Marianne Rosner Klimchuk

Marianne is the chair of the Packaging Design Department – the only BFA of its kind in the country – and has been instrumental in building the programs curriculum to meet the brand and packaging design professions’ academic standards and objectives. Professor Klimchuk is co-author of two books on the subject of packaging design including: Really Good Packaging Design published by Rockport and Packaging Design: Successful Product Branding from Concept to Shelf published by Wiley. She serves on the Advisory Board and is a contributing writer for Package Design Magazine as well as other industry publications. As a partner in the advisory firm designPracticum, she works with companies to integrate design thinking, strategy and best practices. She was a visiting faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School’s Jay Baker Retailing Initiative, a presenter at HBA, LUXEPACK New York and LUXEPACK Shanghai and a judge for numerous industry competitions.