Chee Pearlman
Former Editor-in-Chief, I.D. Magazine
Director, Chee Company
Chee Pearlman, former Editor-in-Chief of I.D. Magazine, is the director of Chee Company, a New York-based editorial and design consultancy. She is also Curator of the Curry Stone Design Prize, an annual $100,000 grant that recognizes innovative designers creating social impact solutions. A journalist, conference director, and curator for more than 20 years, she has contributed to The New York Times, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, Wired, Popular Science and Architects Newspaper.
Chee has been the program director of the Art Center College of Design Conference for six years and has co-edited several books including Spectacle by David Rockwell and Bruce Mau; Made You Look, by Stefan Sagmeister; and Perverse Optimist by Tibor Kalman. She founded and co-chaired the Chrysler Design Award for its 10-year duration, and curated the groundbreaking “Voting Booth Project” exhibition at The New School. She has served on innumerable juries, is an advisor to the TED conference and a board member of the Art Directors Club. Chee is a 2011 Harvard Loeb Fellow and is currently developing a conference in and about Detroit entitled "Urban Craft: Solutions from the Edge."
