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January 20, 2009

RDA PRESENTS ‘TRANSPARENCY: EXPOSING GRAPHIC DESIGN’ LECTURE SERIES

The Rice Design Alliance will present a four-part lecture series to discuss how graphic design as a discipline and practice embraces a wide range of cognitive, experiential, and aesthetic skills including typography, identity, branding, print design, interaction/experience, information, and sustainability. The speakers are:

  • Steven Heller, Co-Founder, MFA Designer as Author program, School of Visual Arts, New York on Wednesday, January 21;
  • Andy Altman, Founder, Why Not Associates, London on Wednesday, January 28;
  • Ellen Lupton, Director, Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore on Wednesday, February 4; and
  • Michael Rock, Partner, 2×4, New York on Wednesday, February 11.All the lectures will be at the Museum Fine Arts Houston, Brown Auditorium, 1001 Bissonnet. Lectures begin at 7 pm and are preceded by a reception at 6. Individual lecture and series tickets are available. For details, call (713)348-5583 or go online.