Thumbnail image of the cover of Shirin-Neshat: Facing History for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Thumbnail image of a cover of Fast Fashion Slow Art for Bowdoin College Museum of Art Thumbnail image of a cover of the National Women of the Arts Magazine Thumbnail image of the cover of Yoga: The Art of Transformation exhibition catalogue for the Freer  +  Sackler Galleries Thumbnail image of the exhibition graphics for Modernism A Chronology 1914–1939 for the Corcoran Gallery of Art Thumbnail image of the cover from the Hide/Seek exhibition catalogue for the National Portrait Gallery Thumbnail image of the cover from the Infinite Variety catalogue for the Folger Shakespeare Library Thumbnail image of the cover of Xavier Veilhan for the Phillips Collection Thumbnail image of exhibition graphics for American Letterpress for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service Thumbnail image of the from the 2017 annual report for the Smithsonian Institution Thumbnail image of the cover of Jean-Antoine Houdon catalogue for the National Gallery of Art Thumbnail image of the cover of Glass: Sand | Ash | Heat for the New Orleans Museum of Art Thumbnail image of the cover of the African Apparel catalogue for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum Thumbnail image of the cover of Jay Matternes' Visions of Lost Worlds for the National Museum of Natural History Thumbnail image of the cover for Rob Barnard for the Crocker Art Museum Thumbnail image of the Textile Museum Journal cover for the Textile Museum Thumbnail image of one of the identities for the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum Thumbnail image of the cover of Harlem Heroes for the Smithsonian American Art Museum Thumbnail image of exhibition graphics for The 1847s: America's First Stamps for the National Postal Museum Thumbnail image of the cover of the 2017 Annual Report for the National Museum of African American History and Culture Thumbnail image of the cover from the Deadly Medicine catalogue for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Thumbnail image of the cover of Magnificent Intentions for the Library of Congress Thumbnail image of the cover of the Treasures of Heaven catalogue for the Walters Art Museum Thumbnail image of the cover of Ginny Ruffner for the Renwick Gallery Thumbnail image of the cover of Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things for the National Museum of American History Thumbnail image of the cover of Revealing Ancestral Central America for the National Museum of the American Indian Thumbnail image from the Scrap Yard exhibition for the Jewish Museum of Maryland Thumbnail image of the cover from the Smithsonian Civil War catalogue for Smithsonian Books Thumbnail image of Judy Chicago: New Views Thumbnail image of the cover of Quanta of Space for the Figge Art Museum Thumbnail image of Paul and Bunny Mellon: A Visual Biography Thumbnail image of Judy Chicago: New Views Thumbnail image of the exhibition American Stories, American Stamps at Northern Virginia Community College Thumbnail image of the cover from the Tijuana, Mexico catalogue for Art in Embassies Thumbnail image of the Rill Architects website Thumbnail image of the cover of an Athenaeum brochure for the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association fearturing the visual identity Thumbnail image of the cover of the 2018 annual report for The Kennedy Center Thumbnail image of Quiet Beauty for Art Services International Thumbnail image of the cover of Portraiture: On the Job by Philip Bermingham Thumbnail image of the cover from the Freya Grand: Minding the Landscape catalogue for Freya Grand Thumbnail image from the invitation/book for the Design Legends Gala for the American Institute of Graphic Arts Thumbnail image of the Cromley Row website Thumbnail image of the cover from the Itchiku Kubota catalogue for the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA Thumbnail image of the cover of the catalogue for Process and Innovation for the Hand Print Workshop International Thumbnail image of the cover of the Writing on Hands catalogue for Dickinson College Thumbnail image of the cover of One Splendid Season by Phil Rosenzweig Thumbnail image of the cover of the catalogue for Living Legacy for American University Thumbnail image of the cover of Dario Zucchi at 80 Thumbnail image of the cover of the Tapestries catalogue for the Trust for Museum Exhibitions Thumbnail image of the cover of the catalogue Abraham Manievich for the Pensler Gallery Thumbnail image of the cover of St. Bride's Farm Sculpture Collection for St. Bride's Farm Thumbnail image of the Raven Story stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Message Monsters stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Day of the Dead or Dias de los Muertos stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Hip Hop stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Lunar New Year: Year of the Dragon stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Hearts Blossom stamps for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Holiday Delights stamps for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Views of the Planets stamps for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of a detail from the Waves of Color stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Underground Railroad stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Musical Icons: Janis Joplin stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Total Solar Eclipse stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Martín Ramírez stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Kaleidoscope Flowers stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Harvey Milk stamp for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the Love Forever Hearts stamps for the United States Postal Service Thumbnail image of the AARP Video How Stamps Get Designed

Museums

Catalogue
Shirin Neshat: Facing History
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Catalogue
Fast Fashion Slow Art
Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Magazine
Women in the Arts
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Catalogue/App
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
Freer + Sackler Galleries

Exhibition Graphics
Modernism: A Chronology 1914 to 1939
Corcoran College of Art + Design

Catalogue
Hide/Seek
National Portrait Gallery

Book
Infinite Variety
Folger Shakespeare Library

Catalogue
Xavier Veilhan
The Phillips Collection

Exhibition
American Letterpress
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Annual Report
2017 Annual Report
Smithsonian Institution

Catalogue
Jean Antoine Houdon
National Gallery of Art

Catalogue
Glass: Sand | Ash | Heat
New Orleans Museum of Art

Catalogue
African Apparel
Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Book
Visions of Lost Worlds
National Museum of Natural History

Catalogue
Rob Barnard
Crocker Art Museum

Journal
The Textile Museum Journal
Textile Museum

Exhibition Identities
Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum

Catalogue
Harlem Heroes
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Exhibition
The 1847s: America's First Stamps
National Postal Museum

Annual Report
2017 Annual Report
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Catalogue
Deadly Medicine
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Exhibition
Magnificent Intentions
Library of Congress

Catalogue
Treasures of Heaven
Walters Art Museum

Catalogue
Ginny Ruffner
Renwick Gallery

Book
Discovery and Revelation
National Museum of American History

Catalogue
Revealing Ancestral Central America
National Museum of the American Indian

Exhibition
Scrap Yard
Jewish Museum of Maryland

Book
Smithsonian Civil War
Smithsonian Books

Catalogue
Quanta of Space
Figge Art Musuem
Thumbnail image of the cover of Shirin-Neshat: Facing History for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Catalogue
Shirin Neshat: Facing History
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Thumbnail image of the cover of Fast Fashion Slow Art for Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Catalogue
Fast Fashion Slow Art
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Thumbnail image of a cover of the National Women of the Arts Magazine

Magazine
Women in the Arts
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Thumbnail image of the cover of Yoga: The Art of Transformation exhibition catalogue for the Freer  +  Sackler Galleries

Catalogue/App
Yoga: The Art of Transformation
Freer + Sackler Galleries
Thumbnail image of the exhibition graphics for Modernism A Chronology 1914–1939 for the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition Graphics
Modernism: A Chronology 1914–1939
Corcoran College of Art + Design
Thumbnail image of the cover from the Hide/Seek exhibition catalogue for the National Portrait Gallery

Catalogue
Hide/Seek
National Portrait Gallery
Thumbnail image of the cover from the Infinite Variety catalogue for the Folger Shakespeare Library

Book
Infinite Variety
Folger Shakespeare Library
Thumbnail image of the cover of Xavier Veilhan for the Phillips Collection

Catalogue
Xavier Veilhan
The Phillips Collection
Thumbnail image of exhibition graphics for American Letterpress for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service

Exhibition
American Letterpress
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
Thumbnail image of the from the 2016 annual report for the Smithsonian Institution

Annual Report
2017 Annual Report
Smithsonian Institution
Thumbnail image of the cover of Jean-Antoine Houdon catalogue for the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue
Jean Antoine Houdon
National Gallery of Art
Thumbnail image of the cover of Glass: Sand | Ash | Heat for the New Orleans Museum of Art

Catalogue
Glass: Sand | Ash | Heat
New Orleans Museum of Art
Thumbnail image of the cover African Apparel for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Catalogue
African Apparel
Cornell Fine Arts Museum
Thumbnail image of the cover Jay Matternes' Visions of Lost Worlds for the National Museum of Natural History

Book
Visions of Lost Worlds
National Museum of Natural History
Thumbnail image of the cover for Rob Barnard for the Crocker Art Museum

Catalogue
Rob Barnard
Crocker Art Museum

Thumbnail image of exhibition graphics of the Textile Museum Journal cover for the Textile Museum

Journal
The Textile Museum Journal
Textile Museum
Thumbnail image of one of the identities for the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum

Exhibition Identities
Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection
George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum
Thumbnail image of the cover of Harlem Heroes for the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Catalogue
Harlem Heroes
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Thumbnail image of exhibition graphics for The 1847s: America's First Stamps for the National Postal Museum

Exhibition
The 1847s: America's First Stamps
National Postal Museum
Thumbnail image of the cover of the 2017 Annual Report for the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Annual Report
2017 Annual Report
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Thumbnail image of the cover from the Deadly Medicine catalogue for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Catalogue
Deadly Medicine
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Thumbnail image of the cover of Magnificent Intentions for the Library of Congress

Exhibition
Magnificent Intentions
Library of Congress
Thumbnail image of the cover of the Treasures of Heaven catalogue for the Walters Art Museum

Catalogue
Treasures of Heaven
Walters Art Museum
Thumbnail image of the cover of Ginny Ruffner for the Renwick Gallery

Catalogue
Ginny Ruffner
Renwick Gallery
Thumbnail image of the cover of Discovery and Revelation: Religion, Science, and Making Sense of Things for the National Museum of American History

Book
Discovery and Revelation
National Museum of American History
Thumbnail image of the cover of Revealing Ancestral Central America for the National Museum of the American Indian

Catalogue
Revealing Ancestral Central America
National Museum of the American Indian
Thumbnail image of the Scrap Yard exhibition for the Jewish Museum of Maryland

Exhibition
Scrap Yard
Jewish Museum of Maryland
Thumbnail image of the cover from the Smithsonian Civil War catalogue for Smithsonian Books

Book
Smithsonian Civil War
Smithsonian Books
Thumbnail image of the cover of Quanta of Space for the Figge Art Museum

Book
Smithsonian Civil War
Smithsonian Books

Arts / Non-Museums

Book
Paul and Bunny Mellon: A Visual Biography
Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Catalogue
Judy Chicago
Scala Arts Publishers

Exhibition
American Stories, American Stamps
Northern Virginia Community College

Catalogue
Tijuana, Mexico
Art In Embassies

Website
Rill Architects
Rill Architects

Visual Identity
Athenaeum
Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association

Annual Report
2018 Annual Report
The Kennedy Center

Catalogue
Quiet Beauty
Art Services International

Book
Portraiture: On the Job
Philip Bermingham

Catalogue
Freya Grand: Minding the Landscape
Freya Grand

Invitation/Book
Design Legends Gala
AIGA

Website
Cromley Row
Cromley Row

Catalogue
Itchiku Kubota
Sasakawa Peace Foundation, USA

Catalogue
Process and Innovation
Hand Print Workshop International

Catalogue
Writing on Hands

Dickinson College

Book
One Splendid Season
Phil Rosenzweig

Catalogue
Living Legacy
American University

Catalog
Dario Zucchi at 80
Dario Zucchi

Catalogue
Tapestries
Trust for Museum Exhibitions

Catalogue
Abraham Manievich
Pensler Art Gallery

Book
St. Bride's Farm Sculpture Collection
St. Bride's Farm
Thumbnail image of the cover of Paul and Bunny Mellon: A Visual Biography

Book
Paul and Bunny Mellon: A Visual Biography
Oak Spring Garden Foundation
Thumbnail image of the cover of Judy Chicago for Scala Arts Publishers

Catalogue
Judy Chicago
Scala Arts Publishers
Thumbnail image of the exhibition American Stories, American Stamps at the Northern Virginia Community College

Exhibition
American Stories, American Stamps
Northern Virginia Community College

Profiles

Antonio Alcalá
Antonio Alcalá graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in graphic design opening Studio A in 1988. Since then his studio has won awards of excellence in design from local, national and international design institutions including AIGA, Print, Communication Arts and Graphis. His clients include: the National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Postal Museum, The Phillips Collection, The Textile Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. Alcalá is an adjunct faculty member of MICA’s MFA graphic design program and is also responsible for the design of US postage stamps as an art director for the United States Postal Service. In 2011, Alcalá was nominated for two National Design Awards from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives, the National Postal Museum, and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design.
Maribel O. Gray
Dr. Maribel O. Gray entered the field of graphic design as a second career. She graduated with a BFA in graphic design from the Corcoran College of Art + Design and joined Studio A in 2013. From 2013–2016, she was also an adjunct faculty member at the Corcoran. Prior to becoming a designer, she worked as an attending emergency physician at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. She obtained her BA in chemistry at Goucher College, MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, MPH in international health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and completed residency training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. Although her primary interests are web design, user experience, and user interaction design, Maribel is also a printmaker whose work has been included in several juried exhibitions.
Helen McNiell
Helen McNiell hails from a small Tennessee town near the Smoky Mountains. Growing up as the daughter of a college history professor and a public school administrator, she dreamed of being an author and illustrator of children’s books. McNiell graduated from the Atlanta College of Art at the High Museum (now SCAD) with a BFA in graphic design. After working for Time-Life, Helen joined Studio A as a Partner in 1998. She enjoys publication, book, and exhibition design because the process is like assembling a giant puzzle and the subject matter tends to be so interesting. Helen lives in Old Town, Alexandria with her husband, two daughters, and two cats.
Marti Davila
Marti has a BFA in graphic design from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She began her career at Studio A as a summer intern, and then as a full-time designer upon graduation. She developed a love for beautiful typography and book design at Studio A, and then continued refining her craft as an art director at various studios in the DC design community. Twenty years later, she is back at Studio A doing what she loves. When she is not being creative, she likes going to ‘80s New Wave concerts with her husband and enjoys hanging out with their three Boston Terriers.

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