11 Facts About Edwin Schlossberg

Edwin Arthur Schlossberg was born on July 19,1945 and is an American designer, artist, and author.

Edwin Arthur Schlossberg was born on July 19,1945 in New York City to Alfred Schlossberg and Mae Hirsch and grew up in an extended Orthodox Jewish family.

Edwin Schlossberg's father was founder and president of a textile-manufacturing company and was president of the Park East Synagogue in New York's Upper East Side where Schlossberg studied Hebrew and celebrated his Bar Mitzvah.

Edwin Schlossberg graduated from Manhattan's Birch Wathen School then took his undergraduate and post-graduate education at Columbia University eventually earning a Ph.

Edwin Schlossberg's thesis, which was later published as a book, was an imaginary conversation between Albert Einstein and Samuel Beckett, an idea that Schlossberg conceived while napping at Columbia's philosophy library.

Edwin Schlossberg developed as an artist during the 1960s in New York.

Edwin Schlossberg's style has been described as usage of words and image, through unconventional media, to create visual poetry in his art.

Edwin Schlossberg has been singled out as a "leader in interactive design" by Wired magazine, and has been called a Renaissance man, an intellectual jack-of-all-trades, and the grandmaster of interactivity by several publications.

Edwin Schlossberg has authored eleven books and has lectured at Columbia, the School of the Visual Arts, and the Rhode Island School of Design.

Edwin Schlossberg's artworks have appeared in solo exhibitions and museum collections in the United States and around the world.

Edwin Schlossberg was named fellow by the Society for Experiential Graphic Design in 2020.