Lanny sommese biography definition

Lanny Sommese is a world renowned poster designer and educator. For the past 40 years, he has been a professor and practitioner at the Pennsylvania State University.

His designs and posters have been consistently recognized by design publications and included in numerous permanent collections.

He gained notoriety recently when designer, author, and former student Chip Kidd combined Sommese and another professor to create Kidd’s psychotic, viciously critical, design professor Winter Sorbek for his novel The Cheese Monkeys.

Sommese’s teaching style and critiques are well known by many of his current and former students.

This June, Lanny Sommese will be awarded the AIGA Philadelphia Fellow Award—the most prestigious honor that an AIGA chapter can give.

idsgn recently got a chance to sit down with Sommese to discuss the award, his views on design education, and if there’s any truth behind Winter Sorbek.