Design Lecture Series

FALL 2006

Public Lecture: Elliott Earls
Friday September 15 5:30PM
Art Building, Room ART 1.120

Elliott Earls is the Designer-in Residence and Head of the 2-D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. As a typographer, his type design is distributed worldwide by Emigre Inc. and are part of the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Earls spent September 2000-May 2001 as a designer-in-residence at Fabrica, Benetton's studio/research center in Treviso, Italy. In 2001 Earls was a finalist for the Chrysler National Design Award in New Media. As a performance artist, he was awarded an Emerging Artist grant by Manhattan’s prestigious Wooster Group. Elliott has performed at the Cretiel Theatre Festival in France, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Oak Street Theatre in Portland, Maine; at Experimenta 99, Lisbon, Portugal; Opera Totale in Metrre/Venice; Typo 2000 in Berlin; and Living Surfaces in Park City Utah. Read more at about Elliot Earls at The Apollo Program.

Public Lecture: William Gordon
Wednesday September 20 5:30PM
Art Building, Room ART 1.120

William Gordon is a design consultant through his company Faxon|Gordon, based in Brooklyn, New York. William spent the better half of last year in the Philippines designing home products for 16 local manufacturers though the Philippine government. Before working in the Philippines, William worked for Kohler Co. designing kitchen, bath and home products. William's current projects include developing a fashion accessory brand produced in the Philippines. He was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, attended Pratt and has since lived in many diverse places such as New York, Copenhagen, Manila, and Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin.

Public Lecture: Leszek Zebrowski
Thursday October 05 9:00AM
Art Building, Room ART 2.212C

Mr. Zebrowski was commisioned to create the poster used for the current Polish Film Poster exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities. Born in Szczecin in 1950 and graduated from the State College of Plastic Arts in Gdansk, Leszek Zebrowski is an accomplished graphic designer, painter. He is currently an Assistant Professor on faculty at the Higher School of Applied Arts, Szczecin, Poland. Mr Zebrowski awards include first prize in International Political Poster Triennale 1992.

Tyson Cole
Thursday October 26 5:30PM
Art Building, Room ART 1.102

Uchi's Executive Chef Tyson Cole, is a passionate student of the Japanese tradition. He has trained for more than 10 years in Tokyo, New York, and Austin, under two different sushi masters. He continues his path of study and experimentation at Uchi, developing unprecedented, multi-cultural combinations using his impeccable knowledge of technique. In May of 2003 Uchi opened with Cole as Executive Chef and co-owner. Cole’s gift of marrying global ingredients and flavors with traditional Japanese flavors quickly garnered him local as well as national attention and Uchi became one of the top fine dining restaurants in Austin. The accolades continued when he was awarded a coveted spot on Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs of 2005 list.

Electroland
Monday November 06 5:30PM
Art Building, Room ART 1.120

Cameron McNall is an Architect and Educator and Principal Partner at Electroland in Los Angeles, California. His work encompasses film, multimedia, and public art. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Design / Media Arts at UCLA. He received the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1991, a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1985 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Design from UCLA in 1978. As a sculptor and installation artist he was awarded the 2002 City of Los Angeles COLA (City of Los Angeles) Fellowship. He co-founded the design collaborative Electroland in 2002. Electroland is able to design and execute a wide range of projects, from architecture through film, multimedia and exhibit design .

Peter Hall
Monday November 20 5:30PM
Art Building, Room ART 1.120

Peter Hall is a design critic based in New York, and Senior Editor and Fellow at the University of Minnesota Design Institute. He is the co-editor of the DI's second book, Else/Where:Mapping - New Cartographies of Networks and Territories. He has been a contributing writer for Metropolis magazine since 2000 and has a 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 has taught a seminar class on design theory and writing at Yale School of Art since 2000. He wrote and co-edited the books Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist and Sagmeister: Made You Look.

SPRING 2006

Martin Venezky, Appetite Engineers
Alfred Zolinger & Saundra Wheeler, Matter Architectural Practice
Bill Fox
Irene Keil & David Gregor, PORK [ Design Build ]
Anne Galperin

Past Design Lectures can be found on the Past Design Lecture Series page.