Susan Agre-Kippenhan is a professor in graphic design and chair of the art department at Portland State University. She has an MFA in visual communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and collaborates with her husband Mike in their studio, Compound Motion. In addition to design, her academic pursuits include linking educational objectives to community needs.
Lama Ajeenah teaches at Dar Al-Hekma University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She designs for social, environmental, and political issues to raise awareness. As self-initiated projects, she works on initiatives with a social, environmental, and political impact.
Robert Appleton was an art director at Saatchi & Saatchi in London, studied improvised music with Tony Oxley and fine art at St. Martins School of Art before becoming a photographer for BBC Television. He immigrated to the United States in 1979, opened Appleton Design in Connecticut, and in 1994 moved to New York. In 2001 he was elected to Alliance Graphique Internationale and became an associate professor at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, where he directs the graduate program in graphic design.
Leslie Atzmon received her PhD in design history at Middlesex University in London, England. She edited the collection Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design (Parlor Press 2011), and she is currently co-editing the anthology The Graphic Design Reader (Bloomsbury 2015) with Teal Triggs of the Royal College of Art and the collection Encountering Things with industrial designer Prasad Boradkar (Bloomsbury 2015). Atzmon and colleague Ryan Molloy were awarded an NEA grant to run experimental book workshops, and to edit, design, and produce the book The Open Book Project. The Open Book Project explores the history and future of the book through written essays and an exhibition catalogue. Atzmon is an editor for the new Journal of Communication Design (Bloomsbury).
Marian Bantjes is a designer, artist, writer, and teacher. She is a contributing writer for the blog Speak Up and lives near Vancouver, Canada.
Frank Baseman is the principal of Baseman Design Associates (www.basemandesign.com) and an associate professor in the graphic design communication program at Philadelphia University. He has served on the AIGA national board of directors and as chair of the steering committee for the AIGA Design Education Community of Interest.
Leslie Becker is a professor of graphic design at California College of the Arts, where she has taught typography and thesis. Her articles have been published in Print, Graphis New Talent, San Francisco Design Center Magazine, and Design Book Review. Her multidisciplinary design work includes corporate identity, print, large-scale signage systems, space planning and custom furniture, and pro bono for nonprofits.
Roy R. Behrens is a professor of art at the University of Northern Iowa, where he teaches graphic design, illustration, and design history. He edits Ballast Quarterly Review, art directs the North American Review, and is a contributing editor of Print. His most recent book is False Colors: Art, Design and Modern Camouflage (Bobolink Books, 2002).
Audrey Bennett is a college art association professional development fellow and associate professor of graphics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She holds an MFA in graphic design from Yale School of Art and a BA in studio art (with honors) from Dartmouth College.
Colin Berry is a journalist and critic based in Guerneville, California. He writes for I.D., CMYK, and KQED Public Radio, and is a contributing editor at Artweek and Print. He pens the Dragon’s Lair Blog at www.colinberry.net.
Andrew Blauvelt is design director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he provides creative leadership for the institution’s award-winning graphic identity and publications, including technology and interpretive projects for the new Walker Art Center expansion. He also curates design-related programs and exhibitions, such as “Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life” (2003–2005) as well as forthcoming shows on contemporary prefabricated architecture and the history of the American suburb.
Prasad Boradkar is an assistant professor in the School of Design at Arizona State University in Tempe. He is interested in cultural analyses of objects of design by studying not only their form and function, but also their presence in everyday life. His research goes beyond aesthetic/technological analyses and includes the social/cultural, and, in its multidisciplinary nature, it taps areas of scholarship traditionally outside the concerns of industrial design.
Steven Brower is a designer and educator. During his tenure as Creative Director at Print, the magazine garnered two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. In 2006 he designed and co-authored 2D: Visual Basics for Designers with Robin Landa and Rose Gonnella. Satchmo: The Wonderful Art and World of Louis Armstrong was published in 2009. In late 2010 two books that Brower designed and authored were published: From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin and Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperpack.
Max Bruinsma is an independent design critic, curator, and educator, and former editor of Eye magazine. His Web site, http://maxbruinsma.nl, has become a standard online sourcebook for graphic design students worldwide.
Chuck Byrne is the principal of Chuck Byrne Design in Oakland, CA, and a retired professor of design from San Jose State University. He acknowledges the importance of cultural context but values aesthetic considerations.
Heather Corcoran is assistant professor of visual communications at Washington University in St. Louis and principal of Plum Studio. Her work includes book design, information and brand systems, and articles about education and visual culture.
Liz Danzico is creative director for NPR, overseeing and guiding both the visual and user experience across NPR-branded digital platforms and content. She is chair and co-founder of the MFA in Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts. She is advisor to startups, nonprofits, global companies, and lecturer. She has written for design-minded publications, including Eye Magazine, Fortune Magazine, Interactions Magazine, and writes part of her time here, at bobulate.com.
Meredith Davis is Professor of Graphic Design and Alexander Quarles Holladay medalist for excellence in teaching at NC State University. She is a 2005 AIGA Medalist and former member of the NASAD Accreditation Commission.
Carla Diana is a designer, author, and educator who explores the impact of future technologies through hands-on experiments in product design and tangible interaction. She has designed a range of products from robots to connected home appliances and is a Lecturer in Smart Objects at the University of Pennsylvania and a Fellow at the innovation firm Smart Design where she oversees the Smart Interaction Lab.
Johanna Drucker is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. She is known for her work in visual poetry, the history of writing, and artists’ books. Her most recent book is Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity.
Ken Garland was art director of Design magazine (London) from 1956 to 1962, when he left to establish his own graphic design studio as Ken Garland and Associates. He has contributed many articles to design periodicals in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe. He is the author of “First Things First” (1964) and has lectured widely on this and other themes. He is currently visiting professor in information design at the Universidad de las Americas in Mexico.
Rob Giampietro is a designer and writer. Recent work has touched on a range of topics, including the relationship of movement and interaction, the history of visual identity and branding in the arts, and the future of the museum in the digital age. In 2013 he was a MacDowell Colony Fellow and the 2014–15 Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. From 2010–15 he was also Principal at Project Projects, where he led interactive and identity projects for clients in art, architecture, and the cultural sector.
Michael J. Golec is assistant professor of art and design in the department of art and design and the department of architecture at Iowa State University.
Sylvia Harris (1953-2011) “Sylvia Harris was a remarkable advocate of good design for real people—a Citizen Designer. She always lived her passions, so it is fitting that she named what was to be the last iteration of her professional practice Citizen Research & Design, which she envisioned as a research and planning firm designed to help public sector organizations better communicate with the people they serve.” (AIGA, 2014)
Sagi Haviv is a partner and designer at Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. Among the over 50 identity programs he has designed are the logos for the Library of Congress, CFA Institute, Harvard University Press, Conservation International, Women’s World Banking, and Armani Exchange.
Steven Heller (editor) is art director of the New York Times Book Review and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Program. The author, editor, or co-author of over ninety books on design and popular culture, he is currently writing about the branding of the totalitarian state.
Kenneth Hiebert earned a BA in social studies and the Swiss national diploma in design at the School of Design in Basel. He is founding chairman, now professor emeritus, of the graphic design program at the University of the Arts and author of Graphic Design Sources (Yale University Press, 1998).
Richard Hollis is a freelance designer and writer and a former senior lecturer at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London. He is also the author of Graphic Design: A Concise History and Swiss Graphic Design: From its Origins to an International Style 1920–1970.
Jeffrey Keedy is on the faculty of the program in graphic design at CalArts. He received an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is an educator, writer, and type designer.
Mark Kingsley is a partner at Greenberg Kingsley in New York and a contributor to the blog Speak Up.
Mike Kippenhan is a practicing designer and teaches in the design program at Portland State University. He holds an MFA in visual communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and collaborates with his wife Susan in their studio, Compound Motion. In his spare time Mike studies entomology and can often be found chasing insects.
Warren Lehrer is a writer and designer known as a pioneer of “typographic performance” and visual literature. Trained both in the fine arts and in graphic design, Lehrer is an associate professor and chair of the design program at the School of Art+Design at State University of New York–Purchase, and a graduate faculty member of the School of Visual Arts Designer As Author program. Lehrer and his wife Judith Sloan are co-directors of EarSay, a nonprofit arts organization in Queens, New York (www.earsay.org).
Danny Lewandowski is an Atlanta area freelance designer focusing on web experiences and front-end development. He is the founder and curator of paul-rand.com, the website devoted to the life, work, and teachings of Mr. Paul Rand.
William Longhauser is a graphic designer and educator living in Los Angeles. He is developing a design institute that will function as a working laboratory for experimentation through the direct experience of making—a physical process that involves thinking, drawing, and working directly with materials.
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the MFA program in graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art (mica) in Baltimore. She also is curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, where she has organized numerous exhibitions, each accompanied by a major publication, including the National Design Triennial series (2000 and 2003), “Skin: Surface, Substance + Design” (2002), “Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age” (1999), “Mixing Messages” (1996), and “Mechanical Brides: Women and Machines from Home to Office” (1993). With J. Abbott Miller she co-authored Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design. Her most recent book is Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors and Students.
Victor Margolin is professor of design history at the University of Illinois, Chicago. A founder and now co-editor of the academic journal Design Issues, he is also the author and editor of numerous books and articles on design and design history. His current project is a world history of design.
Andrea Marks is professor and graphic design program coordinator at Oregon State University. She is the producer of the film Freedom on the Fence, a documentary that chronicles the history of Polish posters from WWII through the fall of Communism and is the author of the book Writing For Visual Thinkers.
Nancy Mayer is on the faculty in art at Moravian College, a visiting critic at the University of the Arts, and a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Katherine McCoy was co-chair of design at Cranbrook Academy of Art for twenty-four years, a distinguished visiting professor at London’s Royal College of Art, and a senior lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design. She is currently a consulting professor at Kansas City Art Institute and a partner of High Ground professional education programs. Her graphic design practice and teaching have garnered her the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, an honorary PhD from Kansas City Art Institute, and election to the Alliance Graphique International. She served as national vice president of AIGA and is a past president of both the Industrial Designers Society of America and the American Center for Design. Her graphic design work includes Radical Graphics/Graphic Radicals for Chronicle Books and posters for the Hannover Worlds Fair and Cranbrook Academy of Art, including a collaborative piece with architect Daniel Libeskind.
Paul J. Nini is an associate professor in the department of design at Ohio State University, where he also serves as graduate studies chairperson and coordinator of the undergraduate visual communication design program. His writings have appeared in a variety of publications, and he has presented at numerous national and international design and education conferences.
Rick Poynor founded Eye magazine in London and edited it from 1990 to 1997. He writes a regular column for Print magazine and contributes to many publications. His books include Design Without Boundaries, Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World, No More Rules: Graphic Design and Post-modernism, and Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties. He lectures widely in Europe, the United States, and Australia, and is a former visiting professor at the Royal College of Art, London.
Chris Pullman is vice president for design at WGBH Boston, which produces about a third of the PBS prime-time schedule. His staff works in all media, including print, video, and Internet. He has taught in the graduate design program at Yale for over forty years and lectures widely to schools and professional organizations.
Elizabeth Resnick is an associate professor and the chair of the communication design department at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. She holds both a BFA and MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.
Hank Richardson is president of Portfolio Center in Atlanta. Besides being one of the country’s preeminent design educators and speakers, he is also an AIGA fellow and a founding member of AIGA/Atlanta.
Michael Rock is a founding partner and creative director at 2x4 and professor of design at the Yale University School of Art. His design criticism and the work of 2x4 have been published widely. He is the recipient of the 1999 Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome.
Katie Salen is the director of graduate studies in design and technology at Parsons School of Design. She is the co-author of Rules of Play (MIT Press, 2003) and the Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (MIT Press, 2005), as well as a contributing writer for RES magazine.
Scott Santoro is principal of Worksight, adjunct professor at Pratt Institute, and a visiting professor at New York University. He also teaches advanced design at the Cooper Union. Scott lives and works in New York City, where he and his wife and partner, Emily, make graphic design.
Nancy Skolos is an associate professor and head of the department of graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is also principal, with her husband Thomas Wedell, in Skolos-Wedell, an interdisciplinary design and photography studio.
Virginia Smith taught for over twenty-five years at City University of New York, initiating the graphic design major in Baruch College’s art department, its most popular major. Her most recent book is Forms in Modernism about the common impulse behind form creation in typography and other design arts, notably architecture.
Kerri Steinberg is an associate professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Otis College of Art and Design. For the past fifteen years she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the History of Graphic Design.
Gunnar Swanson’s graphic design has won over a hundred awards and his articles on graphic design subjects have been widely published. He has taught at the Otis College of Art and Design and the University of California at Davis, headed the graphic design program at the University of Minnesota–Duluth, and directed the multimedia program at California Lutheran University.
Ellen Mazur Thomson is the author of American Graphic Design: A Guide to the Literature and The Origins of Graphic Design in America, 1870–1920.
Alice Twemlow writes, consults, and lectures on matters relating to design and its histories. She recently directed the program for GraficEurope 2004, an international graphic design conference held in Berlin.
Véronique Vienne is a writer and educator. She began as a magazine art director in the United States, where she began to analyze and understand the work of designers. She has co-authored Art Direction Explained At Last! (Laurence King) and 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design (Laurence King), among others. She teaches workshops on how to use design criticism as a creative tool.
Thomas Wedell is a photographer and graphic designer on the adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is principal, with his wife Nancy Skolos, in Skolos-Wedell, an interdisciplinary design and photography studio.
Karen White teaches design and computer graphics at the University of Arizona. Her courses explore two-dimensional and time-based design, and cover theoretical, conceptual, and critical issues. Her current research examines the relationship between design, culture, and technology.
Judith Wilde is the creative director of Wilde Design, and professor and founder/director of the graphic design and illustration program at Kings-borough Community College. She is a graphic designer, illustrator, and painter, and is co-author of Visual Literacy.
Richard Wilde is the founder of the graphic design department at the School of Visual Arts and for the past thirty-four years has been the chair of the graphic design and advertising department. He is a principal of Wilde Design, has won over 150 professional awards, and is a laureate of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. He is author of Problems: Solutions and is co-author of Visual Literacy.
Michael Worthington teaches graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts. His Los Angeles–based practice includes writing, design, and typography for print and screen.