Lance Rutter is a partner in the Chicago design studio Legendre+Rutter, along with his partner Yann Legendre, and he is a member of the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Over his 25-year career, Rutter’s design work has been published in magazines and books such as Communication Arts, Print, ID, STEP, and Graphis, among others. Since 2008, his posters have been exhibited in international competitions in Poland, Mexico, Japan, Hungary, China, the Slovak Republic, Bolivia and Iran.

Rutter has been active professionally through the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) and AIGA for many years, serving as AIGA Chicago President from 1999-2001, national board member and advisor, and program chair for many civic design initiatives. Through AIGA, he helped establish the “Voter Experience Redesign Initiative” (VERI) in 2000, which became the national AIGA initiative, “Design for Democracy.”

In 2007, along with Legendre, and with the help and support of many in the Chicago design community, Lance established the ICOGRADA-endorsed Chicago International Poster Biennial (www.chicagobiennial.org), a non-profit initiative dedicated to advancing the ideas of social understanding, visual literacy, and cultural diversity through design. The Chicago Biennial’s first major poster exhibitions took place in 2008.