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Past Design Lecture Series

2010–2011

Chris Pullman (Graphic Designer — Boston)
January 19, 2011

Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa (Cross-Disciplinary Designers — New York)
September 27, 2010

Rick Griffith (Typographer and Graphic Designer — Denver)
October 6, 2010

Karrie Jacobs (Critic and Urbanist — New York)
October 13, 2010

David Reinfurt (Graphic Design, Writer, Editor — New York)
November 17, 2010

2009–2010

Jim Walker (Sustainability Expert — Austin)
September 16, 2009

Nancy Sharon Collins (Typographer and Graphic Designer — New Orleans)
September 22, 2009

Andrew Donoho (Software Designer and Consultant — Austin)
September 24, 2009

Rick Griffith (Typographer and Graphic Designer — Denver)
September 30, 2009

Jesse Vogler and Szu-Han Ho (Designers — Chicago)
November 2, 2009

Justine Nagan (Film Director — Chicago)
November 17, 2009

Jakob Trollbäck (Motion Designer — New York)
November 23, 2009

Craig Eliason (Type Historian — St. Paul)
February 24, 2010

Margo Halverson (Graphic Designer — Portland, Maine)
March 9, 2010

Jett Butler (Cross-Disciplinary Designer — Austin, Texas)
March 25, 2010

Gever Tully (Author and Educator — California)
March 29, 2010

2008–2009

Jozeph Forakis (Industrial Designer — Milan, Italy)
September 25, 2008
In conjunction with the Art History division

Nancy Nowacek (Metropolis Magazine — New York)
October 23, 2008

Nick Sherman (Type Consultant, Bitstream — Boston)
November 5, 2008

Alec Drummond (Designer, Prototyper, and Inventor — Austin)
November 24, 2008

Ashley Pigford (Designer and Chair of Graduate Design Program, University of Delaware — Newark)
February 23, 2009

Wayne Li (Product Designer — San Francisco)
March 24-26, 2009

Rob Giampietro (Writer and Designer — New York City)
May 7, 2009

2007–2008

Pablo Bartholemew (Photo Journalist — New Delhi, India)
September 24, 2007
in conjunction with Studio Art and South East Asian Studies

Scott McCloud (Author, Cartoonist, Comix Theorist — California)
Septmber 27, 2007
in conjunction with Plan 2 and University Honors Program

Leszek Zebrowski (Poster Artist — Szczecin, Poland)
October 22, 2007

Fritz Haeg (Architect, Designer, Activist — California)
January 24, 2008

Dr. Kim Smith (Technologist, Inventor — Austin)
February 19, 2008

Damon Rich (Center for Urban Pedagogy — New York City)
March 3, 2008

Wayne Li (Product Design — San Francisco)
March 17, 2008

Chris Taylor (Land Arts of the American West — Austin)
April 25, 2008

Tom Vanderbilt (Author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do — New York City)
May 1, 2008

2006–2007

Elliott Earls (Designer-in-Residence, Cranbrook Academy of Art — Detroit)
September 15, 2006

William Gordon (Faxon|Gordon — Brooklyn)
September 20, 2006

Leszek Zebrowski (Polish Poster Artist — Szczecin, Poland)
October 05, 2006

Tyson Cole (Head Chef at Uchi — Austin)
October 26, 2006

Cameron McNall (Electroland — Los Angeles)
November 06, 2006

Peter Hall (Design Critic — New York City)
November 20, 2006

Sean Bolan (Researcher, Educational Psychology — Seattle)
April 2, 2007

2005–2006

Ola Rune + Eero Koivisto (Claesson Koivisto Rune — Stockholm)
October 3 – 7, 2005

Irene Keil + David Gregor (P O R K [DESIGN + BUILD] — New Orleans)
November 07, 2005

Martin Venezky (Appetite Engineers — Los Angeles)
November 20 – December 2, 2005

Fred Zollinger + Sandra Wheeler (Matter Practice — New York City)
February 22 – 23, 2006

Bill Fox (Writer and Visual Artist)
March 9, 2006

Anne Galperin (Assistant Professor in Design at SUNY New Paltz)
March 20, 2006

2004–2005

Gail Swanlund (Principal and Co-Founder, Stripe — Los Angeles)
September 29, 2004

Uday Dandavate (Principal, Sonic Rim — Columbus OH)
October 14, 2004

Henk van Assen (Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Art, Yale University)
November 10 —11, 2004

Kenneth Frampton (Ware Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, Columbia University)
March 30—April 1, 2005

John Maeda (Director of the Media Lab, MIT)
April 13, 2005

2003–2004

Scott Klinker (Artist–in–Residence and Head of 3–D program at Cranbrook Academy of Art)
September 29, 2003

Natalie Jeremejenko (Director of Experimental Product Design Initiative, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University)
November 11, 2003

Michael Golec (Assistant Professor of Art and Design and Architecture, Iowa State University)
February 5, 2004

Jerry Brody, William Fox, Matthew Coolidge, and Blaine Young (Land Arts Guest Scholars)

2002–2003

Arnold Wassermann (Chairman, Idea Factory — San Fransisco/Singapore)
October 17, 2002

Ron Witte (Co-Founder, WW Architecture — Princeton, NJ)
November 19th, 2002

Katie Salen (Acting Director of Graduate Studies in Design and Technology at Parsons)
January 15, 2003

2001–2002

Eric Janssen (Principal, Eric Janssen Design — New York City)
October 16, 2001

Paul Elliman (Design Educator/Practitioner and Writer)
November 19, 2001

Victor Margolin (Professor of Design History at the University of Illinois, Chicago)
January 22, 2002

Gregory Ulmer + William Tilson (Florida Research Ensemble)
February 25, 2002

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