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august heffner
Assistant creative director, Department of Graphic Design and
Marketing, Museum of Modern Art; owner, August Heffner Studio
educAtion: BFA, University of Kansas
professionAl experience includes: Senior designer,
Interbrand; senior designer, Doyle Partners
clients include: The New York Times, Diner Journal, Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum. Former clients include: Feeding America,
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Nonesuch
Records, Limited Brands, AT&T, Martha Stewart Collection
puBlicAtions include: 365: AIGA Year in Design; HOW; Print;
The Anatomy of Design; Logo Lounge; American Corporate
Identity; I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
AwArds And honors include: AIGA; Print; Type Directors Club;
Omni Award, Advertising Club of Kansas City
weBsite: www.augustheffner.com
Marvin heiferman
Curator; writer; contributing editor, Art in America; creative consultant,
Smithsonian Photography Initiative, Institution Archives
educAtion: BA, Brooklyn College; Columbia University
exhiBitions/curAtoriAl projects include: “Bill Wood’s
Business,” International Center of Photography; “Click! Photography
Changes Everything,” Smithsonian Photography Initiative; “John
Waters: Change of Life,” New Museum of Contemporary Art; “City
Art: New York’s Percent for Art Program,” Center for Architecture,
AIA New York Chapter; “Talking Pictures,” International Center
of Photography; “Image World,” Whitney Museum of American Art;
“Fame After Photography,” Museum of Modern Art; “Now is Then:
Snapshots from the Maresca Collection,” Newark Museum, NJ;
“Paradise Now,” Exit Art
Books Authored include: John Waters: Change of Life; Paradise
Now; Growing Up With Dick and Jane; Talking Pictures; I’m So
Happy; Still Life
Books edited include: Flaming Creature: The Amazing Life and
Times of Jack Smith; William Wegman’s Cinderella, Little Red
Riding Hood; Bill Wood’s Business; Now is Then: Snap-shots from
the Maresca Collection; The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; Click!
Photography Changes Everything
puBlicAtions include: The New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, London Times
Magazine, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Art in America, Artforum,
Flash Art, Afterimage, Bomb, Aperture, Interview, ARTnews
AwArds And honors include: Stock Photography Award, Type
Directors Club
elizabeth helfgott
Editorial director, Criterion Collection. Formerly, managing editor,
Film Comment; senior editor, ARTnews; managing editor, Brill’s
Content
educAtion: BA, University of Virginia; MA, New York University
puBlicAtions include: Brill’s Content, New York Sun,
Stagebill, Film Comment, ARTnews
cheryl heller
Chair, MFA Design for Social Innovation Department, School
of Visual Arts; chief executive officer, Heller Communications
educAtion: BFA, magna cum laude, Ohio Wesleyan University
professionAl experience includes: Executive creative director,
managing partner, Siegel+Gale; executive vice president, creative
director, Wells Rich Greene
clients include: Discovery Networks International, American
Express, Bayer Corporation, Mohawk Paper Mills, Ford, Louis
Boston, New Page Corporation, Reebok, Creative Edge Parties, Girl
Scouts of America
puBlicAtions include: The New York Times, HOW, Graphis,
Print, Photo District News, Communication Arts, I.D., Design
Management Journal
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; 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; Paul Rand; 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; Outstanding Client Award,
Graphic Artist Guild; National Endowment for the Arts; Society of
Illustrators; Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction; Hershel Levit
Award, Pratt Institute; Masters Series Award, School of Visual Arts
weBsite: www.hellerbooks.com
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