A self-proclaimed "decorationalist," Denise Gonzales Crisp teaches in the graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design, and has been the College's senior designer for nearly four years, directing and designing materials that recently won the studio a Grand Gold for best overall publications from CASE in 2001. She simultaneously maintains the studio SuperStove! where she designs the quarterly artext magazine, and collaborates with artists, writers and other designers. Recent projects out of the Superstove! studio were a cover for Germany's FORM magazine and a poster for the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc).

Ms. Gonzales Crisp holds an MFA in graphic design from California Institute of the Arts and an undergraduate degree in Illustration from Art Center College of Design. Her work has been recognized by Graphis, ACD 100, I.D. Design Review, and many anthologies, including Typography Now Two, Typographics, New Design: Los Angeles, and the soon to be released Inspiration=Idea. In addition, her work has been covered in Print, Eye, I.D., and Metropolis magazine where in the year 2000 she was named one of the "54 people, places, and things about to land with a bang." Her work is collected in the Library of Congress and The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry.