Lecturer

Design

Department of Art & Art History

peterahall@mail.utexas.edu

- Office: ART 1.218

- Phone: +1 512-232-1824

- Mail Code: - D1300

Peter Hall joined the faculty in fall 2007, and prior to taking up the position at UT Austin, he wrote and taught in the vicinity of New York City. Professor Hall is a design critic, and between 2001 and 2007 was Senior Editor and Fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute, where he co-edited the book, Else/Where: Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories and organized several symposia and workshops on mapping. He has been a contributing writer for Metropolis magazine since 2000 and has written widely about design in its various forms, including gaming, elevators, building graphics, bridges, neon lights and office chairs, for publications including Print, I.D. Magazine, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He taught a seminar class on design theory and writing at Yale School of Art between 2000 and 2007. He wrote and co-edited the books Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist, Sagmeister: Made You Look and Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics.