Anne Quito
Teaches Resistance and Poetic Dissidence
Anne Quito is a journalist and design critic examining how designers shape culture, from creating legible fonts to building climate-resilient cities and designing nations from scratch. Her work appears in CNN, The Atlantic, Architectural Digest, Metropolis, Fast Company, and Quartz. Anne authored the books Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines (Columbia University Press, 2019) and R/GA By Design (Rizzoli, 2026). Her writing is featured in several anthologies, including What It Means to Be a Designer Today (Princeton Architectural Press, 2024) and The Education of a Design Writer (Allworth Press, 2025). She is currently writing Milton Glaser’s biography.
An experienced interviewer, Anne is a co-host of the podcast Print is Dead, Long Live Print and the host of the Elisava Masters’ Talks podcast ↗. She holds master’s degrees from Georgetown University and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she also teaches. Anne is the first recipient of the Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary.
