pedagogy, and cooperative practice.

Munus’s work explores how designers and communities can shape the technologies and systems they use. Their projects include ⁠BeginContour (2022), ⁠p5.genzine (2023), and ⁠p5.book (2026), alongside contributions to the ⁠p5.js ecosystem. They co-founded ⁠CoAssembly, Taiwan’s first design studio organized around cooperative principles, and organize ⁠Processing Community Day Taiwan and ⁠Other Islands Book Fair.

Munus is a former ⁠Processing Foundation Fellow and Designer in Residence, and is a member of ⁠NEW INC at the New Museum. They have taught at ⁠Parsons, ⁠Cooper Union, and the ⁠School for Poetic Computation, and presented or exhibited at ⁠NYU ITP, ⁠Harvard GSD, ⁠National Taiwan University, ⁠Typographics, and ⁠Pioneer Works. Their professional work includes projects with AIGA, ⁠Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, ⁠Gallery of Contemporary Art, and ⁠The New York Review of Books. Their work has been recognized by ⁠Taiwan’s Hakka Affairs Council, the ⁠Information Is Beautiful Awards, and ⁠Awwwards.