New at Pentagram
This Monday: Abbott Miller at Central Saint Martins
Abbott Miller will present a free lecture on Monday night at Central Saint Martins. He will discuss recent projects as well as give a preview of work in progress, including his exhibition design for the Harley-Davidson Museum, his catalogue design for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s summer exhibition Superheroes: From Fashion to Fantasy and his Brno Echo exhibition for the Brno Biennale. Abbott’s introduction will be provided by Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune and columnist for the New York Times Magazine. Monday, 28 April from 6:30 pm at the Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London. Tickets are free and available from the Cochrane Theatre Box Office.
Hallelujah! It's a Pentagram Revival
On the evening of Saturday, 5 April, the Austin office and 250 of its closest friends had a “Revival” party to celebrate Pentagram’s commitment to the city of Austin and to give away our newest publication, the Black Book, affectionately nicknamed “The Bible” because it is printed on bible paper. The festive, eclectic crowd gathered under a big tent set up in the parking lot of the Pentagram building, where they were entertained first by the Durden Family gospel band and then by a driving rock and roll set from The Nouns. Guests included Bob “Daddy-O” Wade, the renowned Texas artist, and Joe Ely of the Flatlanders, fresh off a Houston gig with Bruce Springsteen.
It was an unforgettable night. Pictures after the jump!
Michael Bierut and Marian Bantjes Go Rococo
The Seduction symposium poster designed by Michael Bierut and Marian Bantjes for the Yale School of Architecture is currently on view at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum as part of its Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730–2008 exhibition. The show examines the lasting impact of the Rococo period in design of the last four centuries; the poster, with the sinuous lines of Bantjes’ calligraphy, is one of twelve objects chosen to represent the 2000s. The exhibition remains on view through 6 July 2008.
Paula Scher at Serious Play
Paula Scher will be a featured speaker at Serious Play, this year’s Art Center Design Conference. Taking place in Pasadena, California, 7-9 May, the conference will explore the role of play in business, the arts, science, storytelling and technology. Other presenters include Elizabeth Diller, John Maeda, Bruce McCall and David Macaulay, and Paula will also lead a studio session with Sean Adams. Registration info here.
Kit Hinrichs at the Type Directors Club
Kit Hinrichs will present “Art as Type, Type as Art,” a master class at the Type Directors Club in New York. Kit will share his personal typographic influences and discuss how to utilize the emotional power of type in one’s design. The seminar includes an introduction and reception on the afternoon of Friday, 25 April followed by a full day’s class on Saturday, 26 April. Details and registration info here.
An Evening with Jonathan Hoefler
Pentagram’s London office was delighted to welcome members of the Typographic Circle on the evening of Tuesday, 8 April for a lecture by the typographer Jonathan Hoefler, a long-standing collaborator and friend of Pentagram.
As half of Hoefler & Frere-Jones, Jonathan has established a reputation as one of the world’s preeminent type designers. His talk, which coincides with a trip to London to act as a judge for the D&AD awards alongside Domenic Lippa and Harry Pearce amongst others, was used to introduce Typographic Circle members to his approach to typography.
Domenic Lippa, a former chairman of the Typographic Circle and an organiser of the talk, said of the evening: “It was great to be able to host an evening for the Typographic Circle, who I still help out with, but to be able to do it with such a good friend of Pentagram as Jonathan made it all the more enjoyable. It was a lovely evening.”
Hoefler & Frere-Jones have collaborated with Pentagram on several projects, including the design of typefaces for the New York Jets and Lever House.
The Typographic Circle is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers which formed in 1976 to bring together anyone with an active interest in type and typography. Alongside a regular newsletter and a calendar of lectures and social events, all members receive free copies of the award-winning Circular Magazine, designed by Domenic Lippa. Full membership information can be found on their website.
Abbott Miller at Central Saint Martins
Central Saint Martins presents an evening with Abbott Miller, with an introduction by Alice Rawsthorn. Monday, 28 April from 6:30 pm at the Cochrane Theatre, Southampton Row, London. Tickets are free and available from the Cochrane Theatre Box Office.
Lisa Strausfeld at MIND08
Lisa Strausfeld will be a speaker at MIND08, the two-day symposium presented by Seed and the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with “Design and the Elastic Mind,” the exhibition currently on view at MoMA. Curator Paola Antonelli will host presenters including Greg Lynn, Natalie Jeremijenko, Jessica Banks, Chuck Hoberman and Neri Oxman, among others. Thursday, 3 April and Friday, 4 April at MoMA and Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. Tickets are free, but required for admission—register here.
Previously: Lisa Strausfeld in “Design and the Elastic Mind”
Pentagram Under the Hammer
Work by Angus Hyland, Paula Scher and past partners Alan Fletcher, John McConnell, David Hillman and Fernando Gutiérrez will go under the hammer from 2pm on Wednesday, 9 April at The Design Auction.
The auction, arranged by final-year students at the Lincoln School of Art and Design to raise money for their graphic design degree show, will sell work donated by over 80 designers and feature Jonathan Barnbrook as auctioneer.
Click here for full details, including instructions on how to bid.
Harry Pearce at Meeting of Minds
Harry Pearce has been invited to take part in this year’s Meeting of Minds, joining Michael Wolff, Martin Lambie-Nairn and Pentagram co-founder Kenneth Grange for an evening of discussion that will ask: “How can design not only meet a client’s commercial objectives, but also enhance our lives and the culture around us?”
Meeting of Minds is devised and hosted by Jan Casey and will take place in the Stevenson Lecture Theatre at the British Museum in London on 23 April. Further information and tickets are available by email.
Michael Bierut at @issue: Design and Business Conference
Michael Bierut is to speak at the @issue: Business and Design Conference slated for 29 April at the New York Times Building’s TheTimesCenter in New York City. Bierut will appear with New York Times VP David Thurm and Gensler principal Ed Wood to discuss the visual identity of the Times’ new headquarters, for which Pentagram designed the graphics, signage and wayfinding. Other conference speakers include Brian Walker, CEO of Herman Miller; Nancye Green, CEO of Waterworks; Joe Mansueto, CEO and founder of Morningstar; and Gael Towey, Chief Creative Officer of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia; among others. Registration information here.
Together with the Corporate Design Foundation, Kit Hinrichs of Pentagram San Francisco and Hirasuna Editorial founded the journal @issue and continue to design and produce it as well as to organize the annual conference.
Michael Bierut, Michael Gericke and Paula Scher at the Museum of the City of New York
As part of its Spotlight on Design series, the Museum of the City of New York will host a discussion with Michael Bierut, Michael Gericke and Paula Scher about what it takes to design for institutions and corporations in one of the most visually competitive cities in the world. Museum curator Donald Albrecht moderates. Wednesday, 16 April from 6:30 pm at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Tickets and information here.
Lisa Strausfeld in MoMA’s ‘Design and the Elastic Mind’
The Museum of Modern Art’s landmark new exhibition, “Design and the Elastic Mind,” opens this weekend. Curated by Paola Antonelli, the exhibition “highlights current examples of successful design translations of disruptive scientific and technological innovations, and reflects on how the figure of the designer has changed from form giver to fundamental interpreter of an extraordinary dynamic reality.” Two of Lisa Strausfeld’s recent projects are represented: Sugar, the user interface for the One Laptop per Child initiative, chosen to represent large-scale, community-oriented design and demonstrated in the exhibition on two XO laptops, and Lisa’s visualizations for the New York Times Magazine article “Rewiring the Spy,” featured as an example of a critical visualization. Two hundred other objects, installations and concepts are also on display including examples of nanodesign, 3-D printing and organic design.
“Design and the Elastic Mind” opens to the public on Sunday, 24 February and is on view through 12 May 2008.
Design Museum's 'Feedback' Lecture Now Available on Podcast
Harry Pearce, John Rushworth and Paula Scher’s “Feedback” lecture held at the London Design Museum last year is now available as a podcast from the museum’s website.
The talk was organized as an accompaniment to the Design Museum’s retrospective “Alan Fletcher 50 Years of Graphic Work (and Play)” and was hosted by the exhibition’s curator Emily King. In the hour-long discussion, Pearce, Rushworth and Scher frequently refer to the ways in which Fletcher influenced their work and careers.
Paula Scher at UDesign
Paula Scher will speak at UDesign, a graphic design conference to be held at Princeton University on 1 March. The student group Princeton University Student Design Agency has organized the conference on the premise that although the university lacks a graphic design major, exposure to the field is no less important.
James Biber to Make AIGA/NY Small Talk
James Biber will present “2D/3D,” an AIGA/NY Small Talk taking place on Wednesday 6 February from 6:30-8:00. Biber will discuss the intersection between architecture and graphic design, his life at Pentagram, how he really feels about collaborating with graphic designers and what he considers to be the most influential movie about design ever made—and no, it’s not Helvetica. At the Bumble and bumble auditorium, 415 West 13th Street. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
Update: Message on the Bottle
Justus Oehler’s wine label design for Message on the Bottle, organised by OnDesign Studio for this year’s Hamburg Design Festival, has been featured in Marie Claire (Italy), Creativ Verpacken and will feature in the February edition of Novum.
The Message on the Bottle exhibition will go on a tour of European design festivals in 2008.
German language readers can find comment on Justus Oehler’s recent talk for MCAD, Design with humour, humanity and passion on the organisation’s website. To navigate to the page, simply click on the ‘Open House Lectures’ icon and follow the links to Justus’ talk.
Luke Hayman at Magazines Are Dead! Long Live the Magazine!
Luke Hayman will be speaking at the one day conference about magazine design Magazines are Dead! Long Live the Magazine! taking place in London on Friday 25 January. Sponsored by the St Bride Foundation, Hayman will be joined by Jeremy Leslie, editor of the blog magCulture, Wallpaper* editor-in-chief Tony Chambers and Simon Esterson of Blueprint and Eye, amongst others.
Christmas at Pentagram London
Over 350 invited guests attended an evening of champagne and canapés at London’s Florence Hall on Thursday, 6 December for London’s traditional Pentagram Christmas party. Attendees were given an early Christmas gift this year as the party provided the perfect opportunity for a sneak preview of Pentagram’s new publication, The Black Book.
Paula Scher at Glasshouse New York
Tomorrow night Glasshouse New York presents “Does Design Really Matter?,” a panel discussion with Paula Scher, David Rockwell of the Rockwell Group and Carl Johnson of Anomaly, moderated by Linda Tischler of Fast Company. Tuesday, 4 December from 6:30 pm at the Rockwell Group, 5 Union Square West in New York City. Tickets are $75. Registration here.
Pentagram New York Hosts WGDFC Northern Regional
On Friday, 16 November Pentagram’s New York office hosted the Northern Regional of the World Graphic Design Foosball Championship. Nineteen teams from studios across the city battled it out before the top two teams were sent on to compete at Karlssonwilker and The Office of Paul Sahre later that night. Sadly Pentagram’s own teams did not advance to the final, but the event did qualify as the studio’s first kegger.
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Justus Oehler at Design Festival Hamburg
Justus Oehler has designed a wine label for Message on the Bottle, a wine bottle and label design exhibition held as part of Design Festival Hamburg 2007, one of the highlights of Germany’s design calendar which is now in its 50th Year. In total there were 70 contributions to the exhibition from designers in 16 countries. Message on the bottle ran from the 5th to 20th of October 2007.
‘Paula Scher: Recent Paintings’ Opens This Week
An exhibition of new paintings by Paula Scher opens this Thursday, 8 November at the Maya Stendhal Gallery at 545 West 20th Street in New York City. Featured is work from her ongoing Maps series including the paintings India, Tsunami, Manhattan at Night, NYC Transit, Middle East and Paris. An exhibition catalogue has been published. The show remains on view through 26 January.
A closer look at NYC Transit and images of China and Paris after the jump.
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Justus Oehler at MCAD, Munich
Justus Oehler will be giving a talk, entitled Design with humour, humanity and passion, as part of MCAD’s Open House lecture series at 7.30pm on Wednesday 7 November, at the Trafokeller, Martin-Luther-Straße 2, Munich, Germany.
MCAD (Masterclass Art Direction) is a privately funded initiative that offers postgraduate courses for a small number of talented designers. Their Open House lecture series has included speakers from a wide variety of German and international agencies.
Paula Scher's Posters Exhibited in Indianapolis
An exhibition of over 40 posters designed by Paula Scher opens today at the Dean Johnson Gallery, 646 Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis. The show includes landmark works for The Public Theater, Ballet Tech, and the School of Visual Arts, among others, as well as recent projects like the Number Series. It remains on view through 29 November.
Pentagram Celebrates Julius Shulman and ‘The Russian Garbo’
On Wednesday night Pentagram Architects hosted a party to celebrate famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman’s 97th birthday and the publication of Pentagram Papers 38: The Russian Garbo, which features Shulman’s photographs of the Sten-Frenke House. The Santa Monica residence was designed by Richard Neutra in 1934 for the Ukrainian émigré actress Anna Sten (“The Russian Garbo”) and her husband, Dr. Eugene Frenke, and was restored by James Biber and his team at Pentagram Architects in 2005. Shulman, who photographed Neutra-designed houses for forty years, remarkably did not shoot the Sten-Frenke House until after the restoration was complete.
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Domenic Lippa at Guadalajara DesignFest
Domenic Lippa will be speaking about his work and giving a design workshop on Friday 19 October at the Guadalajara International Design Festival, DesignFest ‘07, a three day design festival taking place on the campus of Tecnológico de Monterrey in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Abbott Miller at RGD DesignThinkers
Abbott Miller will be a keynote speaker at DesignThinkers, the annual conference of the RGD Ontario, 17 to 19 October in Toronto. Other featured speakers include Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore, Karim Rashid, Marc Gobé, Debbie Millman and Hillman Curtis. Registration information here.
Pentagram Celebrates 35 Years of Poster Design
Pentagram London opened its doors to the public on Thursday, 20 September for an exhibition of over 100 posters from throughout the company’s 35 year history, curated by Domenic Lippa.
The London office, designed by founding partner Theo Crosby, was transformed; with posters filling every available wall space and mounted on easels kindly loaned by Mark Cass of Cass Art.
More photos after the jump.
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Berlin Launch for Pentagram Papers 37
Pentagram’s Berlin office hosted a party last night to celebrate the launch of Forgotten Architects, Pentagram Papers 37. The guest of honor was architect Dr. Myra Warhaftig, whose compendium German Jewish Architects Before and After 1933 was the inspiration for Forgotten Architects, the latest in the series of self-published points of view known as the Pentagram Papers. Forgotten Architects surveys the work of German Jewish architects who disappeared during the years of the Third Reich and is accompanied by rarely seen photographs of their residential and commercial work.
Among the 100 guests who attended were Dr. Ulrich Klopsch, director of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Dr. Lieselotte Kugler, director of the Museum für Kommunikation and Dr. Rainer Rother, director of the Deutsche Kinemathek Museum für Film und Fernsehen. After an introduction and welcome by Pentagram partner Justus Oehler and a speech by Berlin’s State Secretary of Culture, André Schmitz, the guests enjoyed food, drinks and a special exhibition the Pentagram Berlin team organized for the evening.
State Secretary of Culture, André Schmitz welcomes guests.
Justus Oehler, Dr.-Ing. Myra Warhaftig, André Schmitz, State Secretary of Culture.
‘Helvetica’ Opens in New York
Helvetica, the acclaimed documentary by Gary Hustwit about the ubiquitous typeface that features interviews with Michael Bierut and Paula Scher, amongst others, opens today at the IFC Center in New York. The film is also running at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London through 27 September.
Selected reviews after the jump.
William Russell at London Open House
William Russell will be talking about the design and construction of his award-winning Bacon Street residence as part of 3: Architect’s Houses from Bromley to Brick Lane, a joint discussion, sponsored by London Open House, in which he and two other architects, Ivor Berresford and Julian Powell-Tuck, will talk about the process of building, and the experience of living, in a house of their own design.
The talk takes place at Margaret Howell’s flagship store at 34 Wigmore Street, London W1, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm on Thursday, 13 September. Tickets for the talk are available online.
The discussion is part of London’s annual “Open House” architecture event, where Londoners are encouraged to engage with the architecture of their city and over 600 buildings all over London celebrate design excellence by opening their doors at no charge to the public.
35 Years of the Poster at Pentagram
As part of the London Design Festival, Pentagram will be hosting a poster exhibition for one evening only on Thursday 20th September at our Notting Hill office. This is a unique opportunity to view designs which span the last 35 years, from the work of founding to current partners. There will be an open door policy from 7:00-9:00 pm. Enquiries please contact Leah Speakman.
Michael Bierut, Paula Scher and ‘Helvetica’ at the Corcoran
Michael Bierut and Paula Scher will participate in a panel discussion at a screening of the documentary Helvetica at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Thursday, 13 September from 7 pm at the Corcoran, 500 Seventeenth Street NW in Washington, DC. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
Commercial runs of the film open at the ICA in London on 7 September and at the IFC Film Center in New York on 12 September. Updates here.
Harry Pearce at Kyoorius Designyatra
Harry Pearce is to speak at the second annual international design conference Kyoorius Designyatra in Goa, India, from the 6-8 September. “Design Empowers Businesses” is the theme of the discussion-oriented conference that while international in participants, will focus on building the value of design in Indian society and business. Other speakers include New York’s Stefan Sagmeister, Wally Olins from Saffron Brand Consultants and David Kester, the head of the Design Council UK.
Paula Scher Creates Pincushion Eames Chair for Charity Auction
Paula Scher has reinterpreted an Eames molded plywood chair as part of a Herman Miller-sponsored charity auction to raise money for the Peace House Foundation. Each of the eleven participating designers and design firms were given an Eames’ classic “potato chip chair” to modify. Paula’s contribution was inspired by a typeface she designed called Pincushion. “We wanted to think of the object as something soft that could be punctured, in this case, with large hatpins, giving it the feeling of a pincushion” she said. “In our expression, the chair becomes a purely visual, rather than a utilitarian object.” Other participants include Ayse Birsel, David Rockwell, Todd Oldham and Maharam. The chairs will be auctioned off at the Herman Miller National Design Center in New York on 22 August.
The Peace House Foundation is a U.S. based non-profit that is committed to educating children affected by the AIDS pandemic in East Africa.
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Lisa Strausfeld at User Experience Week
Lisa Strausfeld, Christian Marc Schmidt and Takaaki Okada will give a keynote lecture about the development of the Sugar UI for One Laptop per Child at the User Experience Week presented by Adaptive Path, 13-16 August in Washington, DC. Lisa’s session is on Tuesday, 14 August; details and registration information here.
Harry Pearce to Judge Prison Art
Harry Pearce has been invited to be a judge for the annual Creating a Future prize, part of an exhibition of art, prose and poetry by inmates from sixteen prisons in the North West of England to be held at The Co-operative Group’s headquarters at New Century House in Manchester from the 13th to the 18th of August 2007.
Michael Bierut and 'Helvetica' at the Cleveland Cinematheque
Michael Bierut visits his native Cleveland this weekend for a screening of the new documentary Helvetica. Michael, who is interviewed in the film, will introduce the documentary and answer audience questions afterwards. Saturday, 26 July from 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11141 East Boulevard in Cleveland. Details here.
Screenings of the film—which also features Paula Scher—are scheduled around the world in the coming months, and a commercial run opens in New York on 12 September. Updates here.
Michael Bierut with John Margolies, Phil Patton at the Architectural League of New York
Photographer John Margolies will discuss the changing American landscape in a conversation with Michael Bierut and the design writer Phil Patton. Wednesday, 25 July from 6:30 pm at the Architectural League of New York, The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue in New York City. Details here.
Celebrating ‘Seventy-Nine Short Essays’
Friends, family, clients and colleagues gathered in New York’s Madison Square Park Tuesday night to celebrate the release of Michael Bierut’s new book, Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design published by Princeton Architectural Press. Appropriate for the sultry summer evening, guests were served Shackburgers, hot dogs and frozen custard from the park’s popular Shake Shack. Congratulations were heard all around for both Bierut’s accomplishment and Abbott Miller’s design in which each of the book’s 79 essays is formatted in a different font.
Pentagram Turns 35
Tuesday 12 June was Pentagram’s 35th Birthday and to celebrate, Daniel Weil and Julia Wyatt organised a mystery day out for partners and staff from the London and Berlin offices.
More photos from the celebrations after the jump
D&AD President’s Lecture
Left to right: Domenic Lippa, Lorenzo Apicella, Justus Oehler, DJ Stout, Daniel Weil, Michael Bierut, William Russell, Lisa Strausfeld, Abbott Miller and Alan Livingston.
A sell-out crowd of 1,200 people filled London’s Old Billingsgate Market on Tuesday night to hear Lorenzo Apicella, Michael Bierut, Domenic Lippa, Abbott Miller, Justus Oehler, William Russell, Lisa Strausfeld, DJ Stout and Daniel Weil share their opinions on the culture of Pentagram in an insightful discussion.
The London audience was joined by students from the Berlin School for Creative Leadership, who viewed the talk in Germany via live video-link.
Professor Alan Livingston CBE, led the discussion on different aspects of the firm’s organization for over ninety minutes before opening the floor to questions from the audience.
Remembering Alan Fletcher
Pentagram partners from every office joined 600 invited guests on Monday for a private memorial to celebrate the life of Alan Fletcher held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
‘(Almost) All the President’s Men’
Ben Terrett posts a review of last night’s D&AD President’s Lecture on the Creative Review Blog.
Radio Hyland
Angus Hyland is taking to the airwaves to play eight of his favourite tracks and to talk about his take on graphic design with the polymath art director, designer, writer and broadcaster Adrian Shaughnessy. The show will be aired by London’s Resonance FM from 1 pm BST on Friday, 1 June and will be available by either tuning in to 104.4 FM in London or by listening via their website.
The show will also be available to download as a podcast in the coming weeks. Full details of how to access this can be found on Graphic Design on the Radio.
SOLD OUT: Pentagram D&AD President’s Lecture
Lecture poster designed by Harry Pearce, to be sold at the event.
As part of this year’s D&AD President’s Lectures series, a cross section of Pentagram partners—Lorenzo Apicella, Michael Bierut, Domenic Lippa, Abbott Miller, Justus Oehler, William Russell, Lisa Strausfeld, DJ Stout and Daniel Weil—will give their views on the past, present and future of Pentagram in a discussion chaired by Professor Alan Livingston CBE.
A new short film about Pentagram by award-winning filmmaker Hillman Curtis will be shown as part of the talk. The film was specially commissioned for the D&AD President’s Lecture and is Hillman’s second film about Pentagram.
Tickets for the discussion, to be held at Old Billingsgate in London on the 22nd of May, are sold out, however, D&AD will be filming the talk. The film will be exclusively available to D&AD members, but watch this space—we hope to post some excerpts as soon as post-production is finished.
Click here for more information from the D&AD website.
Kit Hinrichs at HOW Design Conference
Kit Hinrichs will be a keynote speaker at the 2007 HOW Design Conference, presented by HOW magazine. Kit’s presentation will discuss the use of storytelling in design. The conference runs Monday to Wednesday, 10 to 13 June at the Hyatt Regency, Atlanta. Registration info here.
‘Papers’ Celebrated at SFMOMA
The Pentagram Papers was feted at SFMOMA.
Pentagram’s San Francisco office celebrated the publication of The Pentagram Papers with a lecture, book signing and party at SFMOMA on Friday, 30 March. John McConnell, partner emeritus and the Papers’ originator, and Kit Hinrichs, the book’s designer, gave a talk about the Papers before joining Lorenzo Apicella and Robert Brunner to sign copies of the new book. The event was sponsored by Bombay Sapphire.
Photos after the jump.
Abbott Miller Speaks at the DSVC
Abbott Miller will present a lecture at the Dallas Society of Visual Communications, next Wednesday, 2 May at City Place, 2711 N. Haskell in Dallas. Reception at 6 pm, talk at 7. Info here.
Paula Scher at FUSE Conference
Paula Scher will be a keynote speaker at the 11th annual FUSE: Brand Identity and Package Design conference, presented by the Institute for International Research. Paula will deliver the closing speech, “Branding Without Blanding.” The conference runs Monday to Wednesday, 16 to 18 April at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, New York. Registration info here.
‘Papers’ Signing With Kit Hinrichs
Kit Hinrichs discusses the origin of the Pentagram Papers and signs copies of the new book at an evening presented by AIGA/LA. Thursday, 15 March from 7 pm at the Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. Event registration and details here.
Biber, Bierut and Scher Talk for IIDA/NY
If all politics is local, then all design is identity: As part of the IIDA/NY’s Pioneering Design Series, three Pentagram partners—James Biber, Michael Bierut and Paula Scher—will talk about how they create identities for buildings, build identities for clients and generally cope with their individual identity crises. Thursday, 22 March from 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the New School, 66 West 12 Street in New York. More info here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
James Biber at ‘Icon as Brand’
James Biber will speak at “Icon as Brand,” a panel discussion about iconic buildings as brand strategy, moderated by Ned Cramer, editor-in-chief of Architect. Other speakers include Mario Natarelli of FutureBrand, Lindy Roy of Roy Co. and Frank Sciame of Sciame Construction. Tonight from 6 pm at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York City. Program and ticket information here.
Colin Forbes at the Design Museum
Pentagram co-founder Colin Forbes makes a rare appearance in London to speak about his career and early collaborations with Alan Fletcher. Tuesday, 13 March from 7:15 pm at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, London. Details and ticket information here.
‘Feedback’ Feedback
Noisy Decent Graphics reviews Friday night’s event at the Design Museum.
Abbott Miller at ‘Body/Language’
Abbott Miller will be a speaker at “Body/Language,” an AIGA/NY conference about fashion and graphic design. Other featured speakers include Isaac Mizrahi, Andy Spade, Ruth Ansel and Paul Boudens. Saturday, 24 March at the French Institute, New York City. Registration information here.
Luke 1:29
Luke Hayman, William Russell and Abbott Miller
Pentagram welcomed its newest partner, Luke Hayman, with a party at its New York studio on Monday, 29 January. Friends, family, designers, writers, architects, illustrators and New York-ers gathered to celebrate.
D&AD President’s Lecture
The Pentagram partnership will present its first-ever D&AD President’s Lecture this spring. Partners slated to appear include Michael Bierut, Robert Brunner, Domenic Lippa, Abbott Miller, William Russell, and DJ Stout. Tuesday, 22 May from 7 pm at Old Billingsgate, 16 Lower Thames Street, London. Buy tickets now—this event will sell out. Details and info here.
Woody Pirtle: ‘Visually Speaking’
The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, presents “Woody Pirtle: Visually Speaking,” a retrospective of work by the artist, designer and Pentagram partner emeritus. The exhibition opened 21 January and remains on view through 25 February, with a reception and lecture on Thursday, 1 February. Details, including a video interview with Woody, here.
Michael Bierut: ‘My Life as a Font’
Michael Bierut traces his life through 26 fonts in an AIGA/NY Small Talk on Tuesday, 13 March. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
‘Feedback’ at the Design Museum
Partners Harry Pearce, John Rushworth and Paula Scher will discuss Pentagram’s history, working practice and achievements in light of the contributions of co-founding partner Alan Fletcher, in a conversation with Emily King, curator of the exhibition Alan Fletcher: 50 Years of Work (and Play). “Feedback,” Friday, 9 February from 7:15 pm at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, London. Details here. THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.
Michael Bierut at Art of the Book
Michael Bierut will be moderator for “The Art of the Book: Behind the Covers,” a discussion of book design with Dave Eggers, Chip Kidd and Milton Glaser. Monday, 4 December at 8 pm at the 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street in New York City. Information and tickets here.
Abbott Miller at Cutting Edge Conference
Abbott Miller will present a lecture about graphic fashion and fashion graphics at Cutting Edge: The Avant-Garde and Fashion, the eighth annual fashion conference organized by Initiatives in Art and Culture. Other speakers include Zac Posen, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Bert Stern and Tim Gunn. Thursday, 30 November through Sunday, 3 December 2006 (Abbott will appear Sunday) at Parsons The New School of Design, 560 Seventh Avenue in New York. Registration information here; download the conference brochure here.
Lecture: Michael Bierut at FIT
Michael Bierut will be speaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology as part of its Visiting Artist Program. Wednesday, 11 October at 6:30 pm at the Katie Murphy Amphitheater, FIT Building D, 27th Street and Seventh Avenue in New York City. Admission is free.
DJ Michael Bierut at the Cooper-Hewitt
Our very own DJ Michael Bierut will be spinning at the National Design Awards After-Party on Wednesday, 18 October. Tickets are $125 in advance or $150 at the door and can be purchased here. (Leaked playlist here.)
Update: Michael writes about his fondness for vinyl on Design Observer.
Pentagram Talk: Philippe Apeloig
Graphic designer Philippe Apeloig will be visiting our New York office to speak about his work. Join us on Tuesday, 27 June from 6 to 7 pm. All are invited.
Philippe’s bio after the jump.
Pentagram Talk: Hillman Curtis
Hillman Curtis, the award-winning new media designer, Flash filmmaker, and principal of hillmancurtis, inc., will be visiting our New York office to speak about his work. Join us on Wednesday, 10 May from 6 to 7 pm. All are invited.
View Hillman’s recent movie about Pentagram here.
Hillman’s bio after the jump.
Lecture: DJ Stout at Success by Design Conference
DJ Stout will be giving a keynote presentation about strategies for brand success at this year’s Success by Design Conference, presented by the Center for Design and Business, a joint venture of Bryant University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Thursday, 27 April at the Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence. Registration information here.
Lecture: Paula Scher at Art Center
Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast will be speaking at Art Center as part of the school’s prestigious Toyota Lecture Series. Wednesday, 12 April from 7:30 pm in the Los Angeles Times Media Center, Art Center College of Design, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena. Admission is free.
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