As principal of Jack Weiss Associates, Jack is responsible for business development, operations, project planning, design direction and implementation.

Since forming Jack Weiss Associates in 1977, Jack has directed over 400 major projects ranging from printed communications and visual identity programs to signage and wayfinding systems.

His professional career spans a period of over forty years. He began as an illustrator technician in the U.S. Air Force in 1957. From 1964 through 1967, he held staff designer positions at Low’s Incorporated, Chicago, and at the architectural firm of Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo Associates, Hamden CT. He was Vice President of the design firm Blake & Weiss for ten years prior to forming Jack Weiss Associates.

Jack taught at the Institute of Design, IIT for eight years and has been a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and Illinois Institute of Art. He currently teaches in the graphic design program at Columbia College Chicago.

He is a fellow, board member, and past president of The Society of Typographic Arts and recipient of its William Goldsmith Humanitarian Award. He is a member of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design. He is a founding member and president of Design Evanston. He is former chairman of the City of Evanston Sign Review and Appeals Board and former chairman of the 27 Chicago Designers.

Jack studied at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC, and received BS in Visual Design from the Institute of Design, IIT, in 1965. He earned a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from the School of Art & Architecture at Yale University in 1967. He was honored as a Life Master by IIT in 1992.

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