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Steven Heller
Co-chair, MFA Design Department, School of Visual Arts; special assistant to the president, School of Visual Arts; co-founder, MFA Design Criticism Department, School of Visual Arts; editor, Voice: AIGA Online Journal of Graphic Design; contributing editor, Print, Eye, I.D., Baseline; contributing writer, Metropolis, Grafik, Step, Visuals; columnist, The New York Times Book Review. Formerly, art director, The New York Times Book Review
Education: New York University
Books authored or co-authored: More than 100 books on graphic design, illustration and political art, including The Design Entrepreneur; Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State; Art Direction Explained, At Last!; Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned; Paul Rand; Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design; The Swastika: A Symbol Beyond Redemption?; The Education of a Graphic Designer; Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age; German Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design; French Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design; Graphic Wit: The Art of Humor in Design; Art Against War; The Art of Contemporary Caricature; Seymour Chwast: The Left Handed Designer; Innovators of American Illustration; The Graphic Design Reader; Design Humor; Cuba Style; Citizen Designer; Graphic Style; Typology; The Education of an Art Director; Euro Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars; Merz to Emigre: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the 20th Century; Becoming a Graphic Designer
Curator: "Simplicissimus, Germany's Most Influential Satire Magazine," Goethe House; "Political Art, Ten Years of Graphic Commentary," AIGA; "L'Assiette au Beurre," French Institute; "Typographic Treasures, The Work of W.A. Dwiggins," ITC Center
Awards include: Special Educators Award, Art Directors Club; AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement; National Endowment for the Arts; Society of Illustrators; Outstanding Client Award, Graphic Artist Guild; Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction; Hershel Levit Award, Pratt Institute; Masters Series Award, School of Visual Arts

Lita Talarico
Co-chair, MFA Design Department, School of Visual Arts. Formerly, Founding managing editor, American Illustration & Photography; reporter-at-large, Italian Design Graphis
Education: BA, Empire State College; MFA, School of Visual Arts
Publications include: Co-author, Design Schools Confidential; Design Entrepreneur; Design Career: A Practical Guide for Beginning Illustrators and Graphic Designers. Co-author, Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Greatest Graphic Designers; co-editor, Graphis Publication Design; associate editor, Art Against War, New York Observed
Professional experience includes: Advisor, Charrette; design competition, U.S. Port of Entry at Massena, NY; architect selection consultant: Cleveland Museum of Art, National World War II Memorial Design Competition; project director: Whitehall Ferry Terminal Design Competition; Pritzker Architecture Prize Annual Jury Meeting; project coordinator, Italian Manifesto Conference, International Design Conference in Aspen
Awards and honors include: Visiting scholar, American Academy in Rome; advisory board member emeritus, Adobe Partners by Design

Gail Anderson
Paola Antonelli
Jonathan Bell
Deborah Buck
Ken Carbone
Allan Chochinov
Brian Collins
Stephen Doyle
Louise Fili
Milton Glaser
Keith Godard
Steven Heller
Martin Kace
Maira Kalman
Jennifer Kinon
Warren Lehrer
Frank Martinez
Kevin T. O'Callaghan
Howard W. Reeves
Stefan Sagmeister
Jeff Scher
Edwin Schlossberg
Scott Stowell
Lita Talarico
Ada Whitney
 
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