Jeannie Friedman is an award-winning painter, graphic designer, and art director, and has written and illustrated five books for the very young reader. In 1986, she founded Design 5, a full-service graphic design studio in New York City specializing in creating innovative educational materials for children. Throughout her professional life as designer and studio owner, she continued to paint and exhibit in juried competitions throughout the country.

She has taught art to young children, college students, and adults at the Brooklyn Museum, Livingston College, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and NY Institute of Technology.

As an undergraduate, she attended the University of Chicago and Cooper Union where she earned a BFA with honors in Graphic Design. She also did doctoral work at the Graduate Center, City University of New York in American History, studying how control of computerized technology affected New York City’s newspapers and eroded the typographical workers union.

Jeannie is now a full-time artist and designer living in Rhinebeck, NY with her husband and two highly creative dogs, Jersey and Ginger.