Cooper Union

Richard Yurewitch

Adjunct Instructor

Richard Yurewitch is a New York-based designer and creative developer. He earned his BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2022.

Richard professionally contributes to the emoji team at Google and The Unicode Consortium. Projects he contributed to were featured in The Verge, Google’s The Keyword, and have been recognized by The Webby Awards. Richard’s work enables people to play with Emoji Kitchen and to express themselves with emoji in their keyboards.

While attending Cooper Union, Richard received the Henry Dropkin Award and a Rhoda Lubalin Fellowship. He also designed and developed web experiences for Cooper Union’s Autonomy Lab, The IDS Public Lecture Series, and the End of Year Show.

Richard maintains a generative art practice, using code as a medium to create procedural geometries.

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.