Lita Talarico

Writer; design and architectural consultant

MFA Design

Education

BA, Empire State College; MFA, School of Visual Arts


Professional experience includes

Co-chair, MFA Design Department, School of Visual Arts; Founding managing editor, American Illustration & Photography; reporter-at-large, Italian Design Graphis; advisor, Charrette; design competition, U.S. Port of Entry at Massena, NY; architect selection consultant: Cleveland Museum of Art, National World War II Memorial Design Competition; Pritzker Architecture Prize Annual Jury Meeting; project director: Whitehall Ferry Terminal Design Competition; project coordinator, Italian Manifesto Conference, International Design Conference in Aspen


Books include

Design School Confidential; Design Entrepreneur: Turning Graphic Design into Goods that Sell; Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers; Design Career: Practical Knowledge for Beginning Illustrators and Graphic Designers; Typography Sketchbooks. Co-editor, Graphis Publication Design. Associate editor, Art Against War, New York Observed


Awards and honors include

Visiting scholar, American Academy in Rome; advisory board member emeritus, Adobe Partners by Design