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SCOTT SANTORO
Adjunct Instructor
The Museum of Modern Art's A+D Circle: Trademark and brochure announcement.
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Scott Santoro is co-principal of the graphic design studio Worksight. In a live-and-work loft on Great Jones Street (in the NOHO section of Manhattan), both he and his wife, Emily, have been crafting out designs for large and small companies for over sixteen years.
Scott received a BFA in graphic design from Pratt Institute. His early employment included work as a visual identity designer at Landor Associates, and senior designer of internal promotions at Mobil Oil Corporation. In 1986 he returned to graduate school to attain an MFA at the prestigious, and somewhat notorious, Cranbrook Academy of Art. His experimental work at Cranbrook contributed to the challenge being made to the design establishment—to rethink the boundaries of graphic design (see "Cranbrook: The New Discourse" by Rizzoli publishers).
Worksight has developed brand and identity strategies for a variety of corporate clients such as ADP, MoMA, Steelcase, and for non-profit clients such as The Brooklyn Business Library and the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault.
Articles about Worksight have been included in publications: 2 + 3 D (Poland), DesignNET Magazine (Korea), Etapes Graphiques (France), Graphics International (England), ID Magazine (USA), Plus Eighty One (Japan), Art and Design Magazine (Beijing), and Print Magazine (USA). Worksight has also been included in books on design: PBC International, Rockport, Rizzoli and Watson Guptill. Worksight has won awards from: AIGA, ACD, NY Bookbinders Guild, and Print Magazine.
Scott has served as both treasurer and vice-president of the New York chapter of the AIGA, and stays active within the design community. He has presented his work as part of the AIGANY Fresh Dialog series, the US Color Marketing Group, various AIGA chapters, and educational institutions throughout the country and abroad. In 2001 he was the Australian Graphic Design Association's "international speaker," and gave a presentation about his personal and public work through seven cities there. In 2002 he gave a presentation about Psychedelic Art as part of the Hood Museum of Art's exhibit at Dartmouth College.
Both Scott and Emily teach graphic design at an undergraduate level: at the Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, NYU and Queens College, and are also in the process of writing a textbook for PrenticeHall Publishers. They have two young sons and like to say that they "live above the store."
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