Come see Deborah Sussman’s presentation, titled “To Do,” 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 7th at my Design History 2 class. The event is free, and open to the community.
President of Sussman/Prejza, a trailblazer in the development of distinctive and successful visual communication for the built environment, Deborah pioneered the field of Environmental Graphic Design. Her [...]
Arlen Schumer’s back in town, and this time Art Center’s got him.
Arlen is an acclaimed illustrator and an award-winning designer and comic book historian. Some of you may remember him performing to a packed house at my Loyola Marymount University History of Design class, on “The Graphic Design of Comic Book Art.” Well, by popular [...]
Throughout AIGA National’s Pivot conference, none of the on-stage staff smiled anywhere near as much, or as radiantly, as Art Center’s own Sean Adams. To be fair, though, all the rest of that group hailed from East of here.
I’m happy to say I’ve gotten heaps of praise from my review of Pivot. Mostly, designers thanked [...]
Last month I wrote a four part series about AIGA San Diego’s annual Y conference for Print magazine’s Imprint, before this year’s event at the end of March.
Y16’s main stage participants included moderators Petrula Vrontikis and Nik Hafermaas and featured presenters Brian Boyl and Chris Dooley (Art Center alumnus, graphic design, class of 2000). And [...]
(Massimo Vignelli, Exhibition Opening Invitation, School of Visual Arts, New York, 1991)
This Michael Bierut article from Design Observer last week was just too good to pass up. If you haven’t read it yet, please do. I find it to be a particularly topical to our Art Center upbringing. Teaser: Mr. Bierut has agreed to do [...]
Petrula Vrontikis is a strong contributing member of the Art Center community who not only teaches Advanced Graphic Studio and Portfolio classes, but also strives to represent us out in the real world. I first met her about four years ago at an Art Center event at the Landor offices in San Francisco. She came [...]
It is no secret that I follow Sean Adams around like an obedient puppy. I’ve been his TA for four terms now, and it was Sean who encouraged me to take on the presidential role, and also convinced me to go to the conference in Memphis. And well he should, as he recently completed his [...]