Tom Dunne is a contributing art director of American Scientist. He began working with American Scientist in 1991 as a freelance illustrator and moved to the position of art director in 2000. He went back to freelance in 2004 and returned as contributing art director in 2009. He attended Pratt Institute and The Stevenson Academy of Traditional Painting. He began in the field of advertising with clients including Sony, CBS, Olympus, Onkyo, TwinLab, and Harman Kardon. His experience in marketing, design, and technical, realistic, and cartoon illustration lent itself to a gradual switch to editorial art in general, fitting the wide range of skills required by American Scientist. Tom freelanced for clients including the magazines Time, Oxford American and Muse, and book publishers John Wiley, Harvard University Press and Harper Collins. He has taught art privately and at Duke School for Children and makes fine art when he can, exhibiting locally.