The Guild’s Eastern Region is delighted to announce their new representative to National: designer Joseph Caserto. Caserto is a long-time Guild member and local advocate for visual creators, an active member of AIGA, the Freelancers Union, the Graphic Artists’ Guild, and SPD, the Society of Publication Designers. He sat on the Freelancers Union Board of Directors from 2011-13, and is on the SPD Student Outreach Committee, where he chaired the annual Pub(lications) Crawl from 2008-12. More recently, Caserto was featured in Guild enews for taking his alma mater, Pratt Institute, to task for crowdsourcing their mascot design, which set a terrible example for their students.

Caserto has had a long career as a designer, working primarily as a publication designer and independent art director. He is currently a freelance art director and designer whose clients have included Billboard, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Marie Claire, and Vibe magazines. Every year since 2008, Caserto has won American Graphic Design Awards from GD USA magazine. In 2008, he also received a Create Award. Caserto has taught extensively, having lectured at CUNY and NYU, and contributed to the Udemy.com learning platform. In fact, for the past few years, he’s extended a member discount on his Udemy tutorials on basic design and coding skills.