Judges are being finalized for the It’s In the Bag competition. So far we have Mariana Amatullo, Vice President and Director of Designmatters Department? and Julie Lasky, the editor of Change Observer. Read a little more about them below:
Mariana Amatullo is the Vice President and Director, Designmatters Department
She founded the college-wide initiative Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, based in Pasadena, California in 2001 with a task force of faculty, chairs, staff and students. In her capacity as the lead of the program, she develops strategic educational partnerships and oversees a portfolio of research collaborations, communication campaigns, exhibitions and publications that enhance Art Center’s commitment to be at the forefront of international design education and contribute solutions to humanitarian issues of critical urgency. Through her leadership, Art Center is the first design institution to be formally affiliated with the Department of Public Information at the United Nations as a non-governmental organization (NGO); and a civil society organization member with the Organization of American States (OAS/OEA). The award-winning and tangible outcomes of the student projects that are developed under the mantle of Designmatters have established the program as an exemplary effort within the landscape of social impact design–uniting educational objectives with highly effective advocacy and action-oriented outcomes.
Amatullo serves on a variety of advisory boards and networks engaged in the arts, design education and social activism, including Design 21 (in partnership with UNESCO) and Intelligent Mobility International (IMI); she is a founding member of the University of Southern California International Museum Institute and was part of the editorial committee for Beyond the Turnstile: Making the case for Museums and Sustainable Values (Altamira Press, forthcoming publication 2009).
Prior to joining Art Center in 2000, Amatullo pursued a variety of research and curatorial projects and held positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1992-1996) and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1991). Mariana holds an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California (1994) and a Licence en Lettres Degree from the Sorbonne University, Paris (1989). Her undergraduate studies included two years at l’Ecole du Louvre, Paris. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and brought up internationally through the Argentine diplomatic corps, Amatullo lives in Pasadena with her husband and two boys.
Julie Lasky is editor of Change Observer. She was previously editor-in-chief of I.D. and Interiors, and managing editor of Print. Lasky has contributed to The New York Times, Metropolis, Dwell, Eye, Slate and NPR.
She is the author of two books: Borrowed Design: Use and Abuse of Historical Form (written with Steven Heller) (Van Nostrand Reinhold) and Some People Can’t Surf: The Graphic Design of Art Chantry (Chronicle Books). Her essays have been published in the books Bridge: The Architecture of Connection (August/Birkhauser), &Fork: 100 Designers, 10 Curators, 10 Good Designs (Phaidon Press), Households (Monacelli Press), Dish: International Design for the Home (Princeton Architectural Press), and the forthcoming The Innovators (Thames & Hudson). Honors include a National Arts Journalism Program Fellowship at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Richard J. Margolis award for writings on the cultural life of postwar Sarajevo.
A frequent lecturer on design, Lasky has taught in the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts and recently joined the MFA Design Criticism faculty at SVA. She was a juror for the 2006 Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing and Criticism.
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