Tuesday Night Lecture Series
at sjsu school of art & design

Unless otherwise indicated, all presentations will be held in Art Building Room 133 from 5 – 6 pm.

November 3, 2009
DAN HARDEN: BALANCE

President and chief desinger at Whipsaw Inc, an industrial design and product development firm in Silicon Valley, Harden has designed hundreds of hit products and systems for a wide range of well-known and emerging companies. Seeking to balance the emotional needs of the user with functional sensibility, Harden achieves award-winning dramatic design as well as significant business success.

November 10, 2009
MATTHEW CARTER: GENUINE IMITATIONS

NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION WILL BE HELD IN THE ENGINEERING AUDITORIUM, #189. FREE TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK PLEASE SIGN UP IN ADAVNCE TO BE ASSUERED OF A SEAT.

Type deesigner Carter bases his designs on historical types as well as on non-typographic sources such as handwriting manual and lettering in a painter's works. In this lecture he explains his debt to the historical legacy, and describes cases where historically-based designs have been adapted to the needs of contemporary clients. His type revivals have varied in faithfulness to their models, raising questions about the responsibilities of the continuation of traditional forms, as well as about degrees of intrepretation, adapation to current technology, ancestor warship, and travesty.

November 17, 2009
AARON MARCUS: PRE-POSTMODERN SWISS POSTERS

In conjunction with the opening of this exhibition this evening, colloector and designer Marcus will discuss examples of arist/designers whose work has considerable international influence, as well as context and influences of their ground-breaking graphic designs.

November 24, 2009
NO LECTURE: THANKSGIVING WEEK BREAK

December 1, 2009
CAROL BIER AND JOHANNA MOVASSAT: TAQ-I BUSTAN AND SASANIAN TEXTIES

Taq-I Bustan and Sasanian Textiles

From church relics of medieval Europe to the burials of nomadic cheiftians to Central Asia and imperial treasuries of 8th-century Japan, hundreds of silk textiles with figural designs have been attributed to Sasanian manufacture or influence. Bier and Movassat will discuss the Taq-i Bustan site, with particular focus on designs, patterns, weave structures, and technologies.