Peter Hall, “Writing Design History: Problems and Provocations”

http://www.vimeo.com/8721175

Peter Hall, design critic, and senior lecturer in design at the University of Texas at Austin, will discuss the relationship between writing design criticism and writing design history. He teaches design theory, history and journalistic methods of research and writing and his research focuses on mapping as a design process. He has been a contributing writer for Metropolis magazine since 2000 and has written widely about design in its various forms, including gaming, elevators, building graphics, bridges, neon lights and office chairs, for publications including Print, I.D. Magazine, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He wrote and co-edited the books Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist, Sagmeister: Made You Look and Pause: 59 Minutes of Motion Graphics.

The Fall 2009 Design Criticism MFA Lecture Series is open to the public. You are warmly invited to attend our lectures, to see our new department and to meet with speakers, faculty members and students over a drink. Space is limited; RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu as soon as possible.

Image: Publicity image for George Nelson’s Storagewall system, from Jeffrey Meikle’s book, Design in the USA (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).