Director/Art Director
Visual Arts Press, School of Visual Arts.
Faculty, Graphic Design Department
Formerly:
• Vice President, Creative Director, Harry N. Abrams.
• Art Director, Sports Illustrated Magazine
• Vice President, Design, Turner Publishing
• Design Director, The Washington Post Sunday Magazine
—Education: Grand Valley State University;
—Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London
≠≠≠ AWARDS & RECOGNITION ≠≠≠
Over 250 to date, from the following organizations:
* American Illustration Annuals
* American Photography Annuals
* American Institute of Graphic Arts (aiga) Annual design competition; 50 books/50 covers
* American Association of Museums, poster and publication award winner
* Applied Arts (Canada’s Visual Communications magazine)
* Art Direction Magazine
* Art Directors Club (adc), multiple cube winner, New York & Washington D.C.,
* Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, Publishers Marketing Association
* British Art Direction & Design (ad&d) Annuals
* Communication Arts Magazine Design competitions
* Creativity Magazine
* The Creative Review Annual, UK
* Graphis Design Annuals, Graphis Poster competition, multiple gold
* Higher Education 25thAnnual Educational Advertising Awards, gold
* HOW Magazine ‘‘Perfect 10’’ Awards 2006 (one of ten selections featured in Nov/Dec 2006 issue)
* Hugo Award
* I.D. Annual Design Review
* In-HOWse design awards
* LERN International Awards—Design and Innovative Practice in Business and Industry winner
* Literary Marketplace (lmp) winner: Book Design Individual Achievement Award, March 1996
* New York Book Show, multiple category winner
* One Show Design, multiple pencil winner
* Print Magazine; Print Magazine Creativity + Commerce and International Business Graphics review
* Red Dot Award, Communication Design, “the largest and most renowned international design competition in the world”
* Society of Publication Designers (spd) Society of Newspaper Designers (snd)
* Summit International Creative awards, multiple gold
* Top Ten Sunday Magazine National Cover competitions, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989
* Type Directors Club, New York
* University & College Designers Association (ucda), multiple gold
* Webby Awards, first place winner 2005 & ‘06, People choice award winner 2008, Webby Design Honoree 2011
* Web Marketing Association 2006 & ’07, University Standard of Excellence winner
recent work featured:
NEW ORNAMENTAL TYPE: DECORATIVE LETTERING IN THE DIGITAL AGE (Hardcover) Steven Heller / Gail Anderson Thames & Hudson (May 1, 2010)
BECOMING A GRAPHIC DESIGNER (4th Edition) Steven Heller / Teresa Fernandes (Wiley Publishers) (Oct 2010)
VISIBLE SIGNS: AN INTRODUCTION TO SEMIOTICS IN THE VISUAL ARTS (2nd edition) David Crow (Ava Academia Publishing, UK) (Autumn 2010)
THE LANGUAGE OF GRAPHIC DESIGN: An Illustrated Handbook for Understanding Fundamental Design Principles (Hardcover) Richard Poulin (Rockport Publishers) Spring 2011 (scheduled release)
Email: mjwalsh@sva.edu
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