Join us for an upcoming event. Door prizes, posters, book signings, and surprises have helped to entertain and educate more than 900 people at the speaker series events. And we've had street-level connections with thousands more through the "Keys for the City" project.
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February 23, 2012
Appalachian Brewing Company, Harrisburg, PA
James Victore is a self-taught, independent artist and designer with work in the permanent collection of MoMA - his mom has the letter to prove it. According to Co.Design, "...the man has a brash eloquence that few designers ever master."
March 22, 2012
Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Bohlin is the founder of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, an architectural firm with five offices throughout the U.S. and an incredible list of clients and projects, including the iconic Fifth Avenue Apple store.
March 29, 2012
Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA
One of the most successful designers in history, Paula Scher is partner at Pentagram in NY. She is in the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, recipient of both the AIGA Medal and the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, and represented in numerous permanent collections worldwide.
November 17, 2011
Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Jun Aizaki is owner of Créme Design in Brooklyn – a multi-disciplinary studio specializing in retail and restaurant design. They offer architectural, interior, graphic, and custom furniture services and have recently been featured in Metropolis magazine.
November 3, 2011
Winka Dubbeldam
Armstrong Corporate Campus, Lancaster, PA
Hosted by AIA Central PA.
October 26, 2011
Appalachian Brewing Company, Harrisburg, PA
Allan is the Chair and co-founder of the SVA MFA in Products of Design program. He is editor-in-chief of Core77.com, strategist for Coroflot.com, holds numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The One Club, Communication Arts and many others.
April 21, 2011
Johnsen Schmaling Architects
HACC Campus, York, PA
Hosted by AIA Central PA.
March 24, 2011
Armin Vit
Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Vit, based in Austin, TX, is the fuel behind some of the world’s
most noteworthy design blogs - UnderConsideration, FPO,
Brand New - and several recent graphic design books.
February 17, 2011
Steven Heller
Appalachian Brewing Company, Harrisburg, PA
Heller, author, critic, and educator, visits to share his views on
all things design. A former art director for the New York Times, Heller has been a mainstay of key programs at SVA
for decades.
January 9, 2011
Book Club
Midtown Scholar Books, Harrisburg, PA
"POP. How Graphic Design Shapes Popular Culture" by Steven
Heller. Buy your copy now and join the discussion.
December 3, 2010
Matteo Bologna
Type Directors Club, New York, NY
Day trip to NYC. Guest speaker Matteo Bologna at the Type Directors Club followed by an open schedule to visit museums, go holiday shopping, skate at Rockefeller Center, etc.
November 30, 2010
Pecha Kucha
Shangri-La Studio, Brooklyn, NY
An exploration of how sound, a seemingly visual abstraction (or distraction), can serve as the foundation to informing, visualizing, or connecting to architectural and graphic space.
November 18, 2010
2x4
Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Michael Rock, founding partner and creative director of NYC-based 2x4, will continue the second year’s speaker series. 2x4 was the 2006 winner of the Communications Design category in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.
November 14, 2010
Book Club
Midtown Scholar Books, Harrisburg, PA
“The Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow.
Buy your copy now and join the discussion.
November 4, 2010
LTL Architects
Armstrong Corporate Campus, Lancaster, PA
Hosted by AIA Central PA.
Through October 24, 2010
Good 50x70 Exhibit
Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Society of Design presents more than 200 posters from designers in 36 countries. This international exhibit features selections from the 2009 Good 50x70 Social Communication Project.
October 21, 2010
Local Projects
The Ware Center, Lancaster, PA
Jake Barton, principal of NYC-based Local Projects, will kick off the second year’s speaker series. Local Projects is a 2010 interaction design finalist in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards.
October 11, 2010
Wieden+Kennedy
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Lu Chekowsky, associate creative director of W+K NYC, presents “Find Your Voice,” with work for Nike, Old Spice, Levi’s, Target, and Coca-Cola. Part of the 2010 DesignPhiladelphia celebration.
June 3, 2010
Snohetta
The Strand, York, PA
Hosted by AIA Central PA.
April 9, 2010
Fallingwater/Warhol Museum
Bear Run / Pittsburgh, PA
A day trip to America's most famous architect's most famous project and the Museum of one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century.
May 21, 2010
Keys for the City
Downtown Lancaster, PA
A day trip to America's most famous architect's most famous project and the Museum of one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century.
March 14, 2010
Book Club
Midtown Scholar Books, Harrisburg, PA
"Confessions of a Window Dresser" by Simon Doonan.
Buy your copy now and join the discussion.
March 9, 2010
Helvetica Screening
Allen Theatre, Annville, PA
Co-sponsored with Lebanon Valley College's Religion & Philosophy Department.
March 4, 2010
Modern Dog
PA Academy of Music, Lancaster, PA
Founded in 1987, Modern Dog Design Co. is an internationally acclaimed design company that creates imaginative, bold and playful design in interactive and print media.
January 22, 2010
Chip Kidd
Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA
Iconic graphic designer, best-selling novelist, and musician. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging.
November 19, 2009
Design Army
Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Strip: What really goes on at a design firm? Get the no-nonsense, bare-bones, straight-up story from Design Army founders Jake and Pum Lefebure.
October 15, 2009
WK / Lu Chekowsky
Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA
Find Your Voice: A talk about confidence, awareness, experience, trust, insecurity, ego, reality, nonsense, playfulness, intention, improvisation, optimism, and risk.