Lisa M. Abendroth has been named a 2019 recipient of the AIGA Fellows award by AIGA Colorado. Award corecipients, Charles Carpenter, creative director at Wigwam Creative, and Abendroth will be honored together at a gala event held on June 21 at Grid Collaborative in Denver.
According to AIGA, the AIGA Fellow award program is “a means of recognizing designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter. The areas of education, writing, leadership and reputation, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring significant contribution.”
A professor in the Communication Design program at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Lisa M. Abendroth led the program from 2000 to 2018. Working across diverse disciplines of design, her research activities include practicing, evaluating, and writing about design that engages underserved people, places, and problems. Along with Bryan Bell she is a coeditor of two books in Routledge’s Public Interest Design Guidebookseries. She is a SEED Network founding member, and a recipient of the SEED Award for Leadership in Public Interest Design. She served as faculty advisor for the MSU Denver AIGA student group for over a decade and has lectured, presented, exhibited, and published nationally and internationally. Lisa has earned degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University and the Rhode Island School of Design.