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CSAC/Designing Stamps with the USPS – Antonio Alcalá

March 5 @ 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Antonio Alcalá graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in graphic design. He opened Studio A in 1988, winning awards of excellence from design institutions including AIGA, Print, CA, Graphis and GDUSA. He has also judged major competitions for AIGA (50 Books/50 Covers), the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, and the Type Directors Club. Studio A’s clients include the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Kennedy Center, and other museums and arts organizations.

Alcalá has taught design as adjunct faculty at the Corcoran College of Art + Design and in the GDMFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art. He served on the US Postmaster General’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee from 2010 until 2011, when he left to become an art director for the U.S. Postal Service’s stamp development program.

Alcalá’s work and contributions to the field of graphic design were recognized with his selection as a 2008 AIGA DC Fellow and his work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives, the National Postal Museum, and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design.

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Date:
March 5
Time:
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM