Executive Team

Debbie Millman
President Design Group

Debbie has been a major influence in building the firm’s creative business since joining Sterling Brands in 1995. As a partner and President of the Design Group at Sterling Brands, she has worked on the redesign of global brands for Pepsi, Gillette, Colgate, Kimberly Clark, Nestlé, and Campbell’s.

Debbie’s loves are culture, technology and the role that design plays in our everyday lives and much of her time is spent applying this knowledge to our business and to our clients.

Debbie is President of the AIGA, the largest professional association for design. She is a contributing editor at Print Magazine, a design writer at FastCompany.com and BrandNew.com, and Chair of the Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. In 2005, she began hosting the first weekly radio talk show about design on the Internet. The show is titled "Design Matters with Debbie Millman" and it is now featured on DesignObserver.com.

She is the author of three books, "How To Think Like A Great Graphic Designer" (Allworth Press, 2007), "The Essential Principles of Graphic Design" (Rotovision, 2008) and "Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design," (HOW Books, 2009).