Graphic Design by Michael Rock
- Dec. 16, 2009
- 1:02 PM
Transparency: Exposing Graphic Design Videos
Looking for a crash course about typography, identity, branding, print design, interaction/experience, information, and sustainability by four of the world’s leading graphic designers? Sorry. You missed it. In January and February of 2009, the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) held a sold-out lecture series featuring Steven Heller, Andy Altman, Ellen Lupton, and Michael Rock. However, in an effort to reach those who could not attend, the RDA is making videos of the lectures available in the post below. We hoped to make this information available sooner but experienced a long learning curve on handling large video files. Now we know and will be presenting more from past lectures on OffCite.org and ricedesignalliance.org.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Michael Rock
Partner, 2×4, New York
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Ellen Lupton
Director, Graphic Design MFA Program, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; editor of D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Andy Altmann
Founder, Why Not Associates, London
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Steven Heller
Co-Founder, MFA Designer as Author program, School of Visual Arts, New York
Steven Heller has been an art director and writer at the New York Times for over thirty years. He founded the M.F.A. “Designer as Author” program at the School of Visual Arts. He has also written or edited more than 100 books, including Iron Fists: Branding the 20-Century Totalitarian State and The Design Entrepreneur.
This video was made available in an earlier post.
All lectures were held at the Brown Auditorium of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
We thank our generous underwriters: Minor Design Group, Inc., E3 Electric, FKP Architects, Kendall/Heaton Associates
This lecture series was supported in part by A & E – The Graphics Complex, Gilbane, D. E. Harvey Builders, Haynes Whaley Associates, Inc., Matrix Structural Engineers, Inc., Miner-Dederick Construction, LLP, ph Design Shop, Parra Design Group, Ltd., Powers Brown Architecture, Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc., SpawMaxwell Company, Tellepsen, the Corporate Members of the Rice Design Alliance; the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance; and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Video editing by Eric Hester
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Jen Frazer writes:
01.18.10
10:02 am
Can these be reposted along with the digital presentation files? Or can new videos be edited where we see the graphics of the presentation by themselves with the speaker as a voiceover? Because the current videos are the equivalent of taping shows off the TV by pointing a videocamera at the screen.
The poor angle and high compression of the videos render the content unwatchable, which is a shame.
Raj Mankad writes:
01.20.10
10:11 am
Thanks for your feedback. I agree with your suggestions. Unfortunately we work on an extremely tight budget and use the video that is made available to us, which makes it hard to implement your suggestions. We’ll keep working at it.