SPRING 2013 • A + D Lecture Series

Arem Duplessis

Who: Arem Duplessis  
When: Thursday, May  2, 2013. 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st Floor

Arem Duplessis: A Dialogue on the Future of Design and Media in the 21st-century

Some argue magazines and newspapers may be close to extinction. How will they survive sociocultural evolutions in contemporary media, and new technological formats and delivery systems that are constantly changing? What role can designers and journalists play in driving 21st-century transformations of 20th-century media in the age of Twitter, and how has this changed the nature of their jobs? Arem Duplessis, Design Director of the New York Times Magazine, will discuss these and other questions with local guests Bryan Erickson, Design Director, Chicago Magazine & Mara Shalhoup, Editor, The Chicago Reader.

Michael Coleman

Who: Michael Coleman  
michaelcolemanstudio.com
When: Friday, March  15, 2013. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Ferguson Hall, 600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st Floor

Michael Coleman in conversation with Chicago collaborators and co-conspirators

A public conversation with Michael Coleman, joined by key collaborators to present work rooted in the Chicago design community. Michael Coleman is an Art Director, Graphic Designer, and Printmaker currently residing in Los Angeles. He was a print design apprentice before the advent of the internet, occupying his high school years cutting rubylith films, key-lining paste-ups and bootlegging tshirts. Fortified by ink-under-nails press work, early ‘90s street culture and a keen dedication to Modernism, he received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he remained for several years post-graduation as an instructor of Visual Communications. His studio provides art direction and graphic design for clients such as Time Out, Girl Skateboards, Fourstar Clothing Company, (RED), Punk Planet Magazine, The Black Keys and Warner Brothers Records. He was the co-founder of Foundation Gallery, a Chicago-based gallery which exhibited the work of printmakers such as Jay Ryan, Aesthetic Apparatus and Serigraphie Populaire. Michael has also curated a number of printmaking exhibitions, includingOFF-REGISTER: a survey of contemporary printmaking that traveled nationally throughout 2007-2008, and GIG: a contemporary survey of poster makers inspired by the archives of WB Records exhibited at the iconic WB Records headquarters in Burbank, CA. His own serigraphs, abstract explorations of urban landscapes, have been exhibited internationally. A selection of these prints was recently published in PULLED!: A catalog of screen printing (Princeton Architectural Press). 

Michael Coleman will also hold a workshop for students Thursday, March 14th. Columbia College students should email zdodson@colum.edu for more information.