# Tina Roth Eisenberg

> Tina Roth Eisenberg is a Swiss-born, Brooklyn-based designer, entrepreneur, and community builder best known as the founder and CEO of CreativeMornings. After arriving in New York in 1999, she built a career around turning personal frustrations into useful public experiments: the swissmiss design blog, the coworking communities Studiomates and Friends Work Here, the TeuxDeux task app, Tattly temporary tattoos, and a free breakfast talk that grew into a volunteer-powered global network.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at CreativeMornings
- **Organizations:** CreativeMornings, swissmiss, Friends Work Here, TeuxDeux, Tattly, Studiomates
- **From:** Speicher, Switzerland
- **Nationality:** Swiss
- **Education:** Communication design, Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
- **Known for:** Founded CreativeMornings in 2008 and grew it from one New York gathering into a volunteer-powered network in more than 240 cities across 70 countries., Built or co-built swissmiss, Studiomates, Friends Work Here, TeuxDeux, and Tattly as side projects that became enduring businesses or communities., Created a free global archive of recorded creative talks through CreativeMornings.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Graduated in communication design and moved from Switzerland to New York for what was intended to be a three-month stay; an internship quickly became a full-time job and visa.
- **2002** — Joined the web agency PlumbDesign, later Thinkmap, where she served as design director and worked on Visual Thesaurus.
- **2005** — Started swissmiss as a personal design archive; it developed into a widely followed design blog.
- **2006** — Founded her own design studio after the birth of her daughter.
- **2008** — Opened the Studiomates coworking space and started CreativeMornings in New York as a free monthly breakfast and short talk.
- **2010** — Co-created TeuxDeux, a deliberately simple web-based task manager.
- **2011** — Founded Tattly after disliking the temporary tattoos in her daughter's party bag; the company licensed designs and paid royalties to artists.
- **2015** — Opened Friends Work Here, the successor to Studiomates, in Brooklyn.
- **2018** — Reported that Tattly had paid $1 million in artist royalties; CreativeMornings had reached 186 cities and 65 countries.
- **2022** — Sold Tattly to BIC and shifted her role toward CreativeMornings.
- **2024** — CreativeMornings announced Adobe as its largest global partner and received a $1 million Harnisch Foundation grant, its first major institutional funding.
- **2026** — CreativeMornings organized Release Day, a collective deadline for people around the world to publish personal creative projects.

## Achievements

- Founded CreativeMornings in 2008 and grew it from one New York gathering into a volunteer-powered network in more than 240 cities across 70 countries.
- Built or co-built swissmiss, Studiomates, Friends Work Here, TeuxDeux, and Tattly as side projects that became enduring businesses or communities.
- Created a free global archive of recorded creative talks through CreativeMornings.
- Built Tattly around licensed artist work and reported reaching $1 million in royalties paid to artists by 2018.
- Secured CreativeMornings' first major institutional funding, a $1 million Harnisch Foundation grant announced in December 2024.
- Helped establish coworking in Brooklyn through Studiomates years before the model became commonplace.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — CreativeMornings staged Release Day with Adobe and Creative Quests, inviting people worldwide to publish personal projects on a shared deadline.
- **2025-04** — Published A Love Letter to the People Who Believe in People, connecting her childhood fan-club story with CreativeMornings' culture of mutual encouragement.
- **2025-02** — Hosted a participatory CreativeMornings/New York conversation about how creative communities are thinking about and using AI.
- **2024-12** — CreativeMornings announced a $1 million grant from the Harnisch Foundation, the first major institutional funding in its 16-year history.
- **2024-11** — CreativeMornings announced Adobe as its largest global partner.

## Links

- Website: https://www.swiss-miss.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/swissmiss
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/swissmiss
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@creativemornings
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swissmiss/

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Last updated: 2026-09-27