School of Visual Arts MFA Design Criticism Lecture Series
Fall 2008: Tuesdays, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor
RSVP 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu.

You are warmly invited to attend the D-CRIT Fall Lecture Series, to see our new department and to meet with speakers, faculty members
and students over drinks. Space is limited; RSVP as soon as possible.

October 28: Rob Giampietro, “On Design, Distribution, and
Circulation”
Rob Giampietro is a designer, writer and teacher. He has
written essays and design criticism for publications including BusinessWeek,
Design Observer, Emigre and Dot Dot Dot. He teaches at Parsons The New
School for Design in New York and has also taught in the graduate graphic
design program at Rhode Island School of Design.

October 31: Rick Poynor, “The Observer Self-Critiqued:
Design Columns and Design Criticism”
*Please note that this lecture takes place on Friday at
4:00 p.m.
Rick Poynor founded London’s Eye magazine in 1990, which
he edited for seven years. He has written about design, media and visual
culture for Adbusters, Blueprint, Domus, The Financial Times, Frieze, The
Guardian, Harvard Design Magazine, Icon, I.D., Metropolis and Print, among
other publications. His books include Typographica (2001), and No More Rules
(2003). His collected essays appear in Design Without Boundaries (1998) and
Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001).

November 4: Elyssa Dimant, “‘In Rogue’: Crafting Fashion
Criticism”
Elyssa Dimant is a fashion historian and writer,
contributing to publications such as Vogue, Zink and CITY Magazine, for
which she is a regular fashion columnist. She co-curated the exhibition
“WILD: Fashion Untamed” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-authored
the accompanying catalogue of the same name (Yale University Press, 2004).

November 11: James Sanders, “Begin with the Screen: Using
Film to Explore Issues of Architecture and Design”
James Sanders is a New York-based architect, designer, and
writer. His landmark study on architecture and film, Celluloid Skyline: New
York and the Movies became the basis for a major multimedia exhibit in Grand
Central Terminal in 2007. With Ric Burns, Sanders co-wrote the public
television series, “New York: A Documentary Film.” Sanders has written for
The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and Architectural
Record. His newest book is Scenes from the City: Filmmaking in New York
(Rizzoli, 2006).

November 18: Eugenia Bell, “Design, Observed: Writing
Design and Architecture.”
A New York-based writer and critic, Eugenia Bell is the
design editor of Frieze magazine, where she writes and commissions articles
on design and architecture. Her experience in writing and publishing also
includes work for the Princeton Architectural Press, the Victoria and Albert
Museum, the Walker Art Center and the University of Michigan Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban Planning.

November 25: Allan Chochinov, “Design and the Blog Space”
A frequent lecturer on the impact of design on
contemporary culture, Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New
York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design
enthusiasts. He is editor-in-chief of Core77.com, a widely-read website
focusing on product design; Coroflot.com, a job and portfolio site serving
designers and employers across all design disciplines; and
Designdirectory.com, an online database linking design firms with
corporations seeking strategic design services.

December 2: Pat Kirkham, “Writing Critical Monographs:
Case Studies of Ray and Charles Eames & Elaine and Saul Bass”
Pat Kirkham is a professor of design history and cultural
studies at the Bard Graduate Center in New York and has written widely on
design, gender and film. Her publications include: The Gendered Object
(1996); Charles and Ray Eames: Designers of the Twentieth Century (1998) and
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference (2002). Her
latest book is on the work of graphic designer and filmmaker Saul Bass that
studies his short films made in collaboration with his wife Elaine.

December 9: Chee Pearlman, “Designing the Live Content
Experience”
Chee Pearlman is the director of editorial and curatorial
design consultancy Chee Company. She has written for a number of
publications, including Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, Popular Science and The
New York Times and is the former Editor-in-Chief of I.D. Magazine. Her past
projects have included serving as program director of the Art Center Design
Conference in Los Angeles and founding the Chrysler Design Awards.

December 16: Cathleen McGuigan, “The Role of Design
Criticism in the National Press”
Cathleen McGuigan is a senior editor and writer at
Newsweek, where she covers architecture, design and culture. She is an
adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University,
and has been a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University School of Design. She
has written for The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Rolling Stone,
Harper’s Bazaar and ArtNews.

SVA MFA in Design Criticism
Design Criticism Department . School of Visual Arts
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