Scott Stowell, Graphic Designer
Webpage: http://www.notclosed.com/

Mr. Stowell received a B.F.A. in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990. He is the proprietor of Open, a New York design studio that develops identity systems, print design, motion graphics, and Web design for clients such as the American Museum of the Moving Image, Art:21, EarthAction, Fallon McElligott, MTV, The Nation magazine, Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Trio, and Wieden + Kennedy. Previously he was a senior designer at M&Co and art director of Benetton’s Colors magazine in Rome. His work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Art Directors Club of New York, the Association for Independent Music, Critique, Communication Arts, I.D., Print, the Society of Publication Designers, STEP Inside Design, the Tokyo Typedirectors Club, and the Utne Reader Alternative Press Awards. He has also taught at New York University and Purchase College and recently served as vice president of the New York chapter of the AIGA. Mr. Stowell was appointed to the Yale faculty in 2000 and is currently critic in graphic design.