Anne Quito

Anne Quito is a design reporter and architecture critic based in New York City. A former reporter at Quartz, she is also the founding director of Design Lab, the in-house design team for Family Health International (FHI).[1][2] In 2017, Quito won the inaugural Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). In 2018, a story she co-authored received a silver medal in the Malofiej Infographic Awards.^[citation needed]

Quito is the writer and editor of Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines (Columbia University Press, 2019), a book about the glory days of magazine design as told by graphic design legends Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard. In December 2019, she conducted an extended interview with Glaser and Bernard for the book’s launch at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[3]

She teaches at the School of Visual Arts MFA in Products of Design program[4] and is an editor at large of the podcast Print is Dead, (Long Live Print!).[5]

Education

Quito earned her Master's degree in visual arts from Georgetown University in 2009. She also earned an MFA in design criticism from the School of Visual Arts in 2014.[6] Quito's master's thesis for the SVA, "Designing a Country from Scratch: Nation Branding in South Sudan," explored the politics of creating a national identity, based on research in Switzerland and South Sudan.[7] She presented her findings at the 2014 Design Criticism conference at the School of Visual Arts, and has lectured and been interviewed about that work.[8][9]

Awards and recognition

In 2017, Quito won the inaugural Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).[10] In 2018 her co-authored story about Emmanuel Macron's portrait received a silver medal in the Malofiej Awards.[11] The award honors young design writers who "best exemplify the tradition of prolific writing and boundless curiosity established by Steven Heller."[12] On the occasion of Quito's win, Steven Heller wrote, "I am very proud to have my name connected to design writing, AIGA and Anne, all in one fell swoop."[13]

She won a first prize award at the 2021 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) competition for her investigation into Monotype's acquisition of Hoefler & Co. and the growing monopoly within the font industry. Judges remarked, "The story is illuminating and often funny. Quito’s canny reporting and deft writing won our hearts and minds."[14]

Quito was a commencement speaker at the Parsons School of Design's 2022 graduation ceremonies.[15]

Criticism and journalism

Quito has written for numerous outlets, and has bylines in Quartz, Works That Work, Metropolis, Eye on Design, 99U, Designers and Books, and others.

A selection of her work appears below:

• "WeWork Is Retraining a Generation of Architects to Think in Terms of Data," Metropolis Magazine, February 25, 2019[16]
• "Can This New Alternative to Braille Change the Way Blind People Read?" 99U, April 20, 2018[17]
• "A Guide to Design Book Publishing for the Non-Rich and Non-Famous," 99U, January 16, 2018[18]
• "Return to Maker," Works That Work, No.10[19]
• "Serious Play with Confetti, the World's Most Jubilant Design Studio," Eye On Design, July 16, 2015[20]
• "The 10 Best Architecture and Design Films," Designers and Books, November 21, 2013[21]
• "A Field Guide for the Intrepid Font-Spotter," Designers and Books, October 8, 2013[22]

References

1. "Quartz author page: Anne Quito". Quartz. Quartz. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
2. "Muck Rack profile: Anne Quito". Muck Rack. Muck Rack. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
3. Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard, with Anne Quito: "Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines", retrieved 2022-09-25
4. "Quito Bio". Products of Design. Retrieved 2023-04-28.
5. "Team". Print Is Dead. (Long Live Print!). Retrieved 2023-04-28.
6. "Profile: Anne Quito". Design Observer. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
7. "SVA Alumnus Anne Quito on 'Branding' Switzerland and South Sudan". School of Visual Arts Close-Up (blog). School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
8. "DCrit Conference 2014 schedule: Designing a Country from Scratch: Nation Branding in South Sudan". School of Visual Arts Design Research. School of Visual Arts. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
9. Simon, Scott. "Designing State Symbols For The World's Newest Country". NPR. NPR. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
10. "Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary". AIGA | the professional association for design. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
11. "Malofiej Awards 26 list" (PDF). malofiejgraphics.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-28.
12. "Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary". AIGA Steven Heller Prize. AIGA. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
13. Heller, Steven. "Weekend Heller: Kudos to Anne Quito, Writer Extraordinaire". AIGA. AIGA. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
14. "SABEW 2021 Best of Business Honorees". SABEW. Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Retrieved 7 Aug 2022.
15. "Parsons School of Art, Media, and Technology graduation ceremony". Vimeo. Parsons School of Design I New School. Retrieved 7 Aug 2022.
16. Quito, Anne. "WeWork Is Retraining a Generation of Architects to Think in Terms of Data". Metropolis. Metropolis Magazine. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
17. Quito, Anne. "Can This New Alternative to Braille Change the Way Blind People Read?". 99U. Adobe. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
18. Quito, Anne. "A Guide to Design Book Publishing for the Non-Rich and Non-Famous". 99U. Adobe. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
19. Quito, Anne. "Return to Maker". Works That Work. Works That Work. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
20. Quito, Anne. "Serious Play with Confetti, the World's Most Jubilant Design Studio". Eye On Design. AIGA. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
21. Quito, Anne. "The 10 Best Architecture and Design Films". Designers and Books. Designers and Books. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
22. Quito, Anne. "A Field Guide for the Intrepid Font-Spotter". Designers and Books. Designers and Books. Retrieved 13 March 2019.