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School of Visual Arts Announces Spring 2011
Design Criticism
Lectures
February 15 -
April 12
School
of Visual Arts
(SVA)
announces the
Spring 2011
lectures in
the MFA
Design
Criticism
Department.
Now a fixture
of the New
York design
community,
these public
programs
consist of
thoughtful
presentations,
lively Q&A
sessions, and
intimate
receptions
where
designers,
critics, and
design
enthusiasts
can continue
the
conversation
with the
featured
guest.
Speakers for
the spring
lineup are
selected and
hosted by the
current
first-year
students, and
include
industrial
designer and
lab chief at
Rockwell Group
Tucker
Viemeister;
fashion
historian and
FIT Museum
curator Valerie
Steele;
design
historian Linda King;
television
critic
and “The
Medium”
columnist Virginia
Heffernan;
Pentagram
partner and
writer Michael
Bierut;
and Wall
Street Journal
wine critic Lettie
Teague.
All
lectures take
place on
Tuesdays from
6 - 8pm at 136
West 21st ST,
2nd floor, New
York City.
Admission is
free and open
to the public;
RSVP to
212.592.2228
or dcrit@sva.edu.
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February
15: Tucker
Viemeister,
"Play=Design=Learning"
Young Frank Lloyd
Wright played with
his blocks. Eames
played with bent
wood, Buckminster
Fuller played with
tensegrity. In order
to succeed today,
designers need to
play with all kinds
of complex and
contradictory
factors. Industrial
designer and Fast
Company
blogger Tucker
Viemeister will talk
about the role of
play in designing,
learning and its
relationship to
design criticism.
Tucker Viemeister is
lab chief at Rockwell
Group. The Lab
experiments with
interactive digital
technology in objects,
environments and
stories—blurring the
line between the
physical and
virtual. Since joining
Rockwell Group in
2004, Viemeister has
been instrumental in
the design and
development of
projects including
JetBlue’s Marketplace
at the JFK
International Airport;
"Hall of Fragments,"
an installation that
opened the Corderie
dell’Arsenale at the
2008 Venice Biennale;
and MGM City Centre in
Las Vegas. Prior to
joining Rockwell
Group, Viemeister
helped launch
frogdesign NY,
Razorfish, Smart
Design (where he led
the design of the
widely-acclaimed Oxo
"GoodGrips" universal
kitchen tools), and
Springtime USA.
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March
1: Michael Bierut,
“Designing,
Writing, Teaching:
Not My Real Job”
Michael
Bierut has worked as
a designer, writer,
editor, blogger, and
teacher. He will
describe the
pleasures and perils
of working for 30
years with an
intentionally
confusing job
description.
Michael
Bierut is a partner
in the New York
office of Pentagram
Design, and was
previously vice
president for
Graphic Design at
Vignelli Associates.
He is the author of
Seventy-nine
Short Essays on
Design
(Princeton
Architectural Press,
2007), which
collects some of his
contributions to
Design Observer, the
design blog he
co-founded with Rick
Poynor, Jessica
Helfand and William
Drentell. Bierut is
the co-editor of the
anthology series Looking
Closer: Critical
Writings on
Graphic Design (Allworth
Press) and co-editor
of Tibor
Kalman, Perverse
Optimist
(Princeton
Architectural Press,
2000). He is a
recipient of the
Cooper-Hewitt
National Design
Museum Design Mind
Award and frequently
contributes
commentaries on
graphic design in
everyday life to the
Public Radio
International
Program "Studio
360."
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March 22:
Linda King, "Fly
Irish: US and
Dutch Influences
on Aer Lingus
Advertising"
Ireland’s
receipt of
Marshall Aid
funding put
pressure on
successive Irish
governments to
modernize
Ireland’s tourism
industry. By the
1950s Aer Lingus
was operating as a
de facto tourism
authority and had
embarked on an
ambitious
advertising
strategy led by
Dutch immigrant
designers
recruited from KLM
Airlines. Design
historian Linda
King demonstrates
how these
designers
introduced a
radical visual
modernity into
Irish graphic
design practice,
which still
resonates today.
Dr.
Linda King is a
lecturer in Design
History, Theory
and Visual
Communication at
the Institute of
Art, Design and
Technology in
Dublin. She has
lectured and
published widely
on her research
interests, which
include the
graphic design and
advertising
strategies of the
former Irish
national airline,
Aer Lingus; the
expression of
national identity
through design;
the
professionalization
of Irish design
practice; and the
material culture
of tourism. She is
an invited member
of AICA
(International
Association of Art
Critics) and is on
the editorial
board of the
journal Artefact.
Her co-edited
volume Ireland,
Design and
Visual Culture:
Negotiating
Modernity,
1922-1992,
will be published
in March 2011.
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March
29: Virginia
Heffernan, "The
Pleasures of the
Internet."
"The Pleasures of the Internet" is about
the delight—and
anxiety—of
digital
existence. From
YouTube to
e-books to
WikiLeaks, media
critic Virginia
Heffernan will
address the
specific ways
that digital
culture has
already
superseded
analog, and how
that's both
terrifying and
exhilarating.
Virginia Heffernan is a television critic
for The New
York Times
and writer of
"The Medium"
column in The
New York Times
Sunday
Magazine.
Started in 2006,
"The Medium"
reviews and
analyzes our
web, television,
video and
ever-changing
media culture
and the "way we
watch now." Prior
to her work at
the Times,
Heffernan was a
fact-checker for
The New Yorker.
She served as an
editor at Harper's
and Talk
magazines, and
as TV critic for
the online
magazine Slate.
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April 5: Lettie Teague, "The Language of
Wine Labels"
Everyone has
their own method
of buying
wine—sometimes
it just involves
labels less than
grapes or their
origin. Wine
labels are as
diverse and
individual as
book jackets.
The old adage
says you can't
judge a book
this way, and
wine follows
suit. What,
then, can we
learn from the
label of a wine
bottle? Wine
columnist Lettie
Teague explores
the nuances of
wine labeling
that clue us in
to the contents
of a bottle and
reveals that
sometimes all is
not as it seems.
Lettie Teague is a
wine columnist and
staff writer for The
Wall Street
Journal.
Her column appears
on alternate
Saturdays in the
Off Duty section
of WSJ
Weekend.
She joined the
publication in
March of 2010,
after 12 years as
the wine editor
and columnist at Food
& Wine
magazine. Her
monthly column,
"Wine Matters,"
won the 2003 James
Beard M.F.K.
Fisher
Distinguished
Writing Award and
the 2005 James
Beard Award for
Magazine Columns.
She is the author
of Educating
Peter, an
introduction to
wine (Scribner,
2007) and the
co-author of Fear
of Wine (Bantam,
1995). Her work
can also be found
in the 2009
Best of Food
Writing Guide
(DaCapo). Teague
splits her time
between New York
City and the North
Fork of Long
Island's wine
country. She loves
most wines of the
world except
Pinotage.
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April 12:
Valerie Steele,
“Fashion Theory”
Valerie
Steele, the
founder and
editor-in-chief of
Fashion
Theory: The
Journal of
Dress, Body
& Culture,
published by Berg,
will discuss the
origins and
development of
this influential,
interdisciplinary
journal and
consider its
contribution to
the development of
Fashion Studies as
a field.
Valerie
Steele is a
fashion historian,
author, chief
curator and
director of the
Museum at the
Fashion Institute
of Technology in
New York City. She
has curated over
20 exhibitions,
and has written
many books,
including Gothic:
Dark Glamour (Yale
University Press,
2008); The
Corset: A
Cultural History
(Yale
University Press,
2001); Fetish:
Fashion, Sex and
Power (Oxford
University Press,
1996); and The
Black Dress (Harper
Collins, 2007).
She is also the
editor-in-chief of
Fashion Theory,
a journal she
founded in 1997,
to showcase
critical analysis
of the dressed
body. Steele,
who has been
referred to by The
New York Times
as a "High-Heeled
Historian" and was
listed in the New
York Daily News
as one of
"Fashion's 50 Most
Powerful,"
lectures frequent!
ly and has
appeared on "The
Oprah Winfrey
Show" as well as
"Undressed: The
Story of Fashion"
(BBC 4 and Bravo).
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Media
Contact: For
more
information,
please contact
John
Wyszniewski,
assistant
director of
communication,
at 212.592.2209
or jwyszniewski@sva.edu.
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