Cooper Union

Julie Harris

Adjunct Instructor

Julie Harris is a designer working on identity systems and digital products at Doberman. Her recent projects range from an AI-powered calculus app and an identity for accessible eyewear. With a focus on curiosity and care, she’s interested in finding the intersection of art, education, and technology. Julie has taught multiple design courses at the Outreach Pre-College Program. She received her BFA from Cooper Union and previously worked for Apple and frog design.

DartxDesign fundraising event to benefit the non-profit Art Start. Hosted during New York Design Week, the identity was recognized with a Graphis award.

Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
“My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”
From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.
Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.