Sarah Speare has leadership experience as a non-profit executive, entrepreneur and designer for social change. Sarah was the Executive Director of SEGD from 1985-1995.
Roger Whitehouse, FSEGD, ARIBA, AADipl, was trained as an architect in England before coming to the United States in 1967. He formed Whitehouse & Company in 1976. His environmental graphic design projects include the High Museum in Atlanta, Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Conde Nast building, and three subway entrances in New York's Times Square.
Ann Dudrow received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design with a major in Illustration. After an influential year in Rome, she migrated to New York and Baltimore, finally landing in California.
Lance Wyman is considered to be one of the most influential graphic designers of our time, and is credited with helping to define the field of environmental graphic design. He founded Lance Wyman Ltd. in 1979 and has focused his work primarily on branding/wayfinding systems for public environments.
Deborah Sussman is recognized as a pioneer in environmental graphic design. She is internationally renowned for creating arresting visual imagery and designing its highly imaginative applications for architectural and public spaces. Her passion for the marriage of graphics and the built environment, fueled by her early career at the Eames Office, has led to collaborations with planners, architects, and clients.
Paul Arthur (1924–2001) was surely the most important Canadian designer never to have any actual design education. Born in 1924, he graduated from the University of Toronto in English literature.
SEGD Founder, Past President from 1986-1987 and a 1987 SEGD Fellow
James Lafferty Glass, a founder of SEGD and the Kelvin Group creative community in Houston, died April 15, 2010 of heart and diabetes complications.
Glass was one of the three designers who met on July 3, 1973, to compare notes on the growing importance of “architectural signage,” and ultimately created a new field of design.
Richard guided the growth of the GNU Group through its first two decades. He now serves as a senior adviser and project participant in brand development, marketing strategy and design.
