Studio A

Antonio Alcal graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in graphic design opening Studio A in 1988. Since then his studio has won awards of excellence in design from local, national and international design institutions including AIGA, Print, Communication Arts and Graphis. His clients include:... the National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Postal Museum, The Phillips Collection, The Textile Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. Alcal is an adjunct faculty member of MICAs MFA graphic design program and is also responsible for the design of US postage stamps as an art director for the United States Postal Service. In 2011, Alcal was nominated for two National Design Awards from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. His work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives, the National Postal Museum, and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design. Dr. Maribel O. Gray entered the field of graphic design as a second career. She graduated with a BFA in graphic design from the Corcoran College of Art + Design and joined Studio A in 2013. From 20132016, she was also an adjunct faculty member at the Corcoran. Prior to becoming a designer, she worked as an attending emergency physician at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, VA. She obtained her BA in chemistry at Goucher College, MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine, MPH in international health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and completed residency training at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. Although her primary interests are web design, user experience, and user interaction design, Maribel is also a printmaker whose work has been included in several juried exhibitions. Helen McNiell hails from a small Tennessee town near the Smoky Mountains. Growing up as the daughter of a college history professor and a public school ...Read More