4 Year Anniversary of Design Matters Today with Steve Heller and Lita Talarico

Joining me today on the Four Year Anniversary of Design Matters with Debbie Millman are Lita Talarico and Steven Heller!

Lita Talarico is the co-founder and co-chair (with Steven Heller) of the MFA Design as Author program at the School of Visual Arts. She has spent her career involved with art, architecture and design, and has held leadership positions with three notable institutions of higher education whose primary focus are those fields – Cooper Union, Purchase College and the School of Visual Arts. She has played significant administrative and organizational roles in prestigious conferences, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, numerous publishing and competition ventures, and the selection of architects and designers for commissions. She has been a consultant to the General Services Administration and American Express Company, and has been a founding associate at Bill Lacy Design. She was the founding managing editor and project director for American Illustration and Photography. She is co-author of Design Career: Practical Knowledge for Beginning Illustrators and Designers, The Design Entrepreneur, and the forthcoming books Design School Confidential, Design Schools North America, and 100 Essentials for the Graphic Design Student.

Steven Heller is the co-founder and co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author program and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism and MFA in Interaction Design programs at the School of Visual Arts, New York. For 33 years he was an art director at the New York Times (28 of them as senior art director NY Times Book Review). He currently writes the “Visuals” column for the Book Review. He is editor of AIGA VOICE: Online Journal of Design and contributing editor to Print, EYE, Baseline, and ID magazines. He contributes to Design Observer and writes the DAILY HELLER blog for Print Magazine. He is the author of over 120 books on design and popular culture, including Design Literacy, Paul Rand, Anatomy of Design, Graphic Style, Stylepedia, The Design Entrepreneur, and most recently Iron Fists: Branding the Twentieth Century Totalitarian State. He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

Design Matters airs live weekly on the Voice America Business Network, now the industry leader in Internet talk radio. The show was voted a "favorite podcast" on PSFK's Marketing Podcast survey and it was voted 9th out of over 300 entries for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum’s People’s Choice Award in 2007. The show is also available as Podcasts on iTunes, where over 100,000 people download the show every month.

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Additional shows airing in February:

February 13th: Guest Host Nate Voss interviews Joe Duffy
February 20: Natalya Ilyin
February 27: Patrick Coyne

As always, thank you for listening!