Deborah Adler

Deborah Adler (born 1975) is an American designer. Adler is best known for designing the prescription drug packaging, ClearRx, acquired by the Target Corporation.^[1]

Deborah Adler
Alma mater	University of Vermont
Occupation	Designer
Awards	Design of the Decade: ClearRx Wins Gold Industrial Society of America (IDSA) presents ClearRx with the winning Gold and title “Design of the Decade”
Honours	Deborah Adler joined the AIGA National Board of Directors CNBC Target: Inside the Bullseye ClearRx gets featured on the show. Museum of Modern Art New York, permanent collection Clear Rx featured in “Women Of Design”
Website	adlerdesign.com

Early life and education

Adler was born on September 14, 1975, in Rockland County, New York, and raised in Chappaqua, New York.^[1] She attended the University of Vermont, receiving her BFA in 1997.^[2] Adler then studied design at the School of Visual Arts under Steven Heller and Lita Talarico. She completed her MFA in 2002.^[2]

Career

During her time at the University of Vermont, Adler's grandmother became ill, having accidentally taken her husband's medication through inability to distinguish what was in the package. This led Adler to redesign prescription bottles as a thesis project. The resulting creation, ClearRx, was distributed nationally by Target Corporation in its stores.^[1] An example of the ClearRx bottle is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.^[3]

She served as senior designer for Milton Glaser for five years, and has since opened a boutique design firm in West Chelsea, Manhattan. Adler has served on the national board of directors of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the steering committee of the organization's Women Lead Initiative and has shown at the National Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt.

Adler’s latest design, AdlerRx, received a patent in 2021 and is designed to organize multiple prescriptions across days and times to create an easy-to-follow schedule.^[1]

Personal life

Adler is a mother of two.