John J. Custer is a born-n-bred Texas designer, and illustrator turned principal and founder of a very Dandy creative studio. Based in New York City, he focuses on developing optimistic and blunt solutions—with a dash of wit, for people, places, and things that give a damn.

With over 300 awards of excellence, she has

been recognized by virtually every organization

in the field of visual communication. She is the

recipient of design’s most honored awards:

the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

National Design Award and the AIGA Medal.

Her work has been published extensively, most

notably in Meggs’ History of Graphic Design.

Clients include Levi Strauss, Herman Miller,

Stanford University, SculptureCenter, and Design

Within Reach. Her work is part of many permanent

museum collections including the Museum of

Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the San Francisco

Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) and the

Smithsonian Museum. She has been honored with

solo design exhibitions at the SFMoMA and the

DDD Gallery in Japan.

She served on the National Board of Directors of

AIGA, is on the Accessions Board for Architecture

and Design at SFMoMA, and has been judging the

Webby Awards for over a decade.