Anne Quito
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Anne Quito is a journalist and design critic based in New York City. A staff reporter at Quartz, her beat underscores the design angle of politics and business news. She is the recipient of the inaugural Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary. She wrote “Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines,” (Columbia University Press, December 2019) a book about the glory days of magazine design as told by Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser. Anne graduated from Georgetown University with a master’s degree in Visual Culture in 2009 and is an alumna of the School of Visual Arts Design Criticism MFA where she wrote a thesis on the nation branding of the world's newest nation, South Sudan.
Which living person do you most admire?: My dad
What is your greatest extravagance?: Wandering aimlessly
What is your current state of mind?: Concerned
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?: More butter please.
Which talent would you most like to have?: Being good at playing a musical instrument
What is your most treasured possession?: My passport
What is your favorite occupation?: Incognito journalist
Who are your favorite writers?: Too many to cite, but Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel García Márquez, Nicholson Baker, Jhumpa Lahiri and Sam Anderson are among them
Who are your heroes in real life?: Milton Glaser, Agnès Varda, Gere Kavanaugh, Steve Heller, Ximena Downey
What is it that you most dislike?: Okra (sorry)
What is your greatest regret?: Not learning to ride a bicycle sooner