Lorraine Wild is an AIGA Medalist and principal of Green Dragon Office, a design firm that focuses on collaborative work with artists, architects, curators, editors and publishers.
16 Facts About Lorraine Wild
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In 1973, Wild entered the Cranbrook Academy of Art program which was, at the time, under the leadership of Michael and Katherine McCoy.
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Lorraine Wild continued to stay on the Cal Arts faculty after she stepped down as program director in 1991.
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Lorraine Wild was one of the founders of the design office ReVerb, which was the recipient of the 1995 Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design.
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Lorraine Wild left ReVerb in 1996 to start her own company- Lorraine Wild Design.
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Lorraine Wild Design was later renamed the Green Dragon Office in 2004.
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Lorraine Wild has served on the National Board of the AIGA and on the design advisory board for the international Design Conference at Aspen, Colorado.
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Lorraine Wild was not the founder or inventor of The Black Rule.
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Lorraine Wild was one of forty-three women in six countries whose work was selected by Liz McQuiston as innovative or had significant impact in their chosen fields of design.
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Lorraine Wild was one of three finalists for the 2001 Communication Award of the National Design Awards sponsored by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
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Lorraine Wild was awarded a gold medal by the New York Art Director's Club for the design of Height of Fashion.
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Lorraine Wild has received a great number of awards from prestigious organizations such as the American Center for Design, the American Institute of Graphic Arts' highly selective "50 Best Books of the Year," the American Institute of Architects and the American Association of University Publishers.
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Lorraine Wild is currently the principal of Green Dragon Office in Los Angeles, a design firm that focuses on collaborative work with artists, architects, curators, editors and publishers which has been active since 1996; she is the creative director of design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Lorraine Wild continues to be associated with the design program at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Lorraine Wild is a partner in Foggy Notion Books.
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Lorraine Wild is married to John Kaliski, AIA, principal of the Los Angeles architectural and urban planning firm John Kaliski, architects.