Marcia Lausen (born 1959) [1] is an American graphic designer and educator. She is a professor and former director of the School of Design at the University of Illinois (UIC) in Chicago, [2] and co-founder of design firm Studio/lab. [3] [4] Lausen was awarded 2015 AIGA Medal for her academic leadership and significant contributions to American graphic design. [1] [5]
Lausen was born and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1981. [1] [2] [6] She graduated from the Yale School of Art with a Master's degree in 1985, where she studied under Paul Rand. [1]
Lausen is the author of Design for Democracy: Ballot and Election Design, published in 2007. [7] The book examines techniques to improve the graphic design of butterfly ballot that led to the highly publicized Florida vote recount in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. [8] [9] [10] In collaboration with American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Lausen led initiatives to redesign ballots in Cook County, Illinois [11] and the state of Oregon. [12] [13] [14] A copy of the book is held in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago museum. [8] Lausen lives in Chicago and is a former president of the Chicago chapter of AIGA. [11]
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