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

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

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

Scott Dadich

Education
BFA, Texas Tech University

Occupation
Vice President of Digital Magazine Development, Conde Nast

Professional Experience
Creative Director, WIRED; Creative Director, Texas Monthly

Awards
National Magazine Award for Design, Society of Publication Designers Magazine of the Year, Art Directors Club, American Photography, The Society of Illustrators, Type Directors Club

Scott teaches:

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

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

Linda Holliday

Education
BFA, University of Michigan; MBA, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Occupation
Media, internet and marketing serial-entrepreneur

Professional Experience
Advisor and Angel investor, New York Angels; Founder and President of Digitas Health, formally Medical Broadcasting Company

Clients Include
Johnson and Johnson, ePharmaceuticals, Bodysense.

Linda teaches:

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

Founding Partner and Designer, OCD | The Original Champions of Design

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

Professional Experience
Senior Designer, Pentagram
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

Leland M. Maschmeyer

Education
BA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Occupation
Creative Director, Partner of COLLINS

Professional Experience
Senior Strategist, McKinney & Silver

Clients Include
Coca-Cola, American Express, Microsoft, Barclaycard, NBC, CNN, EOS, The One Club’s Creative Week, Lenovo, Manpower, Motts, New York Public Library, Canoe Ventures

Awards
Jay Chiat, Type Directors Club, Campaign, Communication Arts, Print, Effie, MIXX, American Association of Advertising Agencies

Leland M. teaches:

Wyatt Mitchell

Education
BS, Ohio State University

Occupation
Design Director, Editorial Development at Conde Nast

Professional Experience
Design Director, WIRED

Awards
American Society of Magazine Editors, Society of Publication Designers, Print Magazine, Communication Arts

Wyatt teaches:

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

Andrew Pratt

Creative Director, Funny Garbage

Education
BFA, Rochester Institute of Technology; AAS, Rochester Institute of Technology

Clients
Cartoon Network, CBS Consumer Group, Crayola, HarperCollins Publishers, MTV Networks, National Geographic Kids, Smithsonian Institution, Teen Nick, Turner, Wenner Media

Awards and Honors
Emmy Award , Peoples Voice and Webby Awards, Gold and Silver Communicator Awards, Gold and Silver Interactive Awards, Gold Mark Award, Gold Media Award Nominee, Print Regional Design Annual

Andrew teaches: Crossing Disciplines: Authoring a Digital Experience

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