Deborah Adler (born 1975) is an American designer.
A native of
Chappaqua
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,
New York
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, Adler is the daughter of a doctor and a nurse. She attended the
University of Vermont
The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is amon ...
, receiving her BFA in 1997.
Adler then studied design at the
School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by ...
under
Steven Heller and
Lita Talarico
Lita Talarico is a co-founder and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design Program in New York City. She also co-founded the SVA Masters Workshop in Italy, an ongoing summer program. She also teaches and lectures on design entrepreneuris ...
. During this time, her grandmother became ill, having accidentally taken her husband's medication through inability to distinguish what was in the package. This led Adler to redesign prescription bottles as a thesis project. The resulting creation,
ClearRx
ClearRx is a trademark for a design for prescription drug packaging, designed by design student Deborah Adler as a Thesis, thesis project and adopted by Target Corporation (with refinements by Industrial design, industrial designer Klaus Rosburg) f ...
, was distributed nationally by
Target Corporation
Target Corporation (doing business as Target and stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh largest retailer in the United States, and a compon ...
in its stores, and was a success.
An example of the ClearRx bottle is in the permanent collection of the
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
.
Adler completed her MFA in 2002.
She served as senior designer for
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser (June 26, 1929June 26, 2020) was an American graphic designer. His most notable designs include the I Love New York logo, a 1966 poster for Bob Dylan, and the logos for DC Comics, Stony Brook University and Brooklyn Brewery. In 1954 ...
for five years, and has since opened a boutique design firm in
West Chelsea, Manhattan. A mother of two, she has served on the National Board of Directors of the
American Institute of Graphic Arts
The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design. Its members practice all forms of communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, user experience, branding and identity. T ...
and on the steering committee of the organization's Women Lead Initiative, and has shown at the National Design Triennial at the
Cooper Hewitt.
References
1975 births
Living people
American graphic designers
Women graphic designers
People from Chappaqua, New York
Artists from New York (state)
21st-century American artists
21st-century American women artists
University of Vermont alumni
School of Visual Arts alumni
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