Acknowledgments

Thanks to David Rhodes, president of the School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York, and Tad Crawford, publisher of Allworth Press, for their continued support and encouragement with this long-running “Education of” series. The Education of a Graphic Designer was the first (and at the time the only) title and now it is in its third edition.

For this, I owe a debt to all the educators who so generously contributed to this and the previous editions. Their respective commitments to designers and design education makes this a valuable document for student and teacher alike.

I also am grateful to my colleagues at SVA MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur, Lita Talarico (co-chair), Esther Ro-Schofield, and Ron Callahan for everything they’ve added to our design students’ lives.

Thanks to Justin Colt and Jose Fresneda of The Collected Works for their wonderful design work.

And to Louise Fili for keeping me educated.

—Steven Heller