About the Author

Ellen Shapiro has been president of Shapiro Design Associates for more than twenty-five years. She is Senior Seminar professor at Purchase College, SUNY, and a master class instructor at the University of Baltimore. The author of Clients and Designers (Watson-Guptill) and contributor to Design Culture and Looking Closer 2 (both published by Allworth Press), she has contributed more than 70 articles to design magazines. She lives in Irvington, NY