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Sussman started her career in the offices of Charles and Ray Eames, where she worked as an office designer beginning in the summer of 1953. She worked 10 years with the Eameses, during which time she served as art director for the office, designing print materials, museum exhibits, films, and showrooms for furniture.[3] Sussman worked on instructions for the card construction game House of Cards[4], the interactive exhibition “Mathematica,” a version of which was shown at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City, and she traveled to Mexico to document folk culture for the Eameses' 1957 film Day of the Dead.[5][6]

Sussman later won a Fulbright Scholarship that enabled her to study at the Ulm School of Design in Germany.[7]

Sussman started her own practice in 1968. She met architect and urban planner Paul Prejza in 1972 and married him that year.[3] Sussman and Prejza formed the firm Sussman/Prejza & Co. in 1980. They specialized in urban branding and designed the look and architectural landscape of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[8]

In Stylepedia, authors Steven Heller and Louise Fili wrote that the graphical elements of that Olympics "epitomized a carnivalesque modernity" and placed the work in the Pacific branch of the New Wave design movement.[9] The firm also designed Hasbro's New York facility, and has worked with the City of Santa Monica, the Museum of the African Diaspora, Disney World, and McCaw Hall. The company was later renamed Sussman-Prejza.[citation needed]

Sussman was known for her bold and colorful work that sometimes integrates typography in the environmental landscape.[8] She was awarded an AIGA medal in 2004.[7] In 2013 the WUHO Gallery hosted Deborah Sussman Loves Los Angeles!, the first retrospective of the artist's early work, spanning her days at Eames Studio to the 1984 Olympics. The exhibit was funded by a Kickstarter campaign. [10] [11 http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/17/on-view-the-designer-who-helped-give-l-a-its-look/?ref=t-magazine&_r=0

After a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the exhibit, “Deborah Sussman Loves Los Angeles” opens this Thursday at the WUHO gallery. This is the first retrospective of the environmental graphic designer’s early work, spanning her days at Eames Studio up to the 1984 Olympics.

Of the new shows, takes this relationship as its starting point and, for the first time, surveys her early work in California as it grew both in terms of scope and size.