Carin Goldberg, USA

AGI member since 1998

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Carin Goldberg was born in New York City and graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art in 1975.
She began her career as a staff designer at CBS Television, CBS Records and Atlantic Records before establishing her own firm in 1982. Her image making expanded to book jacket design, publication design, brand consulting, editorial illustration, authorship/curation, and poster design. Carin has taught Typography, Senior Portfolio Thesis, Design History and Editorial Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since 1982. In 2014 Carin won the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize for Design and spent six-months at The American Academy in Rome reinventing her work and her creative
trajectory.

Design work by Carin Goldberg


    Carin Goldberg, USA (1998)

    Carin Goldberg, USA (1998)

    Carin Goldberg was born in New York City and graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art in 1975.
    She began her career as a staff designer at CBS Television, CBS Records and Atlantic Records before establishing her own firm in 1982. Her image making expanded to book jacket design, publication design, brand consulting, editorial illustration, authorship/curation, and poster design. Carin has taught Typography, Senior Portfolio Thesis, Design History and Editorial Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City since 1982. In 2014 Carin won the Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize for Design and spent six-months at The American Academy in Rome reinventing her work and her creative
    trajectory.

    Publications

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    The Hand of The Graphic Design

    (2011)

    • Moleskin

    Fondo Ambiente Italiano

    Un Sedicesimo 14a

    (2010)

    • Carin Goldberg

    Corraini

    Hall of Femmes: Carin Goldberg

    (2010)

    • Hjärta Smärta

    Oyster Press

    Masters of Design: Corporate Brochures: A Collection of the Most Inspiring Corporate Communications Designers in the World

    (2009)

    • Sean Adams

    Rockport Press

    Design Referenced

    (2009)

    • Armin Vit,
    • Bryony Gomez-Palacio

    Rockport Press

    Women of Design

    (2008)

    • Armin Vit,
    • Bryony Gomez-Palacio

    How Books

    100 Habits of Successful Publication Designers

    (2008)

    • Laurel Saville

    Rockport Press

    AGI: Graphic Design Since 1950

    (2007)

    • Ben Bos,
    • Elly Bos

    Thames and Hudson

    How to Think Like A Great Graphic Designer

    (2007)

    • Debbie Millman

    Allworth Press

    The Selected Works of Global Top Designers

    (2007)

    • Alain Le Quernec,
    • Alan Peckolick,
    • Ben Faydherbe,
    • Angus Hyland

    Designers League (China)

    The Ultimate Graphic Element Collection

    (2007)

    • Xu Guiying

    Page One Publishing Private

    By Its Cover: Modern American Book Cover Design

    (2005)

    • Ned Drew,
    • Paul Sternberger

    Princeton Architectural Press

    No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism

    (2003)

    • Rick Poynor

    London: Laurence King Publishing / New Haven: Yale University Press

    American Modernism: Graphic Design, 1920 to 1960

    (2003)

    • Roger R. Remington,

    New Haven: Yale University Press

    Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference

    (2000)

    • Pat Kirkham

    New York: The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture / New Haven: Yale University Press

    Typography: When Who How

    (1998)

    • Friedrich Friedl,
    • Nicolaus Ott,
    • Bernard Stein

    Cologne, Germany: Könemann Verlags

    A History of Graphic Design, 3rd Edition

    (1998)

    • Phillip B. Meggs

    New York: John Wiley & Sons

    Who’s Who in Graphic Design

    (1995)

    Zürich: Benteli-Werd Verlags AG

    Type & Image: The Language of Graphic Design

    (1989)

    • Phillip B. Meggs

    New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold

    Exhibitions

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    Study Abroad; Artist as Immigrant

    2015

    Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount College, New York

    Milk Revolution/ Cinque Mostre

    2015

    The American Academy, Rome

    Image of The Studio: A Portrait of New York City Graphic Design

    2013

    Herb Lubalin Study Center, The Cooper Union, New York

    "American Dream: Dans I'Atelier de Carin Goldberg, New York"

    2010

    Centre du Graphisme, Musée Géo-Charles, Échirolles

    Benchmarks: Seven Women in Design Center Gallery

    2011

    Fordham University Lincoln Center, Bronx

    The School of Visual Arts, Subway Poster/Billboard

    2010

    200 subway stations New York City-wide, New York

    "Women in Design" TCC Visual Arts Center

    2010

    Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth

    "Trigger: Projects Initiated by Graphic Designers"

    2005

    Fordham University, Bronx

    "Superwoman: Hong Kong Poster League Episode II

    2002

    Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong

    "Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture"

    1996

    Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York

    "Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History"

    1989

    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

    Selected work archived; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

    Selected work archived; The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, USA

    Selected work archived; The Lubalin Study Center, The Cooper Union, New York, USA

    Education

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    Professor

    • Undergraduate

    1983 – today

    • The School of Visual Arts (New York)

    Typography, Senior Portfolio Thesis, Design History and Editorial Design at the School of Visual Arts.

    Awards

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    • 2014

    Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize for Design
    • 2012

    Augustus Saint-Gaudens Medal
    • 2012

    The Cooper Union President's Citation
    • 2012

    The Cooper Union Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award for Art
    • 2009

    AIGA Gold Medal
    • 2008

    Art Director's Club Grandmasters Award for Excellence in Education
    • 2006

    Gold Pencil, The One Club
    • 2006

    AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers
    • 1994

    Silver Medal, Art Directors Club
    • 1993

    Literary Marketplace Award

    Other Professional Activities

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    • Alliance Graphique International - Board Member

      2006 – 2009

    • New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts - President

      2006 – 2008

    • New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts - Board Member

      2002 – 2004