OBjects + Methods
2007-2008 Graphic Design Visiting Lecturer Series
Grace Street Theater, 930 West Grace Street
Lectures begin at
4:30PM unless otherwise noted
Eric Cruz
09.10.2007
Eric Cruz is a creative director with Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo where he oversees the entire visual output spanning its music videos and DVDs to its packaging and online experiences. Relocating to Tokyo has allowed Cruz to pursue work that is culturally relevant to his roots. Focusing on the intersection between art and design, moving images and digital narratives, Cruz explores new frontiers in hybrid media with clients such as Nike, Google Japan, Aiwa, Kumon and Mori Building. A revisionist historian and graphic sociologist, he spends most of his time thinking about global equilibrium and advocation. He has previously worked at Imaginary Forces, Razorfish London, W+K Portland, and Studio Archetype and taught at Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan, and Temple University, Tokyo. He attended VCU and received his BFA in Graphic Design at Art Center College of Design and earned his MFA in Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. www.wktokyolab.com
James Victore
10.01.2007
James Victore is a self-taught, independent artist and designer. His work ranges from publishing, posters and advertising to illustration and animation. His design clients including Moet & Chandon, Aveda, Apple, Yohji Yamamoto, Yamaha, The New York Times, and The School of Visual Arts. Awards include an Emmy for television animation, a Broadcast Designers Association Gold Medal, the Grand Prix from the Brno Biennale (Czech Republic), and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Art Director's Club. Victore's designs are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC and the Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich among others. His work is regularly featured in magazines around the world, and recently a book of his design work was published in China. He teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He lives, loves and works in Brooklyn, NY.
www.jamesvictore.com
Jim Sherraden, Hatch Show Print
10.22.2007
Jim Sherraden is manager and chief designer of Nashville's Hatch Show Print. Described in Forbes magazine as "a tonic for the information age," Hatch is an amalgam of working letterpress shop, tourist attraction, museum, and historical archive. Sherradan shows the history of Hatch, it's graphic design impact on Southern culture, and discusses its popularity and relevance today with the 600 plus jobs he and his staff design annually. He is co author of Hatch Show Print, The History of a Great American Poster Shop, travels extensively presenting the historical and current work of Hatch, and teaches university level workshops on the letterpress technique. The combined work of his monoprints and the staff's constant production has been exhibited recently in over 60 cities in the United States as well as the Netherlands, Norway and France.
www.hatchshowprint.com
Lance Wyman
11.12.2007
LECTURE BEGINS AT 3:30
Wyman is a major influence in the field of environmental graphics. His graphic system for the Mexico’68 Olympic games is cited as one of the most successful in the evolution of visual identification. His early landmarks include branding/wayfinding signage systems for the Mexico City Metro, the Washington Mall, and the National Zoo. Other public graphic systems include the maps for the Washington, D.C. Metro, and signage for pedestrian skywalks in the cities of Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has recently completed systems for the cities of Detroit, Hoboken and Albuquerque, the Amtrak High Speed Rail facility at Penn Station, New York, and the LG Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea. He has received numerous national and international awards and his work has been published and exhibited globally. Fellow of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), founding President of the SEGD Education Foundation, Wyman is principal of the New York environmental graphic design office, Lance Wyman Ltd., and teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York.
www.lancewyman.com
Nell Daniel, Sweat Equity
12.03.2007
Daniel is Executive Director for Sweat Equity Enterprises (SEE), a nonprofit learning organization that is an innovative new model of learning and philanthropy investing in the limitless creative potential of underserved young people. SEE empowers its participants to shift from consumers to producers of the objects, media and spaces that are driving our culture. Daniel received a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design and has taught art, writing, design and photography in a variety of learning environments ranging from private schools to housing projects. She is an active supporter of greater diversity and equity in education. Daniel previously established the design education series, Design Directions, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, worked as Director of Admissions for Parsons School of Design, Arts Coordinator for the Partnership for After School Education (PASE), and education consultant for the New Design High School and the Skyscraper Museum. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Education at New York University.
www.sweatequityenterprises.org
Andrew Wagner, Dwell Magazine
01.10.2007
Andrew was the founding editor of Limn, the unorthodox design and arts magazine published by the equally unorthodox furniture and design company of the same name. He was also the founding editor of Dodge City Journal, a magazine dedicated to documenting life in America's under-explored cities.
Massimo Vignelli
02.11.2008
LECTURE BEGINS AT 3:30
Massimo Vignelli studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano from 1950 to 1953 and later trained at the Universita di Architecttura, Venice. From 1953, he designed glassware for Venini, and from 1958 to 1960 taught at the Institute of Design, Chicago, while his wife, Lella Vignelli (b. 1934), worked for the architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. In 1960, the couple returned to Italy and founded a Milan-based studio- the Lella and Massimo Vignelli Office for Design and Architecture. Four years later, Massimo Vignelli began working for the Container Corporation of America, Chicago, and designed its new logo. In 1965, together with Bob Noorda (b. 1927) and Jay Doblin (b. 1920), he founded the Milanese Design consultancy, Unimark International. The same year, the Vignelli's moved permanently to America, and in 1966 Unimark established a New York office, specializing in corporate identity work. In 1971, the couple established Vignelli Associates and subsequently designed corporate identity programmes for Knoll, American Airlines, Bloomingdales, Xerox, Lancia, Cinzano and Ford; furniture for Poltronova, Sunar, Rosenthal and Morphos; glassware for Venini, Steuben and Sasaki; and showrooms for Artemide and Hauserman. The Vignellis' work is distinguished by their use of clean lines and pure colour.
www.vignelli.com
John Homs
03.03.2008
An NYU graduate with a degree in Film and Television Production, John was a freelance news photographer in New York and Paris before joining CBS Television Network as an art director. In the 1980s, John founded a successful New York design firm focused on the emerging cable television industry. In 1995, after relocating to Richmond, VA, John founded JHI, to pursue his vision for a creative services company with the skill, responsiveness and flexibility necessary to produce effective communications tools for clients in rapidly changing business environments.
www.jhigoodidea.com
Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan
Perform Ear | Say
03.17.2008
PERFORMANCE AT THE VCU COMMONS THEATRE
Composed of designer/writer Warren Lehrer and actress/oral historian Judith Sloan, EarSay is an artist driven non-profit arts organization dedicated to uncovering and portraying stories of the uncelebrated. Their projects bridge the divide between documentary and expressive forms in books, exhibitions, on stage, in sound & electronic media. They are committed to fostering understanding across cultures, generations, gender and class through artistic productions and education. They will perform "Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new america," A cross-media project that documents and portrays the largely invisible lives of new immigrants and refugees that live in the borough of Queens, New York -- the most ethincally diverse locality in the United States.
www.earsay.org
Helvetica – A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit
4.14.2008
FILM BEGINS AT 3:30
"Helvetica" is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives.
www.helveticafilm.com