Hitchcock is a professor at RISD and teaches graduate and undergraduate students in areas of typography, environmental graphic design, visual narrative and book design.

She has a BA in English from Kenyon College, an MA in English Literature from Columbia University, and an MFA from Yale University in Graphic Design. With a strong interest in the relationships between visual language, letterforms, and literature, Hitchcock, who has been at RISD since ‘98, teaches such courses as Making Meaning, Typography, Type and Message in the Built Environment, and Visual Narrative. Additionally, Hitchcock advises graduate and undergraduate students in special projects, independent studies, and Thesis.

Hitchcock’s specialties and research interests include book design, conceptual applications for design and typography, visual and written language in three dimensions, and the creation and critique of visual narrative. Recently she has become more involved in researching aspects of typography in motion and typography as elemental aspects of architecture and landscape.

Over the years, Hitchcock has worked for various design studios (including Bureau NY and Vaughn Wedeen in Albuquerque NM) and since 1998 has focused on her design studio, Lucinda Hitchcock Design, producing books and other printed material for publishers and cultural institutions. She has worked with such clients as Chronicle Books, The Japan Society Gallery NY, the Boston MFA, Beacon Press, and David Godine Publishers. Her designs have won numerous awards and have appeared in AIGA annuals, Print Magazine, Best of New England exhibitions, and The American Association of University Presses “best-of-shows” and catalogs. Hitchcock’s work, along with selected student work, appeared in the book “Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation” edited by Teal Triggs (Thames and Hudson 2004).

Hitchcock lives and works in Providence, RI, with her husband Thomas and 2 lovely daughters.