Elizabeth Resnick is a Professor Emerita and former chair of Graphic Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts. She earned her B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.
Professor Emerita Resnick is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions: Within/Without: The Art of Russell Mills with Teresa Flavin (1991); Dutch Graphic Design: 1918–1945 with Alston Purvis (1994); The Art of the Poster: Makoto Saito with Jan Kubasiewicz (1999); The Graphic Imperative: International Posters of Peace, Social Justice and The Environment 1965–2005 with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman (2005); Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010 with Javier Cortés (2010); Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age: 2001–2012 (2012), and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination (2016), investigates gender-based inequalities deeply entrenched in every global society.
Professor Emerita Resnick has led poster workshops and lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Ireland, England, China, South Korea, Iceland, Poland, and Bolivia. Her posters have been displayed in the Warsaw Poster Biennial, Bolivian Poster Biennial, and BICM Mexican Poster Biennial and included in many International invitational exhibitions.
Her books include The Social Design Reader, Bloomsbury Visual Arts (2019), Developing Citizen Designers, Bloomsbury Academic (2016), Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics, John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003), and Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication, Prentice-Hall Publications (1984), as well as catalogs for the poster exhibition mentioned above. She has published illustrated articles and interviews with influential designers and educators for EYE Magazine (UK) Grafik Magazine (UK), tipoGrafica (Argentina), AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (US), Graphis (US), and others. Women Graphic Designers, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, will be published in 2025.
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