Louise Sandhaus is the founder and co-director, with Brockett Horne and Briar Levit, of The People’s Graphic Design Archive, a crowd-sourced virtual archive built by everyone, about everyone, for everyone to expand and preserve graphic design history. She is also principal of LSD (Louise Sandhaus Design) and is faculty at California Institute of the Arts. Her book Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires and Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986, (Metropolis, 2014) received the 2015 Palm D’argent from The International Art Book and Film Festival (FILAF) as well as extensive accolades in the international press. With Kat Catmur, she is co-author and co-designer of A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019), recipient of an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers award. In 2017 she was recognized with Los Angeles Design Festival Icon award and currently serves on the Letterform Archive board.