Once Upon an AIGA Meeting

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By Steven HellerPosted  ∙  1 min. read

Sometime in the 1980s this was a board meeting of the AIGA. The snapshot shows an illustrious group on a spring retreat. I’ll try to identity a few of the subjects here …

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Back row (from left): unknown, McCray Magelby, Tibor Kalman, Colin Forbes, Jerry Herring, Bruce Blackburn, Steve Frykholm, Ralph Caplan, April Greiman. Middle row (right to left): Caroline Hightower, unknown, Steven Heller, Kit Hinrichs, Chris Pullman, unknown, Milton Glaser. Front row (left to right), Mildred Friedman, Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl, Richard Saul Wurman, Katherine McCoy, Nancye Green, Marc Treib, Cipe Pineles, unknown.

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Steven Heller has written for PRINT since the 1980s. He is co-chair of SVA MFA Designer as Entrepreneur. The author, co-author and editor of over 200 books on design and popular culture, Heller is also the recipient of the Smithsonian Institution National Design Award for "Design Mind," the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement and other honors. He was a senior art director at The New York Times for 33 years and a writer of obituaries and book review columnist for the newspaper, as well. His memoir, Growing Up Underground (Princeton Architectural Press) was published in 2022. Some of his recent essays are collected in For the Love of Design (Allworth Press).

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