Angela Riechers

My career up until now has been designing magazines including Harper’s, Home Magazine, More, O at Home, Portfolio, and NY Times T Magazine. I also teach and lecture on design at CCNY and SVA. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in illustration and working as an editorial illustrator for a while, I took on freelance design projects and gradually morphed into a fulltime art director.

I’ve always enjoyed the talking about ideas part of art direction almost more than the actual page-design process. My secret self for years was a writer, so design criticism as a discipline was a logical next step for me. I’m having a fantastic time in the DCrit program thinking and writing about design from the other side of the desk.

I love to gather information and connect the dots. I’ll read the back of the cereal box, the stack of old comic books at a yard sale, the teamsters’ weekly newspaper, literary fiction, biographies, a blog about taxidermy, every news site on the web, reviews, how-tos, cookbooks, at least 20 magazines a month, a hard copy of the Times every morning; it’s all fair game. I was once so engrossed in a cheap airport novel I didn’t hear announcements for my flight boarding. I looked up to see United Flight 332 to Honolulu taxiing down the runway. Without me.