Recognition

Awards

2008

  • Type Directors Club 54, Certificate of Typographic Excellence

2007

  • 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 28
  • STEP Magazine, Design 100 Competition
  • Webby Award Official Honoree
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (four awards)

2006

  • International Academy of the Visual Arts, W3 Silver Award
  • AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers (two awards)
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (two awards)
  • STEP Magazine, Design 100 Competition (three awards)

2005

  • 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 26
  • American Association of Museums
  • Graphis Interactive Design
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (two awards)
  • Type Directors Club, Juror’s Choice
  • University & College Designers Association 35th annual Design Competition

2004

  • 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 25
  • Graphis Brochures 5
  • Mohawk Show 5, Best of Category, Education
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (two awards)
  • Type Directors Club

2003

  • 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 24 (two awards)
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (two awards)

2002

  • AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers
  • I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review
  • New York Book Show, First Prize
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual

2001

  • American Corporate Identity
  • AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers (two awards)
  • Society of Publication Designers

2000

  • AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers (three awards)
  • Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, winner
  • Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design, Honorable Mention
  • Chicago Book Clinic, Award of Excellence (two awards)
  • Chicago Book Clinic, Honorable Mention
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (four awards)

1999

  • American Association of Museums, First Prize Exhibition Catalogues
  • American Association of Museums, First Prize Books
  • American Association of University Presses Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, Gold Medal
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual (two awards)
  • Stiftung Buchkunst: Die Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt (bronze medal)

1998

  • American Center for Design 100
  • AIGA/Communication Graphics AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers (three awards)
  • Chicago Book Clinic, Juror’s Choice (three awards)
  • Chicago Book Clinic, Award of Excellence (two awards)
  • Chicago Book Clinic, Honorable Mention

1997

  • AIGA/Communication Graphics (two awards)
  • American Center for Design 100 (eight awards)
  • Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual

Lectures

2007

  • University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
  • AIGA Raleigh Annual Meeting, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • AIGA Detroit Student Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
  • AIGA St. Louis Student Conference, University of Missouri at Saint Louis

2005

  • AIGA National Design Conference, Education symposium, Boston, Massachusetts
  • AIGA Chicago 50 Books/50 Covers exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
  • Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
  • HOW Design Conference, Chicago, Illinois
  • Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
  • University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

2004

  • Yale University – New Haven, Connecticut

2003

  • American Association of University Presses – Saint Louis, Missouri

2002

  • AIGA Chicago 50 Books/50 Covers exhibition – Chicago, Illinois
  • AIGA Voice Conference – Washington, DC
  • Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts – Chicago, Illinois
  • Freer Sackler Gallery – Washington, DC
  • Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, Illinois
  • International Museum Publishing Conference – Chicago, Illinois

2001

  • College Art Association – Chicago, Illinois
  • The School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, Illinois

1999

  • Western Michigan University – Kalamazoo, Michigan

1998

  • Center for Creative Studies – Detroit, Michigan

1998-99

  • University of Illinois at Chicago – Chicago, Illinois

1997-2000

  • Washington University – Saint Louis, Missouri

1996

  • American Center for Design Student Conference – Chicago, Illinois

Publications

Magazines

  • Novum Magazine – February, 2007
  • Chicago Tribune Magazine – December 19, 2004
  • Eye – Vol. 12, Spring 2003
  • Graphic Design USA – Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2004
  • I.D. Magazine – Vol. 52, No. 3, May 2005, Vol. 50, No. 2, February 2003
  • Inform – Vol. 14, No. 2, 2003, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2001
  • History of Photography – Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 2001
  • Library Journal – March 1, 1997
  • Micro Publishing News – July 1998
  • Museum News – Vol. 78, No. 4, July/August 1999
  • New Art Examiner – Vol. 24, No. 5, February 1997
  • STEP Magazine – Vol. 22, No. 2, March/April 2006, Vol. 21, No. 6, November/December 2005, Vol. 21, No. 3, May/June 2005, Vol. 20, No. 3 May/June 2004

Books

  • Young Chicago A+D Series, 2007
  • A Designer’s Research Manual: Succeed in Design by Knowing Your Clients and What they really Need, 2006
  • 365: AIGA Year in Design 25, 2005
  • Becoming a Graphic Designer, Third Edition, 2005
  • Graphic Design America 3, 2005
  • Publication Design Workbook, 2005
  • Type Rules!, 2005
  • Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, 2003
  • The Typographic Experiment, 2003
  • 365: AIGA Year in Design 22, 2002