Owner, Creative Director at Adnauseum

Christian Acker

New York, NY

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About

Less pop. More culture.
Education
- BFA, with Honors Communication Design
  
  Parsons School of Design
  
  1997 - 2002
Experience
- Owner, Creative Director
  
  Adnauseum, Inc.
  
  May 2010 - Present (16 years 1 month)
  
  Select clients include: Obey Clothing, ESPN, Complex Magazine, Nike, Under Armour, adidas, Puma, Zoo York, Ecko Unltd, Marc Ecko Collection, Avirex, Tapout, 5 Boro Skateboards, Upper Playground, R/GA, Oxford University Press, The New York Times, Northwestern University Press, Kelso Beer, Loser Machine, Sufjan Stevens, Trukfit and Arnette Sunglasses.
- Owner, Principal Designer
  
  Handselecta
  
  May 2003 - Present (23 years 1 month)
  
  Handselecta is a font foundry and preservation project documenting graffiti as a form of contemporary calligraphy and transforming handwritten scripts into digital typefaces.The Handselecta project is currently contracted for a monumental art history book of American graffiti hand styles to be released by Gingko Press in late 2012/early 2013.
- Adjunct Professor
  
  Parsons School of Design
  
  Jun 2002 - Dec 2010 (8 years 6 months)
  
  Summer 2002, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2010. Taught a variety of studio design classes in the BFA and AAS programs.
- Sr Art Director
  
  Zoo York
  
  May 2009 - Apr 2010 (11 months)
  
  During my time at Zoo York annual sales grew from $5M to over $30M
- Art Director
  
  Zoo York
  
  May 2005 - May 2009 (4 years)
- Sr Graphic Designer
  
  Zoo York
  
  Oct 2004 - May 2005 (7 months)
- Graphic Designer
  
  SME Branding
  
  Sep 2002 - Aug 2004 (1 year 11 months)
  
  Graphic Designer specializing in branding and identity development for professional and collegiate sport franchises.
- Freelance Graphic Designer
  
  Zona Design
  
  2002 - 2003 (1 year)
Awards

Published

Flip The Script, A Guidebook for Vandals and Typographers, 2012, author

http://www.gingkopress.com/05-str/flip-the-script.html

Press

National Post (Canada) http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/03/19/spray-up-a-look-at-global-graffiti-styles/ March 2010

FridgeMag (Italy) Interview by Enrico Grigoletti May 2009

ComputerLove-“Let’s Talk: Christian Acker” Interview by Matt Newton March 2009

Vimby.com Interview about the Design Dept at Zoo York. July 2008

Juxtapoz Magazine “Christian Acker and The Graffiti Type Foundry: Handselecta” article by Stephen Powers February 2008

Metropolis Magazine “Observed” article by Nancy Nowacek August 2006

Ping Magazine (Japan) “Shock of the Neue: Graffiti Fonts By Graffiti Writers” article by Ian Lynam July 2006

Graphotism Magazine, Issue 42, “Handselecta True to Type” article by Sarah Geoghegan April 2006
Affiliations

AIGA, TDC
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