Mr. Kaufman is a partner at Vivitiv, an issue oriented design firm providing creative services for organizations involved in housing, historic preservation, technology issues, education, the environment, the arts, and more. Mark attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and has over 45 years experience as a designer, illustrator and comics artist.

The illustrations of Mark Kaufman have appeared in publications and websites worldwide including The New York Times, The Nib, Topic, The Progressive, The Stranger, National Lampoon, Willamette Week, Sasquatch Books, Fine Cooking Magazine, and The Oxford American. Mark is the creator of the comic strips American Affairs Desk and I Drew This Thing.  His work has also been featured in the books Thinking Creatively, The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU, Magnificent Marvelous Me, and The Big Book of Green Design. He is the designer of and a contributor to The Nib Magazine, How Comics Were Made, Greetings From the Wasteland, and Be Gay Do Comics!

Mark has also been interviewed on the Escape From Illustration Island Podcast and DesignTaxi.com. Mr. Kaufman and partner Jacqueline McCarthy have been profiled in Step Inside Design Magazine and Rock, Paper, Ink.

Mr. Kaufman served as Vice President of Communications, ICON The Illustration Conference. He has previously served on the boards of AIGA Seattle, The Seattle Show, Into the Woods Conference, Currents9 conference, was co-chair of AIGA Seattle Design Camp, was a jurist for the Creativity 38 awards and is an editor at Illustration Age.

His work has garnered awards from the Society of Illustrators, Society of Publication Designers, Print Magazine, Ignatz, Eisner, Graphic Design USA, American Corporate Identity, Creativity, the Seattle Show, Clark County Public Arts, and the Art Directors Club of New Jersey among others.

Mark’s drawings and collages have been exhibited in galleries in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Boston, Seattle, St. Louis, Las Vegas, Denver, Kansas City, Detroit, Manchester, and London.