Faculty

Gail Anderson

Senior Art Director, SpotCo

Education
BFA, School of Visual Arts

Professional Experience
Senior art director, Rolling Stone; designer, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine

Awards and Honors
AIGA; Art Directors Club; Type Directors Club; Society of Publication Designers; Cooper-Hewitt Design Archive, Library of Congress

Gail teaches: Just Type , Thesis Consultation: Production

Paola Antonelli

Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art

Professional Experience
Editor, Abitare; contributing editor, Domus
Education: Laurea di Dottore, Polytechnico Di Milano
Books authored include: Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design, Objects of Design from the Museum of Modern Art
Publications Contributed to include: Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Design, I.D., Metropolis, Nest, Paper

Exhibitions Curated
“Achille Castiglioni: Design!,” “Humble Masterpieces,” “Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design,” “SAFE: Design Takes on Risk,” “Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands,” “Projects 66: Campana/Ingo Maurer,” “Workspheres,” Museum of Modern Art

Awards and Honors
Design Mind Award, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; senior fellow, Royal College of Art, London; honorary doctorate, Kingston University

Paola teaches: Spring Seminars

Jonathan Bell

Founder, Want Branding

Education
BA, Manchester Metropolitan University; MBA, Stern School of Business, New York University

Professional Experience
Vice President, Interbrand

Clients Include
Anguilla Tourist Board, Sprint, Zurich Financial Services, TeamEncounter, Nikon, Hankyu Hotels Group, Merrill Lynch, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Architectural Digest, Cadbury-Schweppes, Dell, Cablevision, XO Communications, Wal-Mart, Furniture.com, Enron, Duracell, Walt Disney, WingspanBank, Ziff-Davis, Nissan, MTV

Jonathan teaches: Fall Seminars

Deborah Buck

Education
Trinity College

Occupation
Owner/President, Buck House and The Gallery of Buck House

Professional Experience
Designer and illustrator of animated theme properties including Walt Disney Productions, Hanna-Barbera, United Features Syndicates, Bobs-Merrill and others. Instructor of French cuisine, Institute of Culinary Education, New York

Exhibitions
Baltimore Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Bronx Museum and many private galleries

Publications
The New York Times, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House and Garden, Metropolitan Home, House Beautiful, New York Sun, Art and Antiques Weekly

Deborah teaches: Fall Seminars

Nicholas Callaway

Founder and Chairman, Callaway Arts & Entertainment

Education
BA, cum laude, Harvard University

Professional Experience
Director of Galleries, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France

Publications
Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings; Georgia OíKeeffe: One Hundred Flowers; Sex by Madonna; Miss Spider series including Miss Spider’s Tea Party; Madonna’s series of children’s books including The English Roses, Mr. Peabody’s Apples, Yakov and the Seven Thieves, The Adventures of Abdi, and Lotsa de Casha

Nicholas teaches:

Chris Capuozzo

Creative Director, Funny Garbage

Education
School of Visual Arts

Professional Experience
Founding member, Funny Garbage

Clients
Cartoon Network, Luaka Bop, Walt Disney, IFC, Nascar, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros.

Publications
Émigre, Mass Appeal, Adobe, Eye, IMG SRC 100 by Shift Productions, Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design

Exhibitions
"Chris Capuozzo Art Show," Funny Garbage Gallery, 2001; "Street Market," Dietch Projects, 2001; National Design Triennial, 2000; National Design Museum

Chris teaches: Crossing Disciplines: Authorship on the Web

Ken Carbone

Partner, Carbone Smolan Agency

Education
MFA, University of the Arts, Philadelphia

Professional Experience
Signage and wayfinding systems developed for the Louvre; identity program for Sesame Workshop; international display system for Tiffany & Co., global prototype retail environment for HMV Record Stores; worldwide identity and display system for Christie’s

Clients
Morgan Stanley, Quick & Reilly, MoMA, High Museum, Hartford Stage, Woodruff Arts Center

Ken teaches: Thesis Consultation: Research and Writing , Thesis 1:1

Allan Chochinov

Education
MID from Pratt Institute, 1988; BA Philosophy, University of Toronto, 1984.

Professional Experience
Allan Chochinov is a partner at Core77, a New York-based design network supporting the global design community through both online and offline initiatives. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Core77.com, the widely read design website, Coroflot.com design job and portfolio site, and DesignDirectory.com design firm database. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. (Projects included work for Herman Miller, Johnson & Johnson, Federal Express, Kodak, A.C. Nielsen, Oral-B, Crunch Fitness and others.) He teaches in the graduate department at New York’s Pratt Institute, and at the School of Visual Arts.

Clients
Core77 clients include AIGA, DesignObserver, Businessweek, How Magazine, I.D. Magazine, Print Magazine, Art Directors Club, as well as myriad design firms, schools, recruiters, and manufacturers around the globe.

Awards
Named on numerous design and utility patents; awards from I.D. Magazine, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, and The One Club.

Books
Before & After Series

Allan teaches: Design in 3-Dimensions

Brian Collins

Senior partner, executive creative director, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide

Education
Parsons School of Design, Massachusetts College of Art

Clients
American Express, Motorola, AT&T, Mattel, IBM, The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Levi Strauss & Co., Jaguar, MTV, Janus Funds, Amazon.com, Walt Disney Company

Awards and Honors
AIGA; Best of Show, ID; Graphis; Communication Arts; 100 Show; Print; Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club_, Creativity.

Brian teaches: Thesis Consultation: Production , Thesis Consultation: Preparation

Stephen Doyle

Creative Director, Doyle Partners

Education
B.A., The Cooper Union

Professional Experience
Creator, Spy magazine; Art Director, M&Co; Associate Art Director, Rolling Stone magazine and Esquire.

Clients
The World Financial Center, Manhattan; Wamsutta sheets; the Edison Project, the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Grand Central Terminal, Barnes & Noble, Martha Stewart Everyday products for Kmart, Champion International, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

Awards
Augustus St. Gaudens award from his alma mater, Cooper Union

Stephen teaches: Fall Seminars

Louise Fili

Education
Skidmore College, School of Visual Arts

Occupation
Principal, Louise Fili Ltd.

Professional Experience
Senior Designer, Herb Lubalin, 1976-1978. Designer of over 2,000 book jackets as Art Director of Pantheon Books, 1976-1978.

Collections
Library of Congress, Cooper Hewitt Museum, Musee des Arts Decoratifs

Awards & Honors
Gold and Silver Medals, New York Art Directors Club and The Society of Illustrators; Premio Grafico, Bologna Book Fair; three James Beard award nominations

Publications
Co-author of Italian Art Deco, Dutch Moderne, Streamline, Cover Story, British Modern, Deco Espana, German Modern, French Modern, and Typology published by Chronicle Books.

Louise teaches: Fall Seminars

Milton Glaser

President and Creative Director, Milton Glaser, Inc.

Board member, School of Visual Arts; trustee, Cooper Union. Formerly, co-founder, president, Push Pin Studios; co-founder, president, creative director, New York magazine; vice president, co-chair, AIGA; president, International Design Conference, Aspen

Education
Cooper Union; Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy

One-person Exhibitions
Lincoln Center Gallery; Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union; Suntory Museum, Japan; Nuages Gallery, Italy; Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University; Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Boston. European traveling exhibition: Barcelona, Venice, Bologna and Paris

Environmental and industrial design clients
Alessi, Milan; Rainbow Room. Over 300 posters for clients, including Carnegie Hall, World Health Organization, Lincoln Center

Awards and Honors
Hall of Fame, Art Directors Club; Illustrators Hall of Fame, Society of Illustrators; Gold Medal, Society of Illustrators; Fulbright Scholarship; honorary fellow, Society of Arts, England; St. Gaudens Medal, Cooper Union; Masters Series Award, School of Visual Arts. Honorary doctorates: Moore College of Art; Philadelphia Museum School; School of Visual Arts; Minneapolis Institute of Fine Art; Queens College; Royal College of Art, London.

Milton teaches: Design and Intentions

Dorothy Twining Globus

Curator of exhibitions, Museum of Arts and Design

Education
BA, magna cum laude, Swarthmore College

Professional Experience
Director, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology; curator of exhibitions, Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design

Curatorial Works
"Weaving Tradition: Carol Cassidy and Woven Silks of Laos"; "Fleur on Flair: A Magazine and its Legacy"; "Hello Again: Recycling for the Real World"; "Judith Leiber, The Artful Handling"; "Moon Over Pearls, Gene Moore’s Tiffany Windows and Beyond"; "From Printed Line to Woven Flower, Exploring Textile Design"; "Dreams on Paper: Home Sewing in America"; "Shoes, A Lexicon of Style"; "The Catalan Spirit: Gaudí and his Contemporaries"; "L’Art de Vivre: Decorative Arts and Design in France 1789-1989"; "The Intimate World of Alexander Calder"; "The Power of Maps"

Dorothy Twining teaches: Thesis Consultation: Exhibition

Keith Godard

Designer/Artist

Education
BFA, London College of Printing a Graphic Art; MFA, Yale University School of Art and Architecture

Professional Experience
Designer of books, posters, exhibitions; teaches at FIT; taught at Cooper Union, University of the Arts, RISD and Yale

Clients
United Nations, MTA, Bank of America, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, University of Virginia, Getty Museum

Publications
Make Your Own Museum, Signs and Spaces, Baseline; 2 full length articles in IDEA magazine, Japan

Awards & Honors
Winner, World’s Most Memorable Poster 1999/2000; Bronze medal from BRNO 1970/1972; Czechoslovakia International Graphic Design Exhibit; have been included in this years Warsaw Poster Biennale

Exhibitions & Collections
Posters in MoMA Collection; work shown in the Modern Poster, MoMA 1988; work in collection of Library of Congress, National Archives, The Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, the Biblotheque National de France

Keith teaches: Paul Rand Memorial Lecture Series, Part 1

Steven Heller

Co-Chair SVA MFA Design, Author, and Art Director

Steve’s full bio

Steven teaches: Paul Rand Memorial Lecture Series, Part 2

Martin Kace

Founder and CEO, Bakunin Brothers; owner, co-founder, Area Inc.

Education
BA, Hebrew University; MA, MEd, Columbia University; New York University

Professional Experience
CEO, Joe Boxer Corporation; CEO, Phat Fashions LLC; videographer, Parliamentarians of Global Action; owner, CEO, Overseas Marketing Ltd.; owner, CEO, Kavec Holdings, Ltd.

Martin teaches: Thesis Introduction , Thesis Consultation: Research and Writing

Maira Kalman

Author, Illustrator

Education
New York University

Professional Experience
CEO, Vice president and secretary, M&Co; art associate, National Lampoon

Clients
Museum of Modern Art, Kate Spade, Ralph Pucci, Mark Morris Dance Group, Isaac Mizrahi, Vitra, The New Yorker, The New York Times

Books
Max Makes a Million; Fireboat; What Pete Ate from A-Z; FASHION with Tibor Kalman

Exhibitions
Ginza Gallery, Tokyo; Children’s Museum of Manhattan; Julie Saul Gallery; Armory Show; Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA

Maira teaches: New York Stories

Jennifer Kinon

Senior Designer, Pentagram

Education
MFA, School of Visual Arts; BA, BFA, University of Michigan

Professional Experience
Design director, NYC2012, New York City’s Bid Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games; Art director, Graphis

Jennifer teaches: Thesis Consultation: Preparation , Thesis Introduction

Warren Lehrer

Designer, Typographer, Author, Performer

Education
BA, Queens College; MFA, Yale University

Books and Plays authored and designed
Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America; The Portrait Series: a quartet of men: Brother Blue, Charlie, Nicky D. from L.I.C., Claude; FRENCH FRIES; versations; I mean you know; GRRRHHH: a study of social patterns; TYPE DREAMS; A Tattle Tale; Denial of the Fittest; The Whole K’ Cuffin World; Social Security; the life and times of Eugene Soloman; The Search for IT and Other Pronouns

Collections
Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Jean Brown Archive; Franklin Furnace Archive; Yale Art of the Book Room; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Sackner Collection

Awards and Honors
National Endowment of the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; New York State Foundation for the Arts; Ford Foundation; Puffin Foundation; AIGA; Prix Ars Electronica; Type Directors Club; Rockefellers Foundation; Innovative Use of Archives Award; NY Book Best of the Best Award; Media That Matters Award

Links
www.WarrenLehrer.com

Warren teaches: Writing and Designing the Visual Book

Frank Martinez

Trademark attorney, The Martinez Group

Education
BFA, Pratt Institute; JD, Hofstra University

Professional Experience
Design patent examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office; design production director, The Schechter Group; design production director, Landor Associates

Publications
regular contributor, ID, Print

Frank teaches: Intellectual Property and the Law

Dave Mowers

Dave teaches: Thesis 1:1

Kevin T. O'Callaghan

Chair, 3-D design program, Advertising and Graphic Design department, School of Visual Arts; 3-D designer and illustrator; principal, O’Callaghan & Co—Art for the Film Industry

Education
BFA, School of Visual Arts

Clients
MTV Networks, Toyota, Warner Brothers Records, A&E Networks, The History Channel, ABC Pictures

Publications
People, US, Graphis, Playboy, New York, New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times

Curatorial Work
"Skeleton," Whitney Museum of American Art; "What Makes Them Tick?" Art Directors Club; "YUGO Next," traveling exhibition; "The Turn of the Century: A Carousel," traveling exhibition to Grand Central Terminal, Union Station, Washington DC, and Union Station, Chicago

Kevin T. teaches: 3D Product Reality

Howard W. Reeves

Vice-president and publisher, children’s books, calendars and stationery, Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc.; senior editor, general publishing, Harry N. Abrams Publishers, Inc.

Education
Wake Forest University

Professional Experience
Editorial staff, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.; Buena Vista Publishing

Awards and honors for books edited
Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Society of Illustrators gold and silver medals, The New York Times Best Illustrated, The Boston Globe Horn Book Award, Art Directors Club, AIGA 50 Best Books, ALA Notable Books, Parenting Reading Magic Award, Parent’s Choice Silver Medal, the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval, Michael L. Printz Honor Book

Howard W. teaches: The Book: From Idea To Package To Consumer

Stefan Sagmeister

Graphic designer, founder, Sagmeister Inc.

Education
MS, Pratt Institute; MFA, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Professional Experience
M&Co; creative director, Leo Burnett Hong Kong; art director, Sagmeister Graphics; designer, Schauspielhaus Vienna; designer, ETC., Vienna

Clients
Rolling Stone, David Byrne, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, Pat Metheny, Muir Conelius Moore, Parham Santana

Publications
The New York Times, Rolling Stone

Television Credits
Entertainment Weekly, The Tonight Show with David Letterman, Good Morning America

Awards & Honors
Over 200 design awards, including: The One Show; Art Directors Club; Communication Arts; D&AD; Grand Prix, Moscow Art Directors Club Hall of Fame

Stefan teaches: Can Design Touch Someone's Heart

Jeff Scher

Experimental Filmmaker

Education
BA, Bard College; American Film Institute

Films Include
Whiplash, a film by Warren Sonbert, completed after the filmmaker’s death; Yours; Trigger Happy; Bang Bang; Turkish Traffic; Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

Collections
Museum of Modern Art, Academy Film Archives, Pacific Film Archives

Group Exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum

Solo Exhibitions
Jeff Scher : Milk of Amnesia at Maya Stebdhal gallery

Jeff teaches: Paul Rand Memorial Lecture Series, Part 3

Edwin Schlossberg

Education
Ph.D. in Science and Literature, Columbia University

Occupation
President, ESI Design

Professional Experience
Designer for interactive, participatory experiences beginning in 1977 with the nation’s first hands-on learning environment for the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Publishes books frequently on the subject of interactive design including Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century. Served on the Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation and is a member of the Board of Directors of New York City Outward Bound and the John F. Kennedy Library.

Edwin teaches: Spring Seminars

Scott Stowell

Proprietor, Open

Education
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

Professional Experience
Art director, Colors magazine; senior designer, M&Co

Clients
American Museum of Moving Image, art:21, Bravo, EarthAction, MTV, The Nation, Nick at Nite, PBS, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Trio, Wieden + Kennedy

Awards & Honors
American Center for Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association, Society of Publication Designers, Tokyo Type Directors’ Club, Type Directors Club

Publications
Creative Review (UK), Critique, Communication Arts, Eye (UK), Grafik (UK), How, IdN (Hong Kong), I.D., Metropolis, +81 (Japan), Print, STEP Inside Design

Scott teaches: Explaining Yourself

Lita Talarico

Co-Chair SVA MFA Design, Author, and Design Consultant

Lita’s full bio

Lita teaches: Thesis 1:1 , Spring Seminars , Thesis Consultation: Research and Writing

Veronique Vienne

Writer; creative director; president, Young Vienne, Inc.

Education
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Professional Experience
Contributing editor, House & Garden; creative director, Cato Gobe; director of business development, Yves Saint Laurent Parfums, NY; founding art director, Parenting; founding editorial director, Mode; art director, Interiors, Image, Self

Author
The Art of Doing Nothing; The Art of Imperfection; The Art of Growing Up; The Art of Expecting; Something to be Desired, a Collection of Essays on Design; Chip Kidd, a Monograph

Books Edited & Co-edited
Fresh Dialogue Three; Fresh Dialogue Four; New Voices in Graphic Design; Citizen Designer; Perspectives on Design Responsibility

Publications
Martha Stewart Living, Town & Country, House & Garden, InStyle, Mirabella, Redbook, Spa Finder, Metropolis, Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, Eye, American Photo, AIGA Journal

Veronique teaches: Introduction to Design Criticism

Ada Whitney

Co-Founder and Creative Director, Beehive

Education
Beloit College
London College of Art

Professional Experience
Principal and creative director, Beehive
Director and designer, Broadway Video.

Clients:
HBO, Showtime, ABC, ESPN, HGTV, PBS, Disney, Nickelodeon, MTV, We, NBC, Comedy Central, Spike, Time Warner Cable, Quicksilver, Sundance, TNT, AMC

Exhibitions:
Art, Installation & Mixed Media exhibitions: PS122, Executive Gallery, PPOW, Hallwalls, Civilian Warfare, PS1, AIR, Avant-Garde Festival

Publications:
Res Magazine, Communication Arts, Apple Website, Shoot, Millimeter, Film & Video

Awards:
Over 30 BDA and Promax Awards, Emmy Nominee, Communication Arts, Print, Art Directors Club, Creativity, Type Directors Club, International Monitor Gold

Ada teaches: Thesis Consultation: Exhibition