Woodbury adjunct faculty member April Greiman will receive an Honorary Member Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society of Typographic Arts. The award is bestowed upon high profile designers who have made unique, lasting and noteworthy contributions to the field of professional graphic design, nationally or internationally.
Morningstar
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
933 N Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
April Greiman is a thinker and artist, whose transmedia projects, innovative ideas and projects, and hybrid-based approach, have been influential worldwide over the last 30 years. Her explorations of image, word and color as objects in time and space are grounded in her singular fusion of art and technology. Greiman has been instrumental in the acceptance and use of advanced technology in the arts and the design process since the early 1980s.
About the STA
Since its inception in Chicago in 1927, The Society of Typographic Arts has been a vital participant in the Chicago design community, sponsoring seminars and conferences, and developing publications, including Trademarks USA (1964), Fifty Years of Graphic Design in Chicago (1977), Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy (1987), and ZYX: 26 Poetic Portraits (1989). For a brief time in the late 1980s, STA became the American Center for Design.