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She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts in 1993 and 1994.
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Louise Sandhaus
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She is a professor at California Institute of the Arts and is principal of Louise Sandhaus Design. Sandhaus received an associate"s degree in advertising design from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in 1976. She worked for a small publisher in Boston in the 1980s.
Sandhaus founded her design studio, Louise Sandhaus Design (LSD), in 1998.
She was the co-director of the CalArts Graphic Design Program from 1998 to 2004 and was the program"s sole director from 2004 to 2006. Since 1999, Sandhaus has collaborated with architecture firm Durfee Regn as Durfee Regn Sandhaus.
The collective has designed museum exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects. Her work is included in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art"s permanent collection and the Bibliotèque Nationale de France in Paris.
She co-curated the Graphic Design section of the 2010 California Design Biennial Action/Reaction.
Sandhaus"s forthcoming book on West Coast design history, Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design 1936-1986 was inspired by English architectural historian Reyner Banham. An exhibition including page spreads of the proposed book was held at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 2008. Sandhaus lives in Ojai, California.
