Background
Siegler grew up in Huntington Station, New York and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.
Siegler grew up in Huntington Station, New York and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University.
Her clients include Participant Media, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live, Home Box Office, Brooklyn Public Library, Maveron, Random House, The Criterion Collection, The New York Times, Nickelodeon, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. She then worked at Music Television Networks as design director of Video Hits One. Number 17"s clients included Saturday Night Live, The Daily Beast, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Lucky Magazine, Colors Magazine, This American Life, and The Mercer Hotel and Kitchen.
While at Number 17, she also served as Creative Director of Newsweek after overseeing its complete redesign.
She has taught in the masters programs at both Yale University and the School of Visual Arts and was the 2014 Koopman Distinguished Chair in the Visual Arts at the University of Hartford. Siegler founded her current design studio, Eight and a Half, in 2012.
The studio partners with clients in all media and on all kinds of projects including brand identity systems, online experiences, information design, motion graphics, publication design, book design, advertising, and package design. She also has a weekly advice column, "Dear Bonnie", on Design Observer in which she responds to readers" professional, social, or design-related dilemmas.
She was voted one of the 50 most influential designers working today by Graphic Design United States of America. She was the chairman of the American Institute of Graphic Arts national design conference in 2013, having previously created and chaired American Institute of Graphic Arts"s Design for Film and Television conferences in 1999 and 2001.
She also created and produced Command X, a live competition featuring up-and-coming designers, for the last four of American Institute of Graphic Arts"s national design conferences. Her studio"s work is in the permanent design archives of American Institute of Graphic Arts and her work has been recognized with awards from the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, the Webby Awards, and the Broadcast Design Association.