Guest Lecturers

Abbott Miller, writer, curator, partner, Pentagram
Adam Harrison Levy, writer and freelance documentary film producer
Adrian Shaughnessy, author
Alissa Walker, author
Alissa Quart, author
Allan Chochinov, co-founder and editor, Core 77; faculty, SVA MFA Design
Andrea Lipps, curatorial assistant, Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Andrew Blauvelt, design director, Walker Art Center
Andrew Rumbach, PhD candidate, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
Ayse Birsel, co-founder, Birsel + Seck
Beth Kleber, archivist, SVA Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives
Bill Berry, webmaster, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Brian Collins, chief creative officer, Collins
Casey Jones, Director of Design Excellence and the Arts, U.S. General Services Administration
Catarina Tsang, principal, Tsang Seymour Design Inc.
Cathleen McGuigan, arts editor, Newsweek
Cathy Leff, director, Wolfsonian-FIU
Chandler Burr, author and perfume critic, The New York Times
Chee Pearlman, design consultant and conference program director
Cynthia Smith, curator of socially responsible design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Dan Nadel, founder and director, PictureBox, Inc.
Daniel van der Velden, graphic designer and founding partner, Metahaven
Danielle Sacks, writer
David Barringer, author, graphic designer, photographer, artist
David Humphrey, visual artist, writer
David Krasnow, senior editor, PRI’s “Studio 360″
David Reinfurt, graphic designer, writer, critic
David Womack, design, technology and culture writer
Debbie Millman, design division at Sterling Brands, President of the AIGA, SVA Master of Professional Studies in Branding chair
Deborah Marton, Executive Director, Design Trust for Public Spaces
Donald Albrecht, curator, Museum of the City of New York
Elaine Lustig Cohen, designer, book dealer, artist
Elio Caccavale, designer
Ellen Lupton, writer, curator, graphic designer
Elizabeth Demaray, conceptual artist
Elizabeth Royte, author
Elyssa Dimant, fashion critic, CITY magazine
Emily King, author, curator, design historian
Eric Himmel, editor-in-chief, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Erin McCluskey, public programs manager, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Eugenia Bell, design editor, Frieze
Floramae Cates, former curator of drawings and prints, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Gabriel Snyder, editor-in-chief, Gawker
Gary Hustwit, filmmaker, Helvetica, Objectified
Geoff Kaplan, graphic designer
Geoff Manaugh, author of BLDGBLOG
George Trakas, sculptor
Gerry Beegan, design historian
Glenn Horowitz, antiquarian book dealer
Gloria Kury, art historian and book publisher
Irwin Chusid, archivist and radio host
Jake Barton, founder, Local Projects
Jamer Hunt, designer, Big+Tall Design; associate professor of Transdisciplinary Design, Parsons
James Sanders, architect, author, and documentary maker
Jamie Gray, owner of design shop, Matter
Jason Fulford, photographer and co-founder, J&L Books
Jeff Roth, The New York Times researcher
Jen Northrop, communications and marketing director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Jenni Sorkin, craft historian
Jennifer Kabat, contributing editor, Metropolis
Jessica Helfand, graphic design writer and partner, Winterhouse Studio
Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, curator and department head of Costume and Textiles, Museum of Art, RISD
Jocelyn Groom, head of exhibitions, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Jonathan Fein, film director
Julie V. Iovine, executive editor, Architect’s Newspaper
Katie Salen, writer and educator, Design and Technology Program, Parsons
Kazys Varnelis, director, Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Kerry Lauerman, editor, Salon.com
Kevin Kearney, founder, Hard Candy Shell
Kevin O’Callaghan, 3D designer and collector
Laura Kurgan, architect, designer and teacher, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Laurie Rosenwald, author, illustrator, founder of Rosenworld Design Studio
Laurie Olivieri, public affairs specialist, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Liz Danzico, chair, SVA MFA Interaction Design
Lockhart Steele, blog publisher and president, Curbed
Mark Schapiro, editorial director, Center for Investigative Reporting
Martin Beck, visual artist
Martin C. Pedersen, executive editor, Metropolis
Martina Fineder and Thomas Geisler, faculty, Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, partners, Antenna Design
Melissa Lafsky, author, Opinionistas blog
Michael Barson, ephemera collector and publicist, Penguin Books
Michael Rock, graphic designer and founding partner, 2×4, Inc.
Milton Glaser, graphic designer
Naomi Stead, architecture, art and design writer
Natalie Jeremijenko, artist and engineer, associate professor, NYU Visual Art Department
Neil Selkirk, photographer
Pat Kirkham, design and cultural historian
Patrick Seymour, principal, Tsang Seymour Design
Paul Lukas, ESPN sports uniform critic
Paul Shaw, type archeologist and design historian
Peter Feld, Web editor and blogger
Peter Hall, senior lecturer in design, University of Texas at Austin
Rick Poynor, author and design critic
Rob Forbes, founder, Design Within Reach
Rob Giampietro, designer and writer
Sam Tanenhaus, editor, The New York Times Book Review
Sarah Lawrence, director, MA History of Decorative Arts & Design program, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Sasha Frere-Jones, pop-music critic, The New Yorker
Scott Henderson, designer and founder, Scott Henderson Inc.
Simi Linton, writer, disability rights scholar
Spyros Papapetros, assistant professor, Princeton University School of Architecture
Stephanie Murg, co-editor, Mediabistro’s UnBeige
Stephen Duncombe, author and professor, Media, Culture and Communications department, NYU
Stephen Nickson, instructor, presentations and writing skills, Yale University
Steven Guarnaccia, ephemera collector and chair of Illustration, Parsons School of Design
Stuart Ewen, design historian
Stuart Kestenbaum, director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Susan Yelavich, teacher, curator, critic and author
Tacey Rosolowski, author, critic
Valerie Vago Laurer, editor, Phaidon Books
Vicki Gold Levi, photo researcherk
Victoria Milne, owner, 6¢ Design
Zoe Ryan, Neville Bryan Curator of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago