Mark is a Founding Partner and serves as the studio’s Creative Director. Mark possesses the innate ability to lead teams and guide the creative process, as well as contribute as a hands-on team member - designing and creating many of the projects at Zero. Mark has over a decade of experience, working at large traditional advertising agencies, small digital design firms and in-house in publishing companies. Mark currently serves as a jury member on industry-leading organizations Awwwards.com and CSS Design Awards. Mark is writing this bio about Mark and it makes him feel funny. He’s had the privilege of leading, mentoring and learning among diverse teams—resulting in some amazing and award-winning creative and experiences. Mark has worked with a variety of notable clients ranging from major household names like Google and Conde Naste to startups and small businesses. All of which presented interesting and challenging problems to solve. Mark strives to make fresh and innovative work that actually works and have as much fun as possible during the process.

Joseph is a Founding Partner and the Managing Director at Zero. Coming from a background of strategy, user experience, and technology, their passions lie in delivering contemporary products. They've been working in the agency world in NYC for over 10 years with previous gigs at Wondersauce, Area 17, and Canvas.

Joseph is always looking for new and unique challenges for emerging brands, business models and human behavior. Coupled with their passion to achieve contemporary and human-centered design experiences, they enjoy the service aspect of working with individuals and brands. Joseph has built his career on servicing clients to empower their values and achieve an enjoyable & collaborative working experience. They excel at crafting unique problem-solving processes that are suited to the challenge at hand while staying grounded in empathy for clients and users alike.

Lastly, Joseph is a firm believer in achieving an enjoyable and open process with their internal teams in order to fully realize progressive work.

Chelsea is a Partner and Creative Director at Zero who builds thoughtful brand worlds, digital experiences and campaigns. She leads the team in creating great work that is simple, meaningful and effective as well as building the ever evolving culture at the studio.

She enjoys building visual systems and digging into the research and strategy phase of projects. She is interested in understanding our stories and lived experiences to create things that make our time here better, and is driven by the desire to make things that foster connection and belonging, solve business problems and create social change. 

Prior to launching Zero alongside her partners, she served as a lead designer on the digital team at Hillary for America in Brooklyn, New York, where she proudly worked to nominate the first woman president. Chelsea grew up in the midwest and graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design with a BFA in Communication Design. She has taught branding and typography classes at Parsons School of Design in NYC and served as President of AIGA NY from 2020-2022.