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Carrie Smith is Vice President of Creative Services at Concord Records. Carrie joined Concord in 2015 as part of the company’s on-going investment in innovation and pursuit of an exceptional Art & Design department. Carrie has curated a team of highly creative, passionate and talented individuals. Her department supports each label under Concord’s Recorded Music…

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Gail Anderson is a New York-based designer, writer, and educator. She teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA, undergraduate, and high school design programs, Director of SVA Visual Arts Press, and has served on the advisory boards for Adobe Partners by Design and the Society of Publication Designers. Anderson is the recipient of the…

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Aggie Toppins is an Associate Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Communication Design at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, Toppins taught at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where, for two years, she served as the first female Department Head in Art. Through her studio…

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Libby Phillips Meggs earned a BFA in art and design from Virginia Commonwealth University. She worked as an advertising art director, then went on to become a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. From childhood, Libby made up stories and illustrated them for her own amusement, finally seeing her dreams become real with the publication of…

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NAOMA SERNA-ZAHN is foundHER and creative director of Nuevo Studio in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Naoma is a multi-award winning Graphic Designer, originally from Mexico. Moving here for university, she received a B.A. in French Literature and Culture as well as a B.F.A. in Graphic Design the School of Design at the University of Central Oklahoma.…

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Bryony Gomez-Palacio, born and raised in Mexico City, is a graphic designer and writer now living in Bloomington, IN. She is co-founder of UnderConsideration—a graphic design firm and publishing enterprise all rolled into one—where she manages the behind-the-scenes of the online network comprised of Brand New, FPO, Quipsologies and The Art of the Menu. Bryony…

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Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar is the Acting Under Secretary for Education. She is responsible for defining the Smithsonian’s educational priorities. She concentrates her efforts on Institution-wide educational initiatives, communication strategies and funding for programs that benefit learners of all ages. A significant focus of her work is to leverage the collective capacity of the Smithsonian education community…

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Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum where she has organized numerous exhibitions, publications, and public programs at the museum. Lupton serves as director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at mica and has authored numerous books such as “Thinking with Type” and “Graphic Design Thinking.” She holds…

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Amanda Horton, MFA, is a Professor in the Department of Design at the University of Central Oklahoma, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Amanda (Mandy) Horton teaches graphic design history, theory and criticism classes, has developed multiple courses on design history, including an award-winning online History of Graphic Design course and is director of the Design History minor…