Lita Talarico
Nationality	American
Occupation	Several honorary positions

Lita Talarico is a co-founder and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Program in New York City. She also co-founded the SVA Masters Workshop in Italy, an ongoing summer program.^[1][2] She also teaches and lectures on design entrepreneurism around the world.

Lita received her Bachelor's degree from Empire State College, and holds a Master's in Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts. She is fluent in English, Italian and French.

A founding associate of Bill Lacy Design, she coordinated architect selection competitions and conferences for the Cleveland Museum of Art; National World War II Memorial Design Competition; International Design Conference in Aspen; Italian Manifesto Conference; and the Pritzker Architecture Prize annual jury meeting.

Talarico was the founding managing editor of American Illustration & Photography, a board-member emeritus of Adobe Education Partners by Design, and member of the AIGA Visionary Design Council. She was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome in 2008 and 2010, where she conducted extensive research on the Roman letter.

Talarico's pupils have included Deborah Adler.^[3]

• Typography Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press)
• The Design Entrepreneur:Turning Graphic Design into Goods that Sell (Rockport Press)
• Graphic: Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Great Graphic Designers (Thames and Hudson)
• Design School Confidential (Rockport Press)
• Design Career: A Practical Guide for Beginning Illustrators and Graphic Designers (Van Nostrand Reinhold).
• Design Firms Open for Business (Allworth Press)