Rick Landesberg

Rick is principal of Landesberg Design. His work has received awards from AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Communication Arts magazine, Print magazine, the New York Type Directors Club, the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the American Association of Museums, and the University and College Designers Association (UCDA).

Rick has lectured on design issues nationally and abroad, and has judged the Communication Arts Design Annual competition. He was a founder and board member of the Pittsburgh chapter of AIGA, and belongs to the Association of Professional Design Firms (APDF) and the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD). Rick recently re-joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, where he taught previously for 15 years. He serves on the board of Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society (he loves traditional Appalachian music), and he also serves on the communications advisory board of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and the advisory board of Migration Policy Institute. He is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh.

Rick is a 2010 recipient of the AIGA Fellow Award. The Fellow award program is a means of recognizing mature designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter.

Rick received a BFA from University of the Arts, and also holds a Certificate, Advanced Course of Study, from Central St. Martins College of Art, London, England.

Rick with his class at Carnegie Mellon University, 2010