Highly respected by her peers, she has been invited to teach and guest lecture at many institutions including
Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union, Uiversity of the Arts and Yale School
of Art. She is also a past board member of the American Institue of Graphic Arts, and is the recipient of numerous
awards from The Society of Typographic Arts, and the Type Directors Club, and American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Valerie Pettis and PettisDesign have been the subject of feature articles in Time Magazine, The New
York Times, Print, Graphis, Progressive Architecture, etc. Valerie has been recognized by Idea
Magazine as a major influence on contemporary graphic design. She is one of the designers
covered in both "Graphic Design NY" and "Making and breaking the Grid" (Rockport Publications).
Her work has been shown at IBM National Headquarters and at the International Poster Show in
the Pompidou Center, Paris, France.