John Calvelli teaches design history, theory and visual culture at the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, Canada. He received his MFA in visual communication from California Institute of the Arts in 1989 and went on to become the director of The Museum of Modern Art’s department of graphic design in New York. He has been teaching since 2002 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. His dissertation is on the image and finitude, under the advisement of Catherine Malabou.