Lanny Sommese
State College United States
About me
A graduate of the University of Florida and the University of Illinois, Lanny Sommese has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 1970 and is currently a Distinguished Professor. Sommese was selected as the 2010 fellow by the AIGA/Philadelphia and has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale since 1998.
Sommese’s posters won Gold Medals at the Triennial of the Stage Poster, Sofia, the Colorado Poster Biennial, the Biennial of the Poster in Mexico, where he won best poster in show, and the "To Be Human" poster competition at the Danish Poster Museum where he again won best poster in show.
Feature articles about Sommese have appeared in Graphis, Communication Arts and Idea and his work is the subject of two books Lanny Sommese: World Master and Lanny Sommese: X-Ray Vision.
Additionally, Sommese has been a Correspondent for Novum, a German design periodical, since 1976.