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michael grant is the director of communication at the School
of Visual Arts, New York. He has held leadership roles in
marketing and communications for the visual and performing
arts since the late 1990s.
deborah hussey is a New York–based editor and writer specializing
in art and art-related topics. She is the author of Monumental: The
Reimagined World of Kevin O’Callaghan and recently completed
editing a book on advanced problems in fine-art appraisal. She is
board president of Enki Education.
aaron kenedi is the FORMER editor-in-chief of Print, where
he was responsible for developing the content for the award-
winning magazine, the book division, design events, and
two digital properties (including Imprint).
linda king is a lecturer in design history, theory, and visual
communication at the Institute of Art, Design and
Technology, Dublin, Ireland.
beth kleber is the archivist for the Milton Glaser Design Study
Center and the School of Visual Arts Archives, which she
helped found in 2006. The Archives contain work from
distinguished designers and illustrators including Milton
Glaser, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, Henry Wolf,
Seymour Chwast, James McMullan, Heinz Edelmann,
George Tscherny, and Tony Palladino.
andrea lange is an architecture and design critic whose work has
appeared in Dwell, Print, New York Magazine, and the New York
Times. In 2012, Princeton Architectural Press published her
second book, Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language
of Buildings and Cities.
phil patton is the author of more than a dozen books,
writes about design for the New York Times, and has been
curator of several museum shows, including Different Roads,
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He teaches in
the Design Criticism Program of the School of Visual Arts,
New York.
maria popova (@brainpicker) is the founder and editor
of BrainPickings.org, an inventory of cross-disciplinary
curiosity. She writes for Wired UK, The Atlantic, Nieman
Journalism Lab, and Design Observer, among others, and is
an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
emily potts is senior acquisitions editor at Rockport Publishers
and content editor for RockPaperInk, Inspiration, Ideas
& Opinions from Design Fanatics (www.rockpaperink.com).
rick poynor is a writer, critic, lecturer, and curator specializing in
design, media, and visual culture. He founded Eye, cofounded
Design Observer, and contributes columns to Eye and Print.
His latest book is Uncanny: Surrealism and Graphic Design.
kerry william purcell is a lecturer in design history at The
University of Hertfordshire. His publications include Alexey
Brodovitch (Phaidon Press, 2002) and Josef Müller-Brockmann
(2006). He writes for various magazines and is also completing
a Ph.D. on the role of biography in graphic design history.
stefan sagmeister, author of
Made You Look
(reprint: Abrams,
2009) and
Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far
(Abrams,
2008), has created eye-catching graphics for clients including
the Rolling Stones and Lou Reed. Solo exhibitions of Sagmeister’s
work have been mounted all over the world. He teaches in the
MFA Design/Designer as Author + Entrepreneur department
of the School of Visual Arts, New York, and has been appointed
as the Frank Stanton Chair at the Cooper Union School of Art,
New York.
paula scher has been a principal in the New York office of
the international design consultancy Pentagram since 1991.
She began her career as an art director at CBS Records in
the 1970s and early 1980s, when her eclectic approach to
typography became highly influential. In the mid-1990s her
identity for The Public Theater fused high and low, and
her recent architectural collaborations have reimagined the
urban landscape as a dynamic environment of dimensional
graphic design.
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ellen shapiro is a graphic designer and writer based in Irvington,
New York. She is the author of two books on graphic design
and a highly graphic manual and collection of multisensory
materials for teaching children, especially children with
learning differences, how to read. A contributing editor of
Print magazine and Communication Arts magazine, she develops,
photographs, write, and assembles monthly posts for Imprint,
Print’s blog. Her writing can also be found on Salon.com and
on http://dig-it-blog.com.
adrian shaughnessy is a designer, writer, publisher, and
broadcaster. He is a senior tutor (graphic design) at the
Royal College of Art, London.
alexander tochilovsky is the curator at the Herb Lubalin Study
Center of Design and Typography at The Cooper Union. He
teaches typography at The Cooper Union School of Art and is
the co-owner of The Studio of ME/AT together with Mike Essl.
alice twemlow is the chair of the SVA MFA in Design Criticism,
New York, and a Ph.D. candidate in design history at the
Royal College of Art, London. She writes about design for
publications including Design Observer and Bloomberg, and
authored the book What Is Graphic Design For?
veronique vienne was a magazine art director in the United States
when she began to write to better analyze and understand the
work of graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers.
Today she writes books and conducts workshops on design
criticism as a creative tool.
alissa walker is a Los Angeles-based design writer focused on
finding innovative ways to increase public awareness and social
relevance for the work of designers, architects, and other
authors of visual culture. In 2010 she was named a USC
Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellow for her writing
on design and urbanism.
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