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Timothy Samara is a graphic designer based in New York City, where he divides his time between teaching, writing, lecturing, and freelance consulting through STIM Visual Communication. His 18-year career in branding and information design has explore d projects in print, packaging, More.environments, user interface design, and animation. He has been a senior art director at Ruder Finn, New Yorkrss largest public relations firm, and senior art director at Pettistudio, a small multidisciplinary d esign firm. Before relocating to Manhattan, he was principal of Physiologic in Syracuse, located in upstate New York. In 1990, he graduated a Trustee Scholar from the Graphic Design program at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Mr. Samara is a faculty member at New Yorkrss School of Visual Arts, New York University, Purchase College/SUNY, and The New School, and has published six books on design and typography, all through Rockport Publishers:Making and Breaking the Grid;Typography Workbo ok;Publication Design Workbook;Type Style Finder;Design Elements; and, most recently,Design Evolution, released in January 2008. Mr. Samara and his partner live in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.