Kurt Andersen
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Kurt Andersen, host of WNYC and Public Radio International's popular "Studio 360" program began his career in journalism at Time, where he was an award-winning writer on national affairs and criminal justice, and then for eight years the magazine's architecture and design critic. Returning to Time in 1993 as editor-at-large, he wrote a weekly column on entertainment and media, and from 1996 through 1999 he was a cultural columnist for The New Yorker. His journalism and essays have also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Architectural Record, among other publications.

Andersen was a co-founder of Inside.com, and editor-in-chief of both New York and Spy magazines, the latter of which he co-founded.

He is also the author of The Real Thing, a book of humorous essays. He has produced prime-time network television programs and pilots for NBC and ABC, and co-authored Loose Lips, an off-Broadway theatrical revue that had long runs in New York and Los Angeles.

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Milton Glaser
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To many, Milton Glaser is the embodiment of American graphic design. His presence and impact on the profession internationally is formidable. Immensely creative and articulate, he is a modern renaissance man -- one of a rare breed of intellectual designer-illustrators, who brings a depth of understanding and conceptual thinking, combined with a diverse richness of visual language, to his highly inventive and individualistic work. *

Born in 1929, Milton Glaser was educated at the High School of Music and Art and the Cooper Union art school in New York and, via a Fulbright Scholarship, the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy. He co-founded the revolutionary Pushpin Studios in 1954, founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968, established Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and teamed with Walter Bernard in 1983 to form the publication design firm WBMG .Throughout his career, Glaser has been a prolific creator of posters and prints. His artwork has been featured in exhibits worldwide , including one-man shows at both the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of many museums. Glaser also is a renowned graphic and architectural designer with a body of work ranging from the iconic logo to complete graphic and decorative programs for the restaurants in the World Trade Center in New York. Glaser is an influential figure in both the design and education communities and has contributed essays and granted interviews extensively on design.

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* Excerpted from CSD, August/September, 1999 -- Milton Glaser: Always One Jump Ahead by Patrick Argent

Marybeth Peters
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Marybeth Peters has served as the United States Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994. From 1983-1994 she held the position of Policy Planning Advisor to the Register. She has also served as Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining and the Information and Reference divisions. A frequent speaker on copyright issues, Ms. Peters is the author of The General Guide to the Copyright Act of 1976.

Ms. Peters received her undergraduate degree from Rhode Island College and her law degree, with honors, from The George Washington University Law Center. She is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia.

Ms. Peters is an active member of The Copyright Society of the U.S.A. She is also a member of the Intellectual Property Section of the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, including the Computer Law Section, the DC Computer Law Forum, and the Computer Law Association, where she is a member of the board of directors.

Ms. Peters has served as a lecturer in the Communications Law Institute of The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law and as adjunct professor of copyright law at The University of Miami School of Law and at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Ms. Peters served as a consultant on copyright law to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1989-1990.

Marshall Arisman

The paintings and drawings of Marshall Arisman have been widely exhibited both internationally and nationally, and his work may be seen in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, as well as in many private and corporate collections.

His original graphic essay Heaven Departed, in which paintings and drawings describe the emotional and spiritual impact of nuclear was on society, was published in book form by Vision Publishers (Tokyo, 1988).

Chairman of the M.F.A. degree program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Arisman was the first American invited to exhibit in mainland China. His series, Sacred Monkeys, appeared at the Guang Dong Museum of Art in April 1999.

He is the subject of a full-length documentary film directed by Tony Silver titled "Facing the Audience, The Arts of Marshall Arisman." The film will be shown at the 2002 Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Dana Arnett
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Dana Arnett is a principal of the internationally recognized firm of VSA Partners, headquartered in Chicago. Arnett, along with his six partners, leads a group of 50 associates in the creation of design programs, film projects, interactive initiatives and brand marketing solutions for a diverse roster of clients, including: Harley-Davidson, IBM, Brunswick, Coca-Cola, Handspring, Chronicle Books, and AOL/TimeWarner.

Over the course of his 18 years in the field, Dana and the firm have been globally recognized by over 60 competitions and designations including; Communication Arts, AIGA, Graphis, The Type Directors Club, The American and British Art Director Clubs, ID, The LA Film Festival, theAR100 and The American Marketing Association. Arnett was a 1999 inductee into the Alliance Graphic International, and holds the honor of being named to the ID40, who has cited him as one of the 40 most important people shaping design internationally. He is currently a member of the AIGA National Board.

A frequent lecturer and visiting professor, Arnett is also active in helping to shape the role of design in society through contributing publishing endeavors, conference chairmanships, and foundation activities.

Gary Baseman
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Baseman is creator and executive producer of the new critically-acclaimed animated television show for ABC/Disney "Teacher's Pet." His artwork continues to muck up the pages of most major publications. Mr. Baseman best describes his work as "where the line between genius and stupidity has been smudged beyond recognition." His mark appears in magazines and newspapers such as Time, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, G.Q., Forbes, Blab, Reader's Digest, and The Atlantic Monthly. Even the corporate world has been smeared by Baseman's drawings. The range of international corporate clients include Nike, Gatorade, Celebrity Cruises, Mercedes-Benz, Labatt, Thomas Cook, and Capitol Records. Baseman's images also create the identity of the best-selling game "Cranium." He was born and is back in Hollywood, after doing a ten-year stint in NYC.

Tim Biskup
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Southern California artist Tim Biskup is probably painting while you're reading this. If not, he's designing a tee shirt, fabric pattern, book or a toy.

Tim grew up on a blend of Disneyland, "Big Daddy" Roth, classic cartoons & Godzilla movies. He spent his teen years in the anarchy of punk rock & the weirdness of the Residents. He's matured with the beauty of 50's and 60's modern designers like James Flora & Mary Blair. These influences, as well as his years of experience in animation have pushed him towards his manic, spontaneous style.

He's shown his art in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Tokyo, Kyoto and Portland. Meanwhile, he's releasing new goods in his Gama-Go clothing & gift line. He's designed and published a deck of playing cards called "The Lucky Stack". He's working on toy designs for production in the US and Japan. He's working with House Industries to produce a set of computer fonts. He's just finished his "100 Paintings" series & has embarked on a new series of 500 small paintings called "The Jackson 500".

Tim collaborated with Mark Ryden & Gary Baseman to produce the, now infamous, "Hello" paintings series & print portfolio. Baseman & Biskup have also completed a new series of "interchangeable" paintings called "Modular Populous". The result is an interactive gallery show & limited edition postcard set.

If that's not enough, he and his wife (fellow artist Seonna Hong) have just produced their first human being, a little girl named Tigerlily Mina Biskup.

Cathie Bleck
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For over twenty years Cathie Bleck has produced work for magazines and newspapers such as National Geographic Adventure, Martha Stewart Living, Time, Atlantic, and the New York Times. One of her recent projects is illustrating the icon headers for the Wall St. Journal redesign. Her international corporate clients include Coopers and Lybrand, AT&T, A&M Records, Warner Bros. Records, Federal Express, and Habitat for Humanity. Cathie has illustrated a number of books including Balto by Margaret Davidson. Her work has appeared in a number of design and illustration annuals; in a Communication Arts feature article in Sept/Oct 1999, as well as American lllustration, Society of Illustrators, Print, Step inside Design, and Graphis. She is cofounder of N.O.I.S., Northern Ohio Illustrators Society, served on the past two Illustration Conference boards and currently serves as President this year. She resides in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband George Muschler and three children.

Steve Brodner
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Steve Brodner has been a caricaturist, satyric and humorous illustrator, documentary artist and filmmaker for over 25 years. His work has appeared in most major magazines in the US. He has covered more than 40 stories as a graphic journalist including profiles of Bob Dole, George W. Bush, climbing Mt. Fuji and 8 political conventions. In 2000 he received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. His short documentary film, "September, 2001" was shown in connection with the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. He is currently making a film about a man exonerated while on Death Row.

Terry Brown

Terry Brown has been director of the Society of Illustrators of New York since 1982 and on their staff since 1974. The Society has advanced considerably in its programs of scholarships, museum activities, publishing and public access during that time span. Terry has taught at the School of Visual Arts the past six years presenting a mix of art history, American history and current industry concerns. He has lectured at colleges and museums nationwide and contributed to many books on the subject of American illustration. He is an advisor to the National Museum of American Illustration (Newport, RI) and the National Art Museum of Sport (Indianapolis, IN).

Marc Burckhardt
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A graduate of Art Center College of Design, Marc Burckhardt's clients include Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Vanguard Records, Young & Rubicam, Pentagram and Random House. He has received awards from the New York Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, STEP, the American Advertising Federation and the Los Angeles Society of Illustrators. Previously an instructor at New York's School of Visual Arts, he now teaches illustration at Texas State University, near his home in Austin, Texas. Marc is past president of the Illustration Conference.

Frederick Carlson

Frederick H. Carlson is one of the most well-known artist/illustrators in the mid-Atlantic region. No venue is too large or too small for his incisively drawn and lucidly painted pieces. He has executed room-sized murals and had his work appear on over 350 CD, cassette, and LP covers. Carlson, a 1977 Carnegie-Mellon University alumnus, recently celebrated his 23rd year as a free-lancer. He has exhibited at the Southern Alleghenies Museum, the New York Society of Illustrators, Gallery G, Cegep-St. Foy (Quebec), Dubendorf (Switzerland), the Manchester Craftsmens Guild, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and at Daystar/One World Gallery.

His recent illustration clientele has included Yankee Magazine, Sony Music, Universal Music, AMERICA Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Elsevier Publishing, USWA, Dartmouth College, Cable In The Classroom, Ladbrokes, Koppers Industries, the Smithsonian/National Zoo and many other private and corporate commissions.

Fred was the National President of the Graphic Artists Guild from 1991-1993, the first non-NYC based artist to be so elected. He served on the Guild's Executive Committee for 8 years. He taught at Carnegie-Mellon University in the art department as an Adjunct Professor of Illustration from 1981-1994. He has written extensively and has had letters and articles published in national publications such as The Artist Magazine, Communication Arts, GAG News, Artists Market, and his work was featured in ART DIRECTION.

Fred has served the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators (PSI) as President since early 2001, after previously serving as Treasurer. He lives in Monroeville, PA with his wife of 20 years, 2 teen-aged children with unfortunate art talent, one chameleon, 3 cats, and many stringed instruments

Ron Chan
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Ron Chan has been a prominent illustrator in the digital arts field since the invention of the term. In 1987, he was one of the first artists to ever utilize a ground breaking drawing application called Picasso, later to be called Adobe Illustrator. Ron's work has appeared internationally and includes such clients as Strathmore Papers, Boise Cascade, American Express, Business Week, United States Olympic Committee, The Blue Note Tokyo, The New York Times, CompUSA and the Wall Street Journal. Numerous books and publications have also featured his work. Ron works out of his home in Mill Valley, CA, and spends a lot of time arguing on the phone with fellow illustrator Bud Peen about the San Francisco Giants.

Seymour Chwast
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As co-founder of Push Pin Studios, and currently director of the Pushpin Group, Seymour Chwast reintroduced graphic styles and transformed them into a contemporary vocabulary. His designs and illustrations have been used in advertising, animated films, and editorial, corporate, and environmental graphics. He has created over 100 posters and has designed and illustrated more than thirty children's books. His work has been the subject of three books including, Seymour Chwast: The Left Handed Designer (Abrams, 1985). Many museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Library of Congress (Washington D.C.) and the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), have collected his posters. He has lectured and exhibited worldwide and is in the Art Directors Hall of Fame. He is the recipient of the 1985 Medal from the American Institute of Graphic Artist.

Paul Cohen

Paul is the President of Creatif Licensing. Creatif brings to us a prominent reputation in the industry. The company was created in 1975 and has successfully developed diverse licenses for the domestic and international markets. Mary Engelbreits' licensing program was launched by Creatif, as were the Moppets. Currently, they represent the prestigious Roger la Borde Collection, renown folk artist Carol Endres, Linda Maron and Jane Kitching. The principles that have made his company successful are based on strong relationships, trust and individual attention to their artist's needs.

Paul has been a keynote speaker on Licensing at the International Art Expo, and has participated on various panels at the Licensing Show. He is a contributor to the Licensing Royalty Rate publication and was interviewed on American Business Review with Morley Safer. Creatif is a charter member of LIMA the licensing organization.

Allan Comport
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Allan Comport is now in his twentieth year as an artist's representative. For the past five years he has been a part of Shannon Associates representing over 100 artists throughout the world. He holds a B.A. in Education from Heidelberg College and a M.A. in pastoral counseling from Trinity Lutheran Seminary. Allan has served on the faculty of the Ringling School of Art & Design and currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is a frequent speaker on the subject of the business of illustration and a member of the Illustrator's Club of Washington, Maryland and Virginia. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland with his illustrator/wife Sally Wern Comport and their two daughters.

David Cowles
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I was born in Rochester, N.Y. on November 3, 1961, the last of six children. My art career began at birth, it being the family business. My father, Hobart Cowles, was a Professor of Ceramics at Rochester Institute of Technology, and my mother, Barbara Cowles, was manager of Shop One, a Rochester gift shop heavy on the work of local craftsmen. After graduating from Victor Central in 1979, I audited classes at the local colleges for a year or so, but my actual education began when I landed a job at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester in '83. I began my freelance career two years later, and left the paper to work freelance full-time in '91.

My work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Vibe, Time, Newsweek, Playboy, People, The Village Voice, Money, Worth, Fortune, Fast Company, Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair, among others.

My first animated short "Superfunk & Freaky-Dee" won the Grand Jury Prize for animation in New York Independent Film & Video Festival 2000.

I have two wonderful children, Clayton and Alison, and a lovely ex-wife, Laura.

Susan and Allen Crawford
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After working for several years as graphic designers, Susan and Allen Crawford co-founded Plankton Art Co. in 1997 to broaden the scope of their work, which has included painting, illustration, graphic design, installation art, typeface design, music, assemblage, collage, animation, writing and video/performance art.

Plankton's clients include Newsweek, National Geographic, Hasbro, Chronicle Books, YM, Disney, Washington Post, Mambo, The American Museum of Natural History and the band Phish.

The Planktons have exhibited their paintings, assemblages and prints worldwide, and are currently scheduling several gallery shows for 2003.

Plankton has received numerous art, design and illustration awards from the likes of Print and American Illustration, and their work has appeared in several books. Allen's typeface, Apogee, was included in the "Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture" exhibit at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.

The Planktons have just completed a seven-month, 400-illustration project for a permanent exhibit at a major New York museum (hint: it has a Blue Whale in it), which is due to open in May 2003.

Susan and Allen are worshippers of Poseidon, and have gone on several dive excursions in Central America and Australia. Allen is a contributing writer for the Philadelphia Independent, and is the originator of "prank rock". Both Planktons volunteer thier time conducting reptile and amphibian field surveys for the NJ Dept of Fish and Game. They have the softest skin in the business.

Lloyd Dangle

Lloyd Dangle is an Oakland, California illustrator, writer, and cartoonist, whose illustrations have appeared in many publications, commercial projects, and books. His weekly comic strip, Troubletown , has been nationally syndicated to alternative newsweeklies and political magazines since 1988. He is a member of the Graphic Artists Guild and is currently the Guild's National Vice President. His efforts have included organizing a group of California illustrators, known as the "All Rights Refusniks," to educate their colleagues on interpreting and negotiating contracts, and helped to establish the Contract Monitor newsletter. Lloyd has also led the Guild's five-year legislative and regulatory effort to reform California Sales tax, which resulted, this April, in a California Supreme Court ruling that fully excludes copyright licenses by illustrators, photographers and designers from tax.

Ann Field
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Ann Field's award-winning collages and bright illustrations are universally recognised to inspire. Educated at Brighton College of Art in England, she was mentored there by British illustrator Raymond Briggs... best known for his "Mr Snowman" children's books and movie. After graduating with a BA and emigrating to the United States, Ann worked with renowned fashion Illustrator Antonio Lopez in the Dominican Republic, and settled in Los Angeles. She has been featured in Communication Arts and Step Inside Design. and received awards from the Society of Illustrators of NewYork, Annual Report 100 "Best illustrated", American Illustration, CA, Print and Graphis. Her clients include Levis' jeans for women, Barbie, Hard Rock Hotel, Nike and Lexus. And her work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Design Museum.

Chair of the Promotions Commmittee for the ICON Conference, and a member of the Advisory Board of the AIGA Los Angeles, Ann also lectures and gives workshops on creativity for the design and illustration community including HOW, Envision, AIGA, Portfolio Center, Otis College and Art Center College of Design.

Craig Frazier
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Craig Frazier has owned his own design firm since 1978. He has designed trademarks, brochures, annual reports, packaging, posters and advertising. He has received numerous awards and has been recognized internationally for his design. His work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

He has been the subject of articles in Communication Arts (February 1991), Critique Magazine (Summer 1996, Autumn 1996) and Graphis No. 340 (July/August 2002). He is a frequent lecturer and juror for design organizations and publications around the country. He has been an instructor at California College of Arts and Crafts, and a guest instructor at the Kent State Summer Graduate Program.

Craig has published a 176-page monograph titled The Illustrated Voice (Graphis Press 2003.) He has also publishing two children's books titled The Tiny Brown Seed and There is a Monkey in My Drawers. His daughter Daniele Frazier is the author of The Tiny Brown Seed.

Wendy Gardner
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Wendy Ann Gardner, founder of SCARY STORIES INC., an artist originally from Toronto, Canada, began her career as a painter. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design and moved to New York City to work as an illustrator.

She began Scary Stories Inc. in 1997. Inspired by her own quirky pets, she created the Naughty Naughty Pets line of characters. These unique plush toys are playfully scary with angry eyes and growling teeth. The dolls are sold in boutiques, design stores, gifts shops, and museums throughout the world.

Wendy Ann Gardner's illustrations of the Naughty Naughty Pets characters have been licensed worldwide to create various products including children's clothing, stationery, lollipops, stickers, wallets, bags, and t-shirts. Her series of four children's books were published in 2002 by Hyperion Books for Children. She is currently developing more books and an animated TV series based on the characters.

She has been featured in popular and industry publications such as Playthings Magazine, Fortune Small Business, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Working Mother, and Elle Decor. Wendy Ann Gardner lives in New York City with her husband, one-year old daughter, and her cats Naughty Naughty Kiefer and Marty Cohen.

Amy Gary

Amy Gary has worked in the book retailing and publishing industry for over 20 years. She has worked in bookstores, as a book publisher's sales representative, as Sales Manager for Oxmoor House, as Marketing Director for Books-A-Million and co-founded a children's publishing company, Hyperion Books for Children. Currently Amy works as a literary agent, specializing in children's works and non-fiction, including being the agent for the Margaret Wise Brown estate. Articles about her and her work have appeared in Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Publisher's Weekly, Entertainment Weekly, Special Reports, Horn Book and many newspapers. Along with Cyd Moore, an illustrator of over 25 children's books, she co-founded Picturebook, a directory of children's book illustrators that is distributed to the trade, educational and electronic publishing community, along with art directors and advertising executives. Picturebook immediately became an essential tool for creative directors and editors looking to hire illustrators of works for children. During her career she has planned promotions for and worked with many well-known authors and celebrities including Pat Conroy, Emmitt Smith, Walter Cronkite, Burt Reynolds, Jeff Foxworthy, Regis Philbin, Dolly Parton, Anne Rice, Hillary Clinton, Dan Quayle, Barbara Bush, Former President Jimmy Carter, George Foreman and Joan Collins. She has booked authors on Good Morning America, Oprah, Donahue and the Today Show. Many of the marketing promotions she planned have been featured on national television news shows, such as CNN and NBC Evening News. In 1990 she found almost 100 unpublished works by Margaret Wise Brown, the popular children's author of Goodnight Moon and TheRunaway Bunny. She continues to edit and manage the rights to the works she discovered in addition to another 200 unpublished works she has since uncovered. Her recent books sold include many children's books, a diet cookbook, an architectural textbook, music books and a financial guide for women. Susan Jeffers, Steven Johnson and Lou Fancher are some of the illustrators who have brought life to Ms. Brown's unpublished works. Maurice Sendak and Rosemary Wells are scheduled to illustrate two of the books she has worked on. Amy lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, Nap, and their fourteen year-old daughter, Emily; thirteen year-old son, Britt; six year-old son, David; and fourteen year-old dog, Suzy Q

Sylvia Gashi
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Sylvia Gashi holds a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Sylvia has spent the past 10 years as a Senior Art Director for The Magazine Group, an international publication design/custom publisher in Washington, D.C. that produces and designs more than 60 magazines. Prior to TMG, she did the "ville" tour. Working at Whittle Communications (in Knox"ville") and The Kelly Group (in Charlottes"ville")--and freelanced for National Geographic Traveler and Scholastic. She has received numerous awards and has been recognized by SPD, Folio Magazine's Ozzie Magazine Design Awards, Print Magazine Regional Design annuals and The Art Director's Club of Washington, D.C. among others.

Sylvia assigns, buys stock and recommends illustrators and photographers to her co-workers--who, in turn, assign and buy more than 10,000 images a year. Her work can be viewed at themagazinegroup.com.

Pegi Goodman

Pegi Goodman is founding Creative Director of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, a Newsweek publication. Happily, this position allows her to indulge in her favorite job function -- talking and working with illustrators on a routine basis. Over the years, Pegi has held positions at a variety of publications, including The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and The American Lawyer, where she was creative director in charge of Steven Brill's first publication launch. In addition to her current position at Budget Travel, Pegi maintains her own design practice, focused primarily on magazine and children's book design. Her client list has included Major League Baseball, Barbie (the doll), the Parenting Group, SI for Kids, Scholastic, Little Brown, Golden Books, and The NBA. Her work has garnered numerous awards, including recognition from the Society of Publication Designers.

Bill Grigsby
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Bill Grigsby co-founded Reactor Art & Design Limited in 1982 as an illustration agency and design studio. Reactors artists execute commissions for periodicals, ad campaigns, books and products throughout Canada and the United States. The illustration oriented studio designs everything from corporate identities, promotions, Web sites, consumer goods packaging, to posters, postage stamps, magazines and books. As partner and artists representative, Bills involvement in the finding and development of new talent and the nurturing of the experienced is vital to maintaining Reactors reputation for creativity. He graduated from Film and Photography Studies at Ryerson in 1974.

Paul Grissom
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Paul's current life in advertising began in Toronto in 1981, when he left the Creative Directorship of a large international ad agency to persue the carefree life of a freelancer. He has since produced a whole lot of effective and award-winning work for a diverse clientele. He has also sat on the judging panels of the Marketing Magazine Awards, and the Advertising And Design Club of Canada.

Paul's company, Grissom & Friends, is currently providing free-lance creative direction to anyone who will listen, but particularly for the Kazoo Advertising Partnership, a virtual agency group composed of some old friends in the agency business who share his somewhat irreverent and non-traditional approach.

Robert Grossman
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Robert Grossman was born in New York City in 1940. His father Joseph was a display artist who gave Robert his earliest training and sent him to Saturday morning art classes at the Museum of Modern Art. After attending public schools in Brooklyn he went to Yale where he was the editor of the Yale Record ("America's Oldest College Humor Magazine") and graduated with a B.A. in fine art in 1961.

After a brief stint as an assistant to New Yorker art director James Geraghty, Grossman launched himself as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, his work featuring caricature and a satiric outlook. Early clients included Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune.

He has done cover illustrations for more than 500 issues of national magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and The New Republic. Today his work can be seen regularly in The Nation, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Natural History and the Yale Alumni Magazine.

He was nominated for a 1978 Academy Award for a brief animated film entitled Jimmy The C, and during the 1980's produced a number of animated television commercials. In 1979 he had a one-man show at the Vontobel Gallery in Zurich. His sculpture and paintings in oils have been widely exhibited in numerous group shows.

Grossman's home and studio are in New York's Soho district. He is twice divorced, with four children ? Michael, a painter, Alex, an actor, Leila, a photographer, and Annie, a writer -- and three grandchildren. Grossman's longtime companion is Elaine Louie, assistant to the editor of the Style Department of the New York Times, and the author of several books on food and design.

Steven Guarnaccia
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Steven Guarnaccia is the art director of the Op Ed page of the New York Times as well as being an illustrator and designer who has designed watches for Swatch, cards for the Museum of Modern Art and murals for Disney Cruise Lines. He is the author of Black and White, published by Chronicle, as well as the co-author of Designing for Children and HiFi's and HiBalls. He has illustrated a number of children's books, among them The Three Bears: A Tale Moderne which was published by Abrams, and Busy Busy City Street, which was chosen by the AIGA as one of the fifty books of the year in 2001.

Steven Heller
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Steven Heller is the art director of the New York Times Book Review and coChair of the School of Visual Arts MFA/Design program. The author of over 80 books on illustration, graphic design, and popular culture his most recent titles include "Design Humor: The Art of Graphic Wit," "The Graphic Design Reader," "Counter Culture: The Allure of Mini-Mannequins," and "Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century." He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

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Maira Kalman
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born. bucolic childhood. culture stuffed adolescence. played piano. stopped. danced. stopped. wrote. discarded writing. drew. reinstated writing. married tibor kalman and collaborated at iconoclastic yet successful design studio. children: two. dog: one.

author/illustrator:
Hey Willy, See The Pyramids, Sayonara Mrs. Kackleman, Max Makes A Million, Ooh La La (Max in Love), Max in Hollywood, Baby, Swami on Rye (Max in India), Chicken Soup, Boots, Next Stop Grand Central, What Pete Ate from A-Z, Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of John J. Harvey, plus, Stay Up Late illustrator, Roarr: Calder's Circus author, plus, un(Fashion) with Tibor Kalman, Colors: 1-13 The Tibor Years edited with Ruth Peltason.

Contributor to The New Yorker - interiors and cover art (most notably NEWYORKISTAN cover in collaboration with Rick Meyerowitz) The New York TImes Magazine, Interview, Travel and Leisure and more

Designed fabrics for Isaac Mizrahi, Kate Spade. Created sets for the ballet Four Saints in Three Acts for Mark Morris Dance Group, NY Designed mannequins for Ralph Pucci, NY Design watches and accessories distributed by MoMA, NYC Temporary murals for Grand Central Station renovation Co-Founder with Alex Melamid: the Rubber Band Society

Board of American Institute of Graphic Artists, NY Teach design - School of Visual Arts N.Y. - MFA Program

Awards (partial) American Institute of Graphic Artists, Art Directors Club, New York TImes Most Notable Children's Books, New York TImes Best Illustrated, Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, Society of Illustrators, American Illustrators, Publishers Weekly, Horn Book, Booklist, Child Magazine, Museum of Modern Art Permanent Design Collection, Finalist National Design Awards (Cooper Hewitt)

Current projects Sequel to What Pete Ate SMARTYPANTS Pete in School (pub date fall 2003) One woman show: Julie Saul Gallery Mural for Wave Hill Gardens, Riverdale, NY for spring 2004 continuation of un series - un(Architecture)

David Kelley
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Among David Kelley's earlier accomplishments was the painting of a 5 mile long wood Fence, and learning to fish, kill rattlers, hunt small game with various guns, ride horses, and play ice hockey all by the age of 13. In 1978 David and his brother Chris acquire various movie cameras from thrift stores, along with broken polaroid cameras and an old microphone. In the summer of 1980, David attends the Rhode Island School of Design, afterwards proclaiming,"art is hard," only to later proclaim, "algebra is harder ." He later moves to NYC and while directing small music video projects, and experimenting in computer animation, he falls in love with Adobe After Effects, animates countless motion graphics and commercial projects for production houses throughout NY, and finally signs as a director at Curious Pictures.

Anita Kunz
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Anita graduated from The Ontario College of Art in 1978. Since then she has lived in London, New York and Toronto, working for magazines, design firms, book publishersand advertising agencies.Her clients include Time magazine, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, GQ, The New YorkTimes, Sony Music, Random House Publishing and many others.

Paula Lerner
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Since 1985 Paula Lerner has been a Boston-based freelance photographer working primarily for national and international magazines. Among her clients are Smithsonian, People, Time, Newsweek, Stern (Germany), and Focus (Germany). She also does corporate and institutional photography for a wide variety of clients around the country.

Paula's work involves photographing people in all walks of life, and has taken her from the rain forests of Brazil to the back roads of New England. Her photographs have been selected multiple times for publication in the American Photography and the Communication Arts juried annuals. In 1998 her photo essay "A Widow on Welfare: An Untold Story" won First Place for Issue Reporting in the 55th Pictures of the Year competition.

Since 1999 Paula has been active in promoting good business practices among photographers and visual artists as well as an advocate for fair contracts from publishers. She is the Vice President of EP (Editorial Photographers), a non-profit group that maintains an internet discussion forum on the business of editorial photography and has more than 3,000 subscribers worldwide.

Candice Lopez
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Candice Lopez is a professor of graphic design at San Diego City College. She worked as an art director at BBDO Los Angeles and at design firms in San Diego before discovering that teaching was her passion. She has taught graphic design abroad in Zurich, Switzerland, Venice, Italy and Madrid, Spain and wrote a book on international education. San Diego City College is an inner city, urban community college and students there have won over 150 prestigious local, national and international design awards.

Her work for AIGA San Diego as Vice President, Education and Community Outreach chair led her to establish the Link Program that works with at risk high school students who have an interest in art and design. She currently serves as Art and Culture chair for the mayor of San Diegos downtown vision plan. Together with her husband Rafael she developed the Urban Art Trail Project that transformed districts of downtown San Diego that were plagued with blight and social problems. The project brought together designers, calligraphers, students, seniors and children who painted murals, electrical boxes, inscribed poetry onto sidewalks and created colorful mosaics and sculptures. Her latest venture the BenchMark Project brought 150 unique benches to downtown San Diego that were auctioned off to benefit arts education programs.

Rafael Lopez
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The work of Rafael López is a fusion of strong graphic style and magical symbolism. Growing up in Mexico City he was immersed by his architect parents in the rich cultural heritage and native color of street life.

Influenced by Mexican muralists he developed a bold drawing style with roots in these traditions. Trained as an illustrator at Art Center College of Design he finds inspiration in communicating concepts with an emotional twist. His client list includes Apple Computers, Good Morning America, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Los Angeles Times, Los Lobos, Macys, San Diego Blues Festival, San Diego Street Scene, Sierra Club, U.S. News and World Report and World Wildlife Fund.

He has taught illustration for Art Center College of Design and numerous illustration workshops in San Diego. Rafael?s commitment to use his art in community service projects has led to painted murals and other artworks for non-profit organizations. He is one of the original founders of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego. Rafael continues to speak around the nation to conferences and groups of artists, designers and illustrators about the power of art in building community.

Ashley Lorenz
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Ashley Lorenz derives a great deal of satisfaction securing high-quality jobs for her artists as an agent at Lilla Rogers Studio. Some recent projects include team-teaching a surface design development class with Lilla, assigning and negotiating a Klutz interactive book of over 60 illustrations, negotiating rights for Crate and Barrel hip holiday candy tins, giftwrap, and ornaments, and assigning a series of murals for Starbucks. She has negotiated over 1,000 contracts.

Originally from Denver, she's an avid skier and mountain biker.

Steffanie Lorig
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Steffanie is founder and director of Art with Heart, a community outreach that began under AIGA/Seattle Chapter, where she served on the board of directors from 1995-2002. She is a designer, closet-illustrator and author with numerous awards. Before starting her own one-person design studio, she most recently worked at Hornall Anderson, an internationally-known design firm. Previously, she was Creative Director at a software company and taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. Her book, "Oodles of Doodles", an activity book for chronically ill children, has been endorsed by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Make A Wish Foundation and the Starbright Foundation.

Ross MacDonald

Ross MacDonald's llustrations have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, The London Sunday Telegraph, Atlantic Monthly and Harpers.

He has written and illustrated humor pieces for Newsweek, Time, Mother Jones, The Times Op Ed page, and others.

He has worked on children's books, ads, book covers, a postage stamp, animated shorts for Sesame Street, on-air graphics, animation for a Saturday Night Live commercial parody, backgrounds for the Broadway and London stage productions of Tommy, and set design, illustrations and titles for the John Hughes movie Baby's Day Out.

His work has been honored in many competitions of design and illustration, including American Illustration, Print Regional Design Annual, Communication Arts, The Society of Publication Designers, the AIGA, and The Society of Illustrators.

His first children's picture book, 'Another Perfect Day' (Roaring Brook Press, fall 2002) was a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the year. His second, 'Achoo Bang Crash-the Noisy Alphabet' is due out in fall 2003 and a third, 'Big Baby' is in the works.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, two children, four cats and a large collection of 19th century type and printing equipment.

Terry Marks

Terry Marks is principal of Terry Marks Design which is very convenient in a Remington Steele sort of way. TMD is a multi-disciplinary design firm specializing in collateral and packaging. Terry's educational pedigree doesn't bear mention, but it may be interesting to note that he was found deficient in forward rolls in the first grade, was separated from the rest of the class in the third, and was sixth grade class president; the best three years of his life.

Terry has been Vice President of AIGA Seattle, is on the Executive Board of the Link art outreach program in Seattle, was the co-chair of the Oodles of Doodles For Your Noodle project: an activity book for hospitalized and seriously ill children and currently is chairing The Friends of Arthur Silent Auction, a fundraiser for Arthur, a good little boy with autism. His work has been recognized by HOW, Print, Critique, Neenah, Potlatch and a few others including his fourth grade 4-H.

But what he really wants to do is direct.

Wendell Minor
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Wendell Minor is well known in the publishing industry for the paintings he has done for twenty-five award winning picture books for children, two of which he has authored. Recently he re-illustrated Jack London's "The Call of the Wild," a 50th anniversary edition of "Shane" by Jack Schaefer, "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane, and most recently, the Katharine Lee Bates poem/song "America the Beautiful."

"Wendell Minor: Art For the Written Word," an anthology of twenty-five years of Minor's book cover art, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough, was published in September of 1995 by Harcourt Brace and Company. Minor's work has been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut. His paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Minor lives in Washington, Connecticut with his wife and business partner, Florence.

Mark Murphy
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Mark is a a nationally recognized personality and resource in the design and art industries who actively teaches, speaks and creates self-published art collections and exhibitions. Mark is also the founder and sole director of Murphy, an imaginative design resource based in San Diego, California that actively collaborates with leading talent and inspiring artists from around the globe over the past 12 years. Murphy has been recognized by Graphis, Communication Arts, ID Magazine, PIE books, Rockport Publishers and many, many more. Mark actively pursues opportunities that allow public interaction and presentation of large bodies of art work unified by one subject focus.

Christoph Niemann
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Christoph Niemann was born in Waiblingen/Stuttgart in 1970. After his studies at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts he moved to New York City, where he has been working as an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer since 1997. His work has appeared on the covers of The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine and Business Week. He is a member of the AIGA, and Alliance Graphique Internationale. With Nicholas Blechman he publishes the artist's book series 100%, and is co-author of Fresh Dialogue One: New Voices in Graphic Design (2000).

José Ortega

Originally from Ecuador lives in Toronto and NYC, He received a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in 1988. JosÈ has worked on commisions for clients such as Absolut Vodka, MTV, Apple Computers, Sony Music and Amnesty International. He has been the subject of a number of articles and received awards from several organizations including the Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts and Graphis. Recently he has completed a series of mosaic murals for two NYC subway stations and a stained glass window for the Buckingham Hotel also in NY. In Toronto he founded Open City a non-profit community arts group dedicated to presenting art exhibits, dance, music, and events for children.

C. F. Payne
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C. F. Payne is a freelance illustrator based in his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio. An R.F.A. graduate of Miami University, over the last 20 years concentrating on the editorial market C.F. has worked with numerous publications, including Time, Esquire, the New York Times, Worth, Boys Life, Forbes and MAD. He has received recognition from Communication Arts, Step-By-Step, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles (receiving both Gold and Silver awards), Print and How. He has received the Hamilton King Award for the Society of illustrators of New York. He currently teaches illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design. He lives with his wife Paula and children Trevor and Evan.