Kelli Evans is a graphic designer and design educator with extensive experience working in Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and New York. She received a BS in Graphic Design from the University of Cincinnati, an MFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and has two certificates from the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Basel, Switzerland. She is the principal at Zinc Design and her work includes corporate identities, annual reports, brochures, packaging, point of purchase displays, signage, exhibits, mobile event design, web site design, video, and animation. She has been teaching since 2008 and has been an instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Lake Forest College, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently teaching full-time at Loyola University Chicago. Her ongoing areas of emphasis and research are: promoting the interaction between the professional world and that of the student; the development of socially responsible graphic design, and stemming from that, sustainability in graphic design; the Oulipo and the use of generative devices in graphic design; Punk flyer art in the Midwest United States; and the role that graphic design should have in the development of the future of the book.