Highly respected by her peers, she has been invited to teach and guest lecture at many institutions including
Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union, University of the Arts and Yale School
of Art. She is also a past board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and is the recipient of numerous
awards from The Society of Typographic Arts, and the Type Directors Club, and American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Valerie Pettis and PettisDesign have been the subject of feature articles in Time Magazine, The New
York Times, Print, Graphis, Progressive Architecture, etc. She is one of the designers covered in both "Graphic Design NY" and "Making and breaking the Grid" (Rockport Publications).  Her work is part of the permanent collection in many international design museums such as Center for the Study of Political Graphics, US; Dansk Plakatmuseum, Denmark; Design Museum Gent, Belgium; Graphic Design Museum, The Netherlands; Lahti Poster Museum, Finland; Les Arts Decoratifs, France; Museum Für Gestaltung, Switzerland; Wilanow Poster Museum, Poland; and Victoria and Albert Museum, England.