Baseman Design Associates

Prior to forming Baseman Design Associates, Frank Baseman was an Art Director at Philadelphia Magazine. He has also worked as a Senior Designer/Art Director with Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser, and the Bernhardt Fudyma Design Group in New York. A native of Philadelphia, he earned a B.A. in Graphic Design from Penn State University and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Frank has served on the national board of directors of AIGA, the professional association for design (2003–2006), and as the founding chair of the steering committee for the AIGA Design Education Community (2001–2006). Frank Baseman was a co-curator of the traveling exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and The Environment, 1965–2005. He was co-chair of Revolution: Philadelphia, a national AIGA Design Education Conference (2005), and author and curator of The Tolerance Project, a student poster design competition and exhibition (2002). Frank has written articles for Voice: AIGA Journal of Design and The Education of a Graphic Designer (2nd ed., Allworth Press, 2005). He was named a “Person to Watch in 2006” by Graphic Design USA Magazine.

Frank Baseman is also a Professor in the Visual Communication Design program at Thomas Jefferson University (formerly Philadelphia University), where he has taught since 1998. He served as Program Director from 2009–2018. In 2018 he was named an Educator to Watch by Graphic Design USA Magazine, and in 2007 he was awarded Philadelphia University’s Innovation in Teaching Award.

Frank Baseman is also the Proprietor and Printer of the design and letterpress printing studio Base Press.