Graphic Design MFA: FACULTY
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  • FACULTY

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    Ellen Lupton is Director of the GD MFA program. She is also
    curator of contemporary design at Cooper–Hewitt, National
    Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution in New York City.
    She has curated and authored numerous exhibitions and books,
    including Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design (2002), National
    Design Triennial
    (2000, 2003, 2006), Graphic Design in the
    Mechanical Age
    (1998), Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in
    Contemporary Culture
    (1996), and Mechanical Brides: Women
    and Machines from Home to Office
    (1993). She is a 2007 recipient
    of the AIGA Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.

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    Jennifer Cole Phillips is Associate Director of the GD MFA pro-
    gram at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Principal of
    J.Cole Phillips Design. Before joining MICA, Phillips was a tenured
    Associate Professor in the program in Publications Design at
    University of Baltimore. She has an MFA from Rhode Island School
    of Design.Her work has been included in the annuals of Graphis
    Design, Graphis Poster, Print, the Art Director’s Club of
    Metropolitan Washington and New York, AIGA 50, and ACD100
    Show, among others. She served for eight years on the Board AIGA
    of Directors for Baltimore.

    ADDITIONAL FACULTY

    Abbott Miller is a designer, editor, art director, and writer. He is
    a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, where his clients
    include Vitra, the Guggenheim Museum, the Ford Foundation, and
    Harley-Davidson International. He is editor and art director of
    Twice magazine.He has designed numerous books and exhibitions,
    and is co-author with Ellen Lupton of the booksDesign Writing
    Research
    (1996) and The Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics
    of Waste
    (1992). He has taught courses in the GD MFA program at
    MICA since 2004.

    Kevin Auer is letterpress printer and book binder. He received
    his BA from Connecticut College and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in
    the history program at the University of Texas, Austin, where he completed
    a certificate in Book and Paper Conservation. He apprenticed as a printer
    and book binder and worked in private practice for a number of years as co-
    owner of Wolf Editions, a fine-art edition print shop in Portland, Maine.
    He is presently the Assistant Manuscript Conservator at the Walters Art
    Museum in Baltimore. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in
    letterpress and bookbinding at MICA.

    Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen are designers, musicians, and poster
    artists. They are founders of the notorious studio PostTypography.
    They have lectured and performed around the country. Their music
    group Double Dagger is considered the world’s first punk typography
    band. Post Typography’s limited edition book Alphabet: Hand-Drawn
    Lettering and Experimental Typography
    , is a compendium of sixty
    international alphabets. Nolen and Bruce have BFAs from MICA, and
    they have taught courses in the graduate and undergraduate programs
    since 2006.

    VISITING ARTISTS 07/08

    Carin Goldberg

    Jessica Helfand

    Rob Weychert

    Mike Perry

    Laurie Rosenwald

    Abbott Miller

    Michael Bierut

    Stephen Farrell

    Jenna Zilincar

    Peter and Davy Rothbart

    VISITING ARTISTS 06/07

    Abbott Miller

    Tsia Carson

    Marybeth Shaw

    Dave Plunkert

    Marian Bantjes

    Alicia Cheng

    Peter Cho

    Rick Valicenti