SMALL TALKS
Intimate evenings featuring presentations by speakers who represent a broad spectrum of visual culture. Expose yourself to various passions, disciplines, ways of working and ways of seeing.
THURSDAY 4 JUNE 2009 6:30 – 8:00PM
small talk no. 9: anthony burrill
Anthony Burrill is an independent UK-based designer and illustrator whose work is beautifully simple and often hilarious. He works across a broad range of activities, including print, film, and internet.
THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2009 6:30 – 8:00PM
SMALL TALK NO. 8: SAM POTTS
Sam Potts, of Sam Potts Inc., is equal parts designer, teacher,Twitterer, and possible superhero. He bats left, throws right, and has had fiction rejected by The New Yorker and Harpers. Creative Review in the UK recently featured Potts’s design of the storefront, signage,publications, and packaging of the infamous Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. He has also done work for the IFC channel, They Might Be Giants, NYU, many publishers of books, the New York Times, and Beck(sort of). Sam Potts Inc. has been an independent graphic design practice since 2002.
THURSDAY 26 MARCH 2009 6:30 – 8:00PM
SMALL TALK NO. 7: MARIO HUGO
Mario would like to spend his Small Talk with stories, secrets, and other such words. He will discuss the nature of design as visual communication, how communication implies dialogue and conversation, and how this emphasizes the importance of vernacular, vocabulary, tone, and inflection in design. In general, it’ll be about maintaining one’s“voice”, focusing less on the immediacy of communication, and more on the intimacy of discussion.
THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2009 6:30 – 8:00PM
SMALL TALK NO. 6: MAIRA KALMAN
Painter, essayist, observer, dreamer, embroiderer, accordionist, silentwalker, author, fan of petit fours, teacher, student of the oboe andclarinet, illustrator, fez collector, opera maker, receipt-saver,list-maker and inventor of the percussion instrument “the Canundrum,”Maira Kalman is having an open house to her imagination, and you're allinvited.
THURSDAY 15 JANUARY 2009 6:30 – 8:00PM
SMALL TALK NO. 5: Alex Trochut
Renowned for his technically exquisite type creations and designs, Alex Trochut believes that "More is More" and this philosophy can be seen in his commissions for The Guardian, Nike, The Rolling Stones, British Airways, Budweiser and Diesel.
TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
SMALL TALK NO. 4: TOM SACHS
Tom Sachs's art reveals obsession and labor, but is also characterized by the sense of playfulness and exuberance that infuses each of his objects. His work largely consists of outstanding contraptions and scale models hobbled together from found and collected materials.
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 3: Paul Davis
Paul Davis is a British artist, illustrator, and reporter who is alternately anarchic, profound, and provocative. Using his drawings to laugh about life, intelligence, stupidity, and culture, he ponders the way we love and hate. His haiku-like drawings have the directness of someone who sees with vivid clarity; they're documented thinking on sex, religion, death, and laughter.
TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk NO. 2: Amit Pitaru
The work of Amit Pitaru cross-palliates among fields as far-reaching and far-flung as music, video games, dance, software, and education. Experimenting at the intersection of accessibility and play, Amit crafts experiences that inspire new or undiscovered ways of approaching the everyday.
TUESDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Small Talk No. 1: Daniel Eatock
His first monograph, Daniel Eatock Imprint, has just been published by Princeton Architectural Press. Constantly oscillating between art and graphic design, each copy individually marked with his own thumbprint, this book is full of Eatock’s astute observations and eccentric obsessions.
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