In 2017, Mark Randall received the prestigious AIGA Medal – one of the design industry’s highest honors – awarded to individuals “recognized for their role as distinguished practitioners and leaders whose persistent forward-thinking and profound mastery of their craft have reimagined design’s impact on business, education, and our communities.”

For over twenty-five years, Mark was the co-founder and principal of Worldstudio, a strategy and communications firm that partnered with nonprofit and civic organizations to improve lives and strengthen communities. Clients included the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Adobe Foundation, The Metropolitan Opera, The Ringling Museum of Art, the Times Square Alliance, and the City of New York. Worldstudio was known for cultivating long-term client relationships, some lasting more than two decades.

Worldstudio’s commitment to socially responsible design extended to its nonprofit counterpart, Worldstudio Foundation – the first organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to promoting social responsibility in the design and arts professions. Mark serves as president of the Foundation. Its ongoing Worldstudio, AIGA, DxD Scholarship Program has awarded more than $1.5 million to over 850 students, supporting a diverse and socially engaged generation of creative professionals.

The Foundation has initiated numerous high-visibility public art and design projects uniting communities around social issues. In 2009, it launched Design Ignites Change to support architects and designers seeking to make a difference in their communities. Over six years, the initiative reached seventy schools across the United States, supporting college-level grants and high school mentoring programs. An offshoot, The Urban Forest Project engaged hundreds of artists and designers around the theme of sustainability and was presented in nine U.S. cities, including New York, Washington, D.C., Denver, and Baltimore.

Worldstudio’s work has received leading industry awards and has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, Communication Arts, and Eye. Mark and Worldstudio were twice named to ID Magazine’s “ID Forty,” recognizing top innovators in international design. Mark was also included on the Public Interest Design 100 list and profiled in Fast Company’s “Generosity” series as one of the “11 Most Generous Designers.”

In 2010, Mark co-founded Impact! Design for Social Change with Steven Heller at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he also served as program chair. Over eight years, the program attracted participants from twenty-five countries, providing advanced students and creative professionals with entrepreneurial approaches to social design and community engagement.

Mark joined Parsons School of Design in 2016, transitioning full-time into academia. He taught and served as Associate Director of the BBA Strategic Design and Management program before being appointed Associate Dean of the School of Design Strategies (2020–2024). He lectures internationally on social design and has presented at conferences such as AIGA and HOW. He has also taught at Fordham University and the University of Hartford.

In 2019, Mark opened B-Line Ice Cream in Narrowsburg, New York – a seasonal shop producing ice cream sweetened with honey from his own hives, using milk and cream from a small, multi-generational dairy. B-Line also serves as a platform to educate the public on issues of sustainability and the vital role bees play in our lives.

This work inspired the creation of the Parsons B-Studio, dedicated to exploring the intersection of honeybees and human creativity. Mark now lectures and leads workshops on bees, honey, and sustainability, and has appeared on PBS programs including Martha Bakes with Martha Stewart and Lidia’s Kitchen with Lidia Bastianich.

He currently serves on the advisory committee for Diversify by Design. His past positions include service on the national board of AIGA and the advisory board of desigNYC and as a Times Square Arts advisor.