Scott Stowell

Scott Stowell is the proprietor of Open. Before starting Open, Scott was the art director of Benetton’s Colors magazine in Rome and a senior designer at M&Co. New York. Before that, he received a BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. A former vice president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), Scott also writes and lectures about design and teaches at Yale University and the School of Visual Arts. In 2008, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum named Scott the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.