Before founding ex;it, Alan founded and led the environmental graphic design firm AGS. Over 31 years Alan has designed for clients such as: Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Glaxo, Sutter Health and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Throughout his career, Alan has always pushed to raise standards and help pioneer fresh approaches to environmental design. He lectures at conferences and universities internationally on touchpointing, wayfinding, and environmental graphic design that works to improve the human experience. In 2006 he authored a chapter on wayfinding in healthcare environments for Wayfinding; Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems (Rotovision). Alan twice won the SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design) international design Honor Award for his work with the Main Line Health / Lankenau Hospital Wayfinding program in 2006 and his community-building work in Rwanda. He chaired the SEGD 2004 national design conference, The Power of the Individual, and is currently chairperson for the SEGD 2010 strategic planning initiative. He has been selected as Juror for the 2007 Cincinnati Design Awards.

Alan is a featured speaker at the 2007 congress of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations(ICOGRADA) in Cuba on the topic of Improving the Human Condition through Sustainable Design.

Committed to finding new ways to integrate career and community, Alan is currently Board President of the internationally recognized Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia. He is Board Chair of Camp Golden Slipper for deserving children.

Alan’s efforts to build humane communities reach as far as Africa. As a partner in the Rwanda Healing Project he leads community arts and health initiatives in a genocide survivors village in central Rwanda. To raise funds for the program, he climbed to the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro in June, 2007.

ex;it is the latest example of Alan pushing the limits with new ideas. He has created ex;it as a model for working with clients in a new way to improve the quality of design. The firm practices a holistic approach to environmental graphic design, touchpointing that involves users directly in the process. The goal is to pioneer new understanding and new thinking about how humans react and communicate in their surroundings, and to manifest the ideas in people centric solutions.

Alan is a native of Philadelphia and is an alumna of the University of the Arts.