Design Firms Open for Business - Softcover

While many young designers perceive a design studio to be little more than a table and computer, the majority of businesses consider the physical locale and architectural surroundings of a firm to be as important as the work that is produced. Design Firms Open for Business is a firsthand look inside studios and offices, both large and small, from all over the world.

Steven Heller is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program and co-founder of the MFA in Design Criticism and MFA in Interaction Design programs at the School of Visual Arts. For thirty-three years he was an art director at the New York Times, and currently writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review. He is contributing editor to Print, EYE, and Baseline magazines, and writes the popular blog THE DAILY HELLER. He is the author or editor of over 130 books on design and popular culture, including Design Literacy, Design Disasters, and 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design. He is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement and the 2011 Smithsonian National Design Award for "Design Mind." Lita Talarico is the co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has been active for the past thirty years as a producer, editor, writer, and educator in the worlds of architecture and graphic design. She co-founded the SVA Masters Workshop in Italy, an ongoing summer program that examines the origins of type and typography. Her books include Typography Sketchbooks, The Design Entrepreneur, and Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World's Great Graphic Designers . She teaches and lectures on design entrepreneurialism around the world.