Portfolio Center president Hank Richardson named Art Directors Club Grandmaster

Hank, the president and design department head of my school was named a grandmaster by the art directors club in New York! They wrote about it on our school's website...and in the NYTimes! check it out:

originally from The New York Times:

People and Accounts of Note

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: October 26, 2009

Art Directors Club, New York, presented its A.D.C. Grandmasters Awards to four educators. They are: Deborah Morrison, Chambers distinguished professor of advertising at the University of OregonSchool of Journalism and Communications; Tom Ockerse, professor of graphic design, Rhode Island School of Design; Hank Richardson, design department head at the Portfolio Center; and Ron Seichrist, founder and president at the Miami Ad School.

Hank Richardson, The Portfolio Center
Hank Richardson has long been a leader of The Portfolio Center. During his tenure there, his students have garnered more than 5,000 local and national awards, and his graduates are employed in the most highly respected firms and agencies in the world, including And Partners, The Attic, Cartoon Network, CNN, DesGrippes Gobe, Goodby Silverstein, Hornell Anderson, Hallmark, Landor, Leo Burnett, Martha Stewart, MTV, Pentagram, The Richards Group, Sapient and VSA and others.

ADC GrandMasters are educators whose careers in creative education have impacted and mentored generations of student creatives and whose legacy is a far-reaching network of industry leaders and professionals in Advertising and Design.
The program salutes those who have dedicated over 10 years of their teaching careers to establishing and raising standards of excellence in visual communications with an award presentation and a 3-week exhibition representing the ADC GrandMasters’ work and that of a cross section of their protégés. Scholarships are endowed by alum in the name of the ADC Grandmaster for their alma mater.