Advisory Board Members

AIGA Boston is grateful to the following creative industry professionals for their volunteer service to the chapter's Advisory Board. Though unpaid, they generously give us their time, skills, and ideas so that we may best serve our members.

This board assists in extending the reach of the General Board of Directors through its experience, influence and mentoring of the members of our general board and membership. They provide guidance on critical chapter decisions, leadership perspective to the future goals and events of the chapter, organizational direction on tough strategic matters, and advise the Board of Directors on unlocking the value of AIGA to the business community and internal membership.

Neal Kane

Libretto  |  www.libretto-inc.com

Neal Kane's involvement with the design field began when he roomed with three RISD students at the dawn of the 1980s, and continues to the present day. One of his first (and only) staff jobs was as the staff writer at Lightspeed Computers, an early provider of design systems for graphic artists. He began his freelance writing career in 1986, and launched his company, Libretto, 10 years later. Libretto provides strategic writing and messaging services, often through collaboration with AIGA member firms, for clients such as Wellesley College, MIT, EMC, and FedEx. The company has provided extensive editorial support for the AIGA Boston Journal, and Neal served as editorial chair of the Boston Profiled guide that was created for the 2005 AIGA National Conference. He also served as secretary of AIGA Boston during the early 1990s, and rejoined the organization as part of the advisory board several years ago. He has been a lecturer and guest critic at several area design schools, and has participated in local AIGA events as a panelist, speaker, and BoNE Show emcee. Neal also serves as the chair of The History Project, Boston's LGBT history group, and is the editor of Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland.

Adam Larson

Adam&Co.  |  www.adamncompany.com

Adam Larson is a designer and illustrator, located in Boston, MA. After 10 years working for various design and advertising companies, Larson decided to start his own. In 2007 he left Arnold Worldwide, where he was a VP Creative Director, to open Adam&Co., a creative studio specializing in branding, packaging and identities.

Larson's experience in design spans many disciplines, having worked with clients both big and small, on projects both big and small, across a variety of industries. He has had the great privelage of working with some world-class brands including Absolut, Estee Lauder, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, truth, Nike, Virgin, Coca Cola, Samuel Adams, John Deere, Jack Daniels, MIT, Harvard University, Fleetwood Mac, and Madonna.

Larson is also a practicing illustrator. His illustrations have appeared on the pages of Rolling Stone, ESPN, New York Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Time Out NY, Men's Health, Technology Review, Print, Mojo, and Lemon.

Both his illustration and design work have been showcased in numerous books and magazines that focus on contemporary art and design. His work has received several competitive design awards including the Clio Awards, Cannes Lions, The Kelly Awards, D+AD, The Andy Awards, One Show, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, Print, How, The Addys, and American Illustration. He was twice nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the truth campaign.

He is also a contributing editor/art director for Lemon Magazine, and holds a BFA from Syracuse University.

Chris Pullman

Private Practice

For 35 years as VP of Design, Branding and Visual Communications at WGBH, Chris Pullman and his staff of 50 designers helped this public media company become a leader in its field. In October 2008 he left WGBH to pursue Life 2.0, with a focus on painting. His last project was his biggest design problem ever: helping to create WGBH's new studios and headquarters in Brighton which opened to the public in the fall of 2007. In the way back, Chris helped launch the Boston Chapter of AIGA and has been active on the Advisory Board for many years. He also looks forward every fall semester to teaching motion design in Yale's graduate program where he has taught since 1966. On the side Chris served for many years on the board of the Corporate Design Foundation. His wife Esther is a photographer, represented by Victoria Monroe Fine Art in Boston.

Clifford Stoltze

Stoltze Design  |  www.stoltzedesign.com

Clifford Stoltze is the founder of Stoltze Design, a 10-person studio located in Boston, MA. Capabilities include strategic design for print, interactive media and packaging. Over the past 20 years, Stoltze has worked with a diverse group of clients including education, publishing, technology, financial and entertainment. Published and exhibited internationally, Stoltze's work has received numerous awards from leading design organizations including: The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), The American Center for Design, and The Type Directors Club. Clif also teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and was honored by being the recipient of the 2005 AIGA Boston Fellows Award.

Denise Korn

Korn Design  |  www.korndesign.com

Denise Korn is the Principal/Owner of Korn Design, a nationally recognized creative communications firm with offices in Boston and New York. Korn has worked with a wide range of clients including top-of-class developers, entrepreneurs, chefs, and institutional leaders, providing expert consultation on an equally wide range of assignments in the categories of leading hospitality, restaurants, luxury goods and ground-breaking strategic work. Actively involved in the political and civic life of greater Boston, Korn has served as the American Institute of Graphic Arts Boston, Board Chair for Business Outreach, creating forums to connect business leaders and innovators to discuss the role of design communications and its value in smart business practices. Korn recently completed a two-year term as Co-President of the New England Creative Economy Initiative. She currently sits on the board of Kids Can Cook, an inner-city, middle-school outreach program that uses cooking and the food arts to teach life lessons. In 2003, Korn founded AIGA Youth Design Boston, a summer jobs program connecting Boston inner high school students to career opportunities in design; since its founding, the program has gained national attention and will soon be expanded to sister cities around the country.

Lizzi Ross

Independent program and project manager

Lizzi Ross is an innovative project management professional, with 15+ years of experience engaging new audiences in exploring broad perspectives on creativity and contemporary culture. With a highly successful record of developing visionary, cross disciplinary and high visibility programming with the newest and most innovative talent from a diverse range of intellectual fields, Lizzi has worked with artists such as David Byrne, Maira Kalman, Patti Smith, Tara Donovan and Shepard Fairey, as well as scientists, authors, architects, psychologists, philosophers, civic leaders and chefs of similar achievement and renown. As Adult Program Manager at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Lizzi partnered with AIGA Boston to create the ICA/AIGA Design Series—engaging some of the most exciting voices in design today. Lizzi serves on the advisory board of IDEAS Boston and the education committee of the Fuller Craft Museum, and has presented at conferences, colleges and events nationally and internationally.

Elizabeth Resnick

Massachusetts College of Art and Design  |  www.massart.edu

Elizabeth Resnick is a Professor in the Graphic Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts. She holds a B.F.A. and M.F.A. degree in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Elizabeth served on the board of the AIGA Boston chapter from 1989-2005 organizing numerous events. From 2003-2005 she served on the AIGA National Design Education Steering Committee. She is the 2007 recipient of AIGA Boston’s Fellows Award.

Elizabeth is a passionate design curator who has organized four comprehensive design exhibitions with faculty partners: “Russell Mills: Within/Without” (1991) with Teresa Flavin; “Dutch Graphic Design: 1918-1945” (1994) with Alston W. Purvis; “Makoto Saito: Art of the Poster” (1999) with Jan Kubasiewicz, and “The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965-2005” with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman.

Elizabeth’s publications include Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics for John Wiley & Sons (2003) and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall (1984). She writes occasional commentaries and event reviews, and has interviewed prominent designers and design educators, all of which have been published in EYE (UK), AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (USA), Graphis (USA) Graphics International (UK), TipoGrafica (Argentina) and IDEA (Japan).

Besides her full-time teaching schedule, Elizabeth is currently assembling material for a book project of socio political assignment briefs and co-curating an international poster exhibition on AIDS awareness.

Gina Deschamps

Deschamps Printing  |  www.deschampsprinting.com

Gina has been in the graphic arts industry for nearly 25 years, having started her career in the paper business. She "crossed over to the dark side" by joining her family printing business about five years ago. Gina also served as president of AIGA Boston and is the current Chairman of the Board of the Printing and Publishing Council of New England.

Deschamps Printing in Salem, MA, is a completely state-of-the art, mid-size printer offering both offset and digital printing services. Recent additions to their service offerings include a new on-line ordering system, meaning that they can now offer qualified clients the opportunity to customize an on-line, web-based ordering system.

Fritz Klaetke

Visual Dialogue  |  www.visualdialogue.com

The offspring of an architect and a painter, Fritz Klaetke was genetically pre-destined to be a designer. He grew up in Detroit and founded Visual Dialogue in 1988 while still a student at the University of Michigan. Visual Dialogue’s work ranges from brand identity to music packaging, print collateral to websites, magazines to sculpture, and book design to interiors. Clients include The Art Institute of Boston, Barbara Lynch restaurant group, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Institute of Contemporary Art, Moshe Safdie and Associates, MIT, and Smithsonian Institution. Klaetke’s work has received every major award in the communications design industry and has been featured in publications such as Communication Arts, Dwell, Graphis, HOW, I.D., Novum, STEP, and Sports Illustrated.  Klaetke has also served as a juror for the AIGA national design competition, Communication Arts annual, and the Advertising and Design Club of Canada (ADCC) national show. In addition, several of Klaetke’s projects are included in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. Visual Dialogue is located in a renovated rowhouse in Boston’s historic South End neighborhood where Klaetke also lives with his daughter Ava Detroit and her mom Susan Battista.

Michael Hendrix

IDEO  |  www.ideo.com

Michael Hendrix is a Location Director and Associate Partner at IDEO, a global design and innovation consultancy. In addition to leading the Boston studio he provides guidance for brand strategy on projects ranging from counter-culture apparel to OTC drugs to luxury home goods. Prior to IDEO he served for six years as Chief Brand Officer and Creative Director of Tricycle, Inc., a sustainable design company he co-founded to reduce petroleum use and landfill waste in the commercial flooring industry. Under his direction Tricycle received multiple recognitions for sustainable design and thought leadership from Business Week, the Smithsonian Institute, the Prince of Denmark and the British House of Commons, as well as the professional design associations of AIGA, IIDA, AIA, ASID and IDSA.

His creativity has merited awards from all of the major American graphic design associations and publications including the One Show, Type Directors Club, Print, HOW, and Communication Arts. In 2008 he was named an AIGA Fellow in recognition of significant contributions to the practice of design in his community.

If he's not designing he's playing his vintage guitars and exploring New England with his wife and three children.