Small Talk No. 6
Michael Bierut: My Life as a Font

Small Talks are 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. Join fellow members in the Bumble and bumble auditorium in the Meatpacking District (after wine and hors d’oeuvres in the library) for a series that is sure to inspire and inform.

Michael Bierut has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1990, ten years after beginning his career in New York as a designer for Vignelli Associates. He was president of AIGA’s New York Chapter from 1988 to 1990 and the president of AIGA National from 1998 to 2001. In 1989, Michael was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale, in 2003 he was named to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame, and last year he won the AIGA Medal. Michael is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, co-editor of the anthology series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design and co-founder of the online journal Design Observer. His book 79 Short Essays on Design will be published by Princeton Architectural Press later this spring.