Warren Lehrer is a NY-based designer and writer known internationally as a pioneer of visual literature and design authorship. His work is acclaimed for its marriage of writing and typography, capturing the shape of thought and speech, and reuniting oral and pictorial traditions of storytelling in books, animations and performance. Honors include Center for Book Arts Honoree, Ladislav Sutnar Prize Laureate, Brendan Gill Prize, three AIGA Book Awards, NEA Fellow, grants from Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. Lehrer is a founding faculty member of SVA’s Designer As Author/Entrepreneur MFA program and co-founder of EarSay, a non-profit arts organization in Queens, NY.