Louise Sandhaus

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Louise Sandhaus
Born1955 (age 68–69)
Alma mater California Institute of the Arts
Known for Graphic design
Website lsd-studio.net

Louise Sandhaus (born 1955) is an American graphic designer and design educator. She is a professor at the California Institute of the Arts and is the principal of Louise Sandhaus Design.

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Early life and education

Louise Sandhouse was born in 1955 outside of Boston, Massachusetts to Norman, an art director, and Harriet Sandhaus, a newspaper columnist. The family later relocated to Orlando, Florida. [1]

Sandhaus received an associate degree in advertising design from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in 1976. [2] Under Muriel Cooper, the first design director, she worked for MIT Press in Boston in the 1980s. [2] [1] She earned her BFA and MFA in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 1993 and 1994. She received a Graduate Laureate from the Jan Van Eyck Academie in The Netherlands in 1996. [3]

Career

Sandhaus founded her design studio, Louise Sandhaus Design (LSD), in 1998. She was the co-director of the CalArts Graphic Design Program from 1998 to 2004 and was the program's sole director from 2004 to 2006. [3]

Since 1999, Sandhaus has collaborated with the architecture firm Durfee Regn as Durfee Regn Sandhaus. The collective has designed museum exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects. [4] Her work is included in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection [5] and the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. She co-curated the Graphic Design section of the 2010 California Design Biennial Action/Reaction. [6]

Sandhaus received the AIGA Los Angeles Fellow Award in 2009 [7] and served on the organization's national board from 2009 to 2011. [8] She is currently working with AIGA on Making History, a national initiative to build and preserve graphic design history through crowd-sourcing and utilizing a digital platform/tool. [9]

Sandhaus's book on West Coast design history, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986 was inspired by English architectural historian Reyner Banham. [10] The book received exceptional press coverage including reviews from The New York Times, [11] The Guardian (London), [12] The Los Angeles Review of Books, [13] and Eye magazine. [14] An exhibition including page spreads of the proposed book was held at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 2008. [15]

In 2022, she was awarded the AIGA Medal for her work as an educator and author. [1]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "2022 AIGA Medalist: Louise Sandhaus | AIGA". www.aiga.org. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  2. 1 2 Heller, Steven; Womack, David (2011). "Controlling and Manipulating Space". Becoming a Digital Designer. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 318–319. ISBN   978-1-118-03421-7.
  3. 1 2 Gomez-Palacio, Bryony; Vit, Armin (2008). "Louise Sandhaus". Women Of Design: Influence And Inspiration From The Original Trailblazers To The New Groundbreakers. HOW Books. pp. 112–113. ISBN   978-1-60061-085-1.
  4. ↑ Baer, Kim (2010). "Envisioning the Wide Open West". Information Design Workbook. Rockport Publishers. pp. 208–210. ISBN   978-1-59253-627-6.
  5. ↑ Teaching Graphic Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs. New York: Allworth Press. 2003. ISBN   978-1-58115-966-0.
  6. ↑ Hart, Hugh (July 25, 2010). "California Design Biennial: Action/Reaction". Los Angeles Times.
  7. ↑ "Fellow Award". AIGA Los Angeles. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  8. ↑ "AIGA welcomes new members to its national board of directors". AIGA. July 1, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Louise Sandhaus". California Institute of the Arts. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  10. ↑ "Louise Sandhaus". Vimeo. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  11. ↑ Lange, Alexandra (2014-12-24). "Graphic Design That Encapsulates the Golden State". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  12. ↑ Jones, Corinne (2015-01-10). "The best Californian graphic designs, 1936-1986 – in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  13. ↑ "A Dinner Party That Serves Only Desserts - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  14. ↑ "Eye Magazine | Review | California is a state of mind". www.eyemagazine.com. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
  15. ↑ Hart, Hugh (June 22, 2008). "Louise Sandhaus digs into California graphic design history at L.A.'s Municipal Art Gallery". Los Angeles Times.

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