Mark Randall
Worldstudio
www.worldstudioinc.com
For more that fifteen years, Mark has been principal of Worldstudio, the New York City marketing and design agency which serves major clients in the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds, from JPMorgan Private Bank, Estée Lauder Companies, Adobe Systems and Reed Elsevier, to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, True Majority and the City of New York.
Worldstudio’s work has won leading industry awards and been featured in books on graphic design and in publications such as Metropolis, Graphics International and Eye. Mark and Worldstudio have been twice selected for the prestigious “ID Forty” award, an annual listing of leading innovators in the design industry chosen by ID: The Magazine of International Design.
Worldstudio’s unique focus on socially responsible marketing is mirrored in its synergistic relationship with Worldstudio Foundation, a nonprofit organization which offers scholarships and mentoring programs in the fine and applied arts. Mark is president of the foundation, the first nonprofit in the U.S. devoted exclusively to encouraging social responsibility in the design and arts professions, Worldstudio Foundation dares young artists to dream—of new lives, new careers and new solutions for the world in which we live.
Formerly at Vignelli Associates, the internationally renowned graphics studio, Randall was project manager for the redesign of Fodor’s Travel Guides. He was also a designer for the environmental graphics firm, Whitehouse and Katz.
In addition to lecturing on design and social responsibility at schools and industry conferences, Mark has taught at Parson’s School of Design and Fordham University in New York City and at Hartford University, Connecticut. Mark is the co-founder and chair of Impact! Design for Social Change, a six-week summer intensive at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
He currently serves on the advisory board for desigNYC and the committee of the Times Square Arts Advisors. He also served on the national board of AIGA, the professional association for design.
Mark graduated in 1984 from the University of Washington in Seattle with a B.F.A. in graphic design.
