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The One Club Names 2024 Hall Of Fame Inductees
The One Club proudly announces the creative legends selected as 2024 inductees into the prestigious Creative Hall of Fame. The HOF has a rich heritage of honoring the lifetime achievements in all forms of advertising and design, starting with the induction of Leo Burnett in 1961.
Isbara To Succeed Tenny At SAIC
Jiseon Lee Isbara currently serves as provost of Otis College of Art and Design. She will follow Elissa Tenny as president in the 158-year history of School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
Amazon Joins Diversify By Design Coalition
Amazon joins the Diversify by Design (DxD) coalition to help launch Design=, a collaborative initiative to increase access to design for historically excluded youth.
Reimagining Design Education
Duke Greenhill of Savannah College of Art & Design on how the institution is redefining virtual learning and its students are reimagining design during the global pandemic.
A Day In The Life Of An Academy of Art University Film Student
A glimpse into what it is like to be a student at The Academy of Art University and its School of Motion Pictures & Television.
UNO Creates Dynamic Brand For Smithsonian Latino Center
UNO Branding (UNO) is proud to announce the new brand identity of The Smithsonian Latino Center, (SLC) a center that promotes Latino presence within the Smithsonian.
Anthony Wood: Design Showdown Between Fiverr vs. Professionals
Anthony Wood argues that, yes, one can get graphic design on the cheap; but, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
The GDUSA Podcast #3: Megan Flood of Marine Lane
Gordon talks with Megan Flood of boutique design studio Marine Lane about design school, bipartisan politics and her love of Serendipity ice cream.
Educators to Watch
Design education and educators have more influence than ever on the fast-changing shape of design, media and culture. This is certainly true of the 2018 group…
Nikki Juen
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Nikki Juen is an artist, designer, and educator interested in the spaces where these practices overlap. She is Co-Chair of the MFA in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts and an instructor in the Division of Experimental and Foundation Studies at Rhode Island School of Design. In Juen’s […]
Cheryl Heller
MFA DESIGN FOR SOCIAL INNOVATIONSCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS (SVA) Cheryl Heller is the Founding Chair of the MFA Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts. Since its launch in 2014, DSI at SVA has attracted students from twenty-eight countries and graduated over one hundred alums now working as change leaders in industry, […]
Frank Baseman
KANBAR COLLEGE OF DESIGN, ENGINEERING & COMMERCE | JEFFERSON Frank Baseman is the Director of, and Professor in, the Graphic Design Communication program at Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), where he has taught since 1998. In 2007, he was awarded Philadelphia University’s Innovation in Teaching Award. Work produced by his students has been […]
Jessica Barry
SCHOOL OF ADVERTISING ART (SAA) Jessica Barry is a 1997 graduate of the School of Advertising Art (SAA), holds a BA in management from Antioch University Midwest, and has been recognized as an award-winning educator and creative director. Jessica has served as President of SAA since 2007, overseeing all operations of the college and, in […]
Thomas McNulty
ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY Thomas McNulty has served as a brand and package design consultant for over 30 years in United States and in Europe, and has been teaching at Academy of Art University in San Francisco since 1991. He has worked with various industry powerhouses over the course of his career, including renowned designer […]
Dermot Mac Cormack
TYLER SCHOOL OF DESIGN Dermot Mac Cormack is an educator, designer, and writer, living in Philadelphia. After graduating from The National College of Art & Design in Ireland, he worked at Kilkenny Design Workshops before working in various design studios in Dublin. In the mid-1980’s he moved to Philadelphia where he was hired as a […]
Anthony Wood
SHILLINGTON EDUCATION Anthony Wood is Global Managing Director of Shillington Education, a fast-paced, immersive design school with campuses in New York, London, Manchester, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. He is an award-winning designer and educator — originally from Sydney, via London and currently based in New York — who loves design for its ability to change […]
Carole Mauge-Lewis
COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY Carole Maugé-Lewis, tenured professor in the College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University, boasts an impressive record of teaching excellence. For the past 23 years she has been the driving force in developing the Graphic Communication concentration in the School of Art and Design at Kennesaw […]
Robert Finkel
AUBURN UNIVERSITY Robert Finkel was born and raised in Birmingham AL He attended Rhodes College in Memphis TN where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology concentrating in cultural anthropology and sociological theory. He is a graduate of the Portfolio Center and in 2011 received a Master of Fine Arts from the […]
Shushi Yoshinaga
ANTOINETTE WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA, ARTS & DESIGNDREXEL UNIVERSITY A native of Hirosaki, Japan, Shushi studied Graphic Design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel. Her ongoing design research projects — visual translation of cultural ideas — focuses on gesture, form, and type compositions and is based on […]
Jay Adams
ROBERTSON SCHOOL OF MEDIA AND CULTURE VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY Jay Adams is an Assistant Professor in advertising at the Robertson School of Media and Culture at VCU. He currently teaches portfolio and campaigns courses with heavy emphasis on design and art direction and has led student teams to win numerous AAF ADDY awards on the […]
Pamela S. Barby
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN Pam Barby is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Graphic Design Department at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. Influenced by her grandfather, a painter in Lancaster PA, Pam developed a love for art and design at a young age. Expanding her influences and passion for design began […]
2017 GDUSA Educators to Watch
Design education and educators have more influence than ever on the fast-changing shape of design, media and culture. In this spirit, GDUSA presents its “2017 Educators To Watch.”
Richard Wilde
Richard has been the founding Chair of the BFA Design Department at the School of Visual Arts as well as Chair of the BFA Advertising Department.
Mary Scott
Mary Scott recently became Director Emeritus of Academy of Art University’s School of Graphic Design.
Phil Hamlett
Phil Hamlett is the Director of the School of Graphic Design at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, designer, and Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt in New York City.
Jason Fox
Jason Fox began his teaching career as a part-time professor in 2000 while working as a creative manager and illustrator in the dental industry.
Keetra Dixon
Keetra Dean Dixon is a designer whose work inhabits speculative terrain, leveraging emergent technologies and process-focused making.
Matthew Flick
Matthew Flick serves as vice president of education, creative director, and instructor at the School of Advertising Art.
Cindy Buckley Koren
Cindy Buckley Koren has worked with clients like AT&T, Global Finance and Runner’s World Magazine and lives in Upstate NY in order to teach and raise her family.
Cate Roman
Cate Roman is an accomplished educator, designer, and storyteller whose work in education and for private clients spans more than 20 years.
Eric Karnes
The son of a painter and a special-education teacher, Eric grew up on the edge of lovely Baltimore MD.
Courtney Hurst-Windham
Courtney Hurst-Windham is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Industrial + Graphic Design at Auburn University.
James Goggin
James Goggin is a graphic designer and educator from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Auckland, Arnhem, and Chicago.
Allan Espiritu
Allan Espiritu, founder of GDLOFT PHL, is a Philadelphia-based, award-winning graphic designer and educator.
Renee Colette Stevens
Renee Stevens is an award-winning motion and interactive designer, educator, and public speaker currently living in Syracuse, NY.
Meaghan A. Dee
Meaghan A. Dee is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Visual Communication Design Program at Virginia Tech.
Jennie Thwing
Jennie Thwing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Communications at Farmingdale State College.
Ellen DeGeneres Invites ‘Everybody Design Now’
Ellen DeGeneres, an advocate of the value of design, helps Cooper-Hewitt education program with a large matching grant.