O+M Schedule: Spring 2007
22 January
Chaz Maviyane-Davies
4:30P
Grace Street Theater
930 West Grace Street
Described by the UK’s [Design magazine] as “the guerrilla of graphic design,” controversial Zimbabwean designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies’ powerful work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights. From 1983 until recently he ran the renowned design studio in Harare called The Maviyane-Project. As a result of the social, humane and confrontational nature of his work, he felt compelled to temporarily leave his homeland due to the adverse political climate there. He is presently an Associate Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
In addition to graphic design practice and teaching, Maviyane-Davies has written and directed films including the award winning After the Wax - a personal view of nationality and identity. This 1991 work has been screened at several film festivals and television channels around the world.
Published and exhibited extensively world-wide, in 2003 he was recognized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with an award for outstanding innovator in his commitment to the struggle to transform society and create a just future. Last year he became the first recipient of the Anthon Beeke International design award in Amsterdam.
12 February
Mark Randall, Worldstudio
4:30P
Grace Street Theater
930 West Grace Street
Mark Randall is principal of Worldstudio, a graphic design agency in New York City whose clients span a profit to non-profit spectrum including JPMorgan, Estée Lauder, Adobe Systems, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, True Majority and The Metropolitan Opera. Worldstudio’s work has won leading industry awards and has been featured in a range of books on graphic design and in such publications as Metropolis, Graphics International and Eye. On two separate occasions Randall and Worldstudio were selected by ID: The Magazine of International Design as one of the prestigious “ID Forty,” an annual listing of leading innovators in the design industry. Prior to Worldstudio, Randall worked at Vignelli Associates, were he managed the redesign of Fodor’s Travel Guides. He has lectured at schools and industry conferences across the country, and has taught at Parson’s School of Design and Hartford University.
Randall is also co-founder of the Worldstudio Foundation, a non-profit organization whose primary goals are to stimulate, coalesce and channel social activism in the design and fine arts industries; to encourage discussion of the fields' ethical assumptions; to promote professional practices sensitive to ecological and humane issues; and to expand the global consciousness of individual artists, architects, designers, and the businesses they serve.
5 March
Terry Irwin
4:30P
Grace Street Theater
930 West Grace Street
Design consultant and educator, Terry currently teaches and practices at Schumacher College, U.K., where she previously received a Masters degree in Holistic Science. Her dissertation explored ways in which principles of Holistic Science can inform more responsible approaches to design. She joined the staff at Schumacher College in the fall of 2004 and divides her time between teaching on the MSc in Holistic Science, designing communication materials for the college and working on a PhD in Natural Design, based at the University of Dundee.
Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, Terry received her Masters Degree in Design from The Basel School of Design in Switzerland in 1986. She worked at several large corporate identity firms in the United States before co-founding the San Francisco office of the international design company MetaDesign where she served as creative director until 2001.
Terry has also taught design at the undergraduate and graduate levels, serving as an Adjunct Professor from 1989 - 2003 at California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco as well as Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles from 1986 to 1989. She also teaches and lectures regularly at Colleges and Universities in North America and Europe.
26 March
Ivan Chermayeff
4:30P
Grace Street Theater
930 West Grace Street
A prolific designer, illustrator and collage artist, Ivan's lyrical, expressive style has resulted in iconic images for literally hundreds of clients. As a founding partner of Chermayeff & Geismar, he has played a significant role in establishing the firm's worldwide reputation. His trademarks, posters, publications and art installations for contemporary buildings are widely recognized and have received nearly every award bestowed by the profession, including gold medals from the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Society of Illustrators. He received the Yale Arts Medal, the President's Fellow Award from the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Industrial Art Medal from the American Institute of Architects. A past president of the AIGA and member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, he also served for two decades as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art.
Ivan Chermayeff studied at Harvard University, the Institute of Design in Chicago, and graduated from Yale University, School of Art and Architecture.
16 April
Lanny Sommese
3:30P
Grace Street Theater
930 West Grace Street
An accomplished poster designer, Lanny Sommese’s work received Gold Medals in the International Biennial of the Poster of Mexico in 1994 and the Triennial of Stage Poster Sofia in 1995. He and his work has been featured in Graphis, Idea, Communication Arts, Step-by-Step and Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, and is the subject of a book, Lanny Sommese: World Master published in China in 1997.
Sommese’s images have been reproduced in hundreds of periodicals and books including Graphic Design, Studio, International Design, How, Applied Arts, Print, Graphis Annual, Graphic Design USA Annual, The Print Casebooks, Creativity Annual and Graphis Poster Annual, Graphic Agitation, Poster Collections of Contemporary American Designers, A History of Graphic Design and A History of Contemporary Graphic Design.
He has exhibited extensively, and his posters are included in numerous collections around the world. More than 100 of his posters are in the Library of Congress Poster Collection.
A member of the Penn State University faculty since 1970, he is currently Professor and Head of Graphic Design. Outside of his teaching Sommese and his wife have their own firm, Sommese Design, specializing in corporate, print and packaging as well as poster design.