Lisa Hickey opened Velocity, a Boston-based advertising agency, in 1999. She has worked on national branding campaigns for a diverse range of clients, including McDonaldAEs, Fidelity, Reebok, The Yellow Pages, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Polaroid. Hickey has won a host of national and international awards including those from Cannes, The Museum of Modern Art, The London Show, Communication Arts, Hatch, Neba, and a Clio Award. She has also taught advertising and graphic design at the Massachusetts College of Art for the past 16 years. Hickey is the author of Design Secrets: Advertising.
Lisa Cyr is a designer/illustrator, writer, and national lecturer. She writes for Communication Arts, Step Inside Design, HOW, International Design, and Applied Arts and is the author of Brochure Design That Works (Rockport Publishers). The author lives in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.