Amy Auscherman

Amy Auscherman is Corporate Archivist for Herman Miller, Inc, where she manages the company’s extensive design archive, serves as an editor for WHY Magazine, curates exhibitions, and contributes to design history scholarship through writing and lecturing, most recently co-editing the monograph Herman Miller: A Way of Living, published by Phaidon Press in 2019. Previously Auscherman was Archives Assistant at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and worked on the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project "Documenting Modern Living: Digitizing the Miller House and Garden Collection.” Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, AIGA’s Eye on Design, AXIS, Curbed, Dwell, Fast Company, PIN-UP and Surface, among many others. She holds a Master of Library Science and bachelor’s degree in Art History from Indiana University and chronicles her design research on Instagram for an audience of more than 50,000 followers via @acid_free.