Graphic Design Foundations: Layout and Composition

Sean Adams is the Chair, Undergraduate and Graduate Graphic Design at ArtCenter College of Design, founder of Burning Settlers Cabin, author of multiple magazine columns, on-screen author for LinkedIn Learning, and serves on the editorial board of Design Observer. His recent books, How Design Makes Us Think (Princeton Architectural Press) and The Designer's Dictionary of Color (Abrams) are international best-sellers. He is the only two-term AIGA national president in the organization’s history. Adams also served on the AIGA national board for three terms and was AIGA Los Angeles president. In 2014, Adams was awarded the AIGA Medal, the highest honor in the profession. He is an AIGA Fellow, and Aspen Design Institute Fellow. He has been recognized by every major competition and publication including; Print, Step, Communication Arts, Graphis AIGA, The Type Directors Club, The British Art Director’s Club, and the New York Art Director’s Club. Adams and AdamsMorioka have been exhibited often, including a solo exhibition at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been cited as one of the forty most important people shaping design internationally in the ID40, and one of the top ten influential designers in the United States. Previously, Adams was a founding partner at AdamsMorioka, whose clients included The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Disney, Mohawk Fine Papers, The Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Richard Meier & Partners, Sundance, and the University of Southern California. https://www.seanadams.design