Bonnie Siegler

Bonnie Siegler (born 1963) is a New York-based graphic designer. She is the founder of the design studio Eight and a Half and, before that, co-founded the design studio Number Seventeen in 1993. Her clients include Participant Media, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live, HBO, Brooklyn Public Library, Maveron, Random House, The Criterion Collection,[1] The New York Times, Nickelodeon, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Biography

Siegler grew up in Huntington Station, New York and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.[2]

She then worked at MTV Networks as design director of VH1.[3] In 1993 she co-founded Number 17 with partner Emily Oberman.[2] Number 17's clients included Saturday Night Live, The Daily Beast, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Lucky Magazine, Colors Magazine, This American Life, and The Mercer Hotel and Kitchen.[4] While at Number 17, she also served as Creative Director of Newsweek after overseeing its complete redesign.[5]

She has taught in the masters programs at both Yale University and the School of Visual Arts and was the 2014 Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the University of Hartford.[6][7][8]

Siegler founded her current design studio, Eight and a Half, in 2012. The studio partners with clients in all media and on all kinds of projects including brand identity systems, online experiences, information design, motion graphics, publication design, book design, advertising, and package design. She also has a weekly advice column, "Dear Bonnie", on Design Observer in which she responds to readers' professional, social, or design-related dilemmas.[9]

She was voted one of the 50 most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA.[10] She was the chairman of the AIGA national design conference in 2013,[11] having previously created and chaired AIGA's Design for Film and Television conferences in 1999 and 2001.[12] She also created and produced Command X, a live competition featuring up-and-coming designers, for the last four of AIGA's national design conferences. Her studio's work is in the permanent design archives of AIGA[13] and her work has been recognized with awards from the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, the Webby Awards, and the Broadcast Design Association.[7][14][15]

Personal life

Bonnie Siegler is married to filmmaker, animator, and painter Jeff Scher.[6] They currently live in Brooklyn with their two children.

References

  1. ↑ Heller, Steven (May 23, 2013). "How Would You Edit a Timeless Movie Into a 2-Minute One?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gomez-Palacio, Bryony; Vit, Armin (2008-12-08). Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration from the Original Trailblazers to the New Groundbreakers. F & W Pubns Inc. ISBN 978-1-60061-085-1. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Fishel, Catherine (2002). Inside the Business of Graphic Design: 60 Leaders Share Their Secrets of Success. Allworth Press. ISBN 9781621531173. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Jenny (May 1, 2005). Graphic Design America 3: Portfolios from the Best and Brightest Firms from Across the U.S. Rockport Publishers. ISBN 9781610596701. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Deveny, Kathleen (May 4, 2009). "Reinventing Newsweek". Newsweek. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "WEDDINGS; Bonnie Siegler And Jeff Scher". The New York Times. October 24, 1999. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "MFA Designer as Author". Retrieved 8 July 2013.
  8. ↑ "Double Feature - VCD Koopman Chair Exhibition". Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  9. ↑ "Dear Bonnie". Design Observer. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  10. ↑ "Most Influential Graphic Designers Working Today, 50th Anniversary Survey". GDUSA. January 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  11. ↑ "AIGA 2013 National Conference". Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  12. ↑ Eye, Number 32, Summer 1999
  13. ↑ "AIGA Design Archives". Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  14. ↑ "ADC Young Guns". Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  15. ↑ Vo, Lam Thuy (June 8, 2009). "Webby Awards Recognize Internet's Weirdest and Wackiest". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

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