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Lorraine Wild

MFA Advisor / Principal, Green Dragon Office

Time 1:56 / calling from Los Angeles

  • Beat Culture and the New America: 1950–1965 by Allen Ginsberg (Whitney Museum of American Art)
  • Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art by Jacquelynn Baas and Mary Jane Jacob, 2004
  • The World from Here: Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles by Cynthia Burlingham, Bruce Whiteman, 2002. <br/>(UCLA Grunwald Center for the Arts/Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center)
  • Mies in America by Phyllis Lambert, 2001 (Canadian Centre for Architecture/Whitney Museum of American Art)
  • The Art of Richard Tuttle by Madeleine Grynsztejn, 2005 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

Lorraine Wild is a designer and educator living and working in Los Angeles. 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 served as a project tutor at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands from 1991 until 1998. One of the founding partners of the Los Angles design firm ReVerb since the early nineties, in 1996 Wild 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, The J. Paul Getty Trust and the UCLA Hammer Museum. Her work has been published in Emigre, Eye, ID Magazine, 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, ID Magazine, Print, Graphic Design in America, Cranbrook Design; The New Discourse, Lift & Seperate, Looking Closer, Looking Closer 2, Looking CLoser 4 and The Edge of the Millennium.