Faculty, Graphic Design Department
California Institute of the Arts
A designer and educator living and working in Los Angeles, Lorraine is an AIGA Medal recipient for 2006. She has been teaching at the California Institute of the Arts since 1985 (she was the director of the Program in Graphic Design from 1985 to 1991). She was a project tutor at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 1991 until 1998. In 1996 she established her own design practice to focus on collaborations with architects, curators and publishers in this country and abroad. Recent projects include the design of exhibition catalogues for the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and The J.Paul Getty Trust. Her work has been published in Emigre, Eye, I.D., Print, Design Quarterly, Studio Voice, and in the anthologies The Graphic Edge, Typography Now and Typography Now: Two. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and books, including Emigre, I.D., Print, Graphic Design in America, Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse, Lift & Separate, Looking Closer, Looking Closer 2, and The Edge of the Millennium.
In 2001, Wild was one of three finalists for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Award in communications design. In 1998, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibited 'Lorraine Wild: selections from the permanent collection', a display of recent work acquired as part of their collection of significant design produced in California. Wild also has work in the collections of the Cooper-Hewitt and the Library of Congress. Wild has received numerous awards from The American Center for Design, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the American Institute of Architects and the American Association of University Publishers, among others. She was named as one of the 'I.D. Forty' in 1993 and was a recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design in 1995. She has served on the national boards of the both the American Institute of Graphic Arts & the Society for Typographic Arts (now the American Center for Design). Wild received her BFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and MFA from Yale University.
