Frank Newfeld

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Frank Newfeld CM RCA is a book designer, illustrator, art director and educator.

Newfeld is arguably the greatest book designer of the 20th century in Canada. He has designed over 650 books and won more than 170 international awards. He is a former Vice-President of Publishing at McClelland & Stewart, Head of the Illustration Program at Sheridan College and Co-founder/President of the Society of Typographic Designers of Canada (now Design Professionals of Canada).

He is a Fellow of Design Professionals of Canada and a Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2015, Newfeld was appointed to the Order of Canada.

Newfeld has created three children’s books, two of them published by Oxford University Press and one by Groundwood Books (Douglas & McIntyre). In 2008 his book Drawing on Type was published by Porcupine's Quill. He is also known for illustrating the children's book Alligator Pie .