Vignelli Center Events
Massimo Vignelli Master Designer Workshop 2013
Immerse yourself in an intensive typography + graphic design experience at the Vignelli Center for Design Studies with Massimo Vignelli and RIT Design Faculty July 21-27, 2013.
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August de los Reyes of Xbox to Lecture
August de los Reyes will visit Rochester Institute of Technology in March and lecture as part of the Vignelli Center’s Design Conversations lecture series. His lecture is titled Design and The New Modern: Three Things You Should Know.
Save the Date: Master Designer Workshop 2013
Massimo Vignelli will lead a Graphic Design + Typography intensive at the Vignelli Center for Design Studies
July 21-27, 2013.
NYC Subway Diagram Lecture
Beatriz Cifuentes-Caballero & Yoshiki Waterhouse of Vignelli Associates will talk about the iconic New York City Subway Diagram.
Design Conversations: Cory Grosser
Product designer, brand strategist and educator Cory Grosser will speak at the Rochester Institute of Technology on December 19, 2012 as part of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies’ Design Conversations lecture series.
Design Conversations: Lee Green
Lee Green, Vice President, Worldwide IBM Brand and Values Experience, will give a talk titled “Design Leadership at IBM” on Wednesday, November 7 in the University Gallery. Mr. Green is also an alumnus of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Design Conversations: Jeffery Potter, FAIA
American Institute of Architects President Jeffery Potter, FAIA is the Vignelli Center’s next Design Conversations lecturer.
Visual Music: An Exhibition of Paintings by Burton Kramer
The University Gallery and Vignelli Center for Design Studies are sponsoring an exhibition of paintings by legendary graphic designer Burton Kramer. The exhibition runs from August 6 through October 6, 2012.
Massimo Vignelli Master Designer Workshop 2012
Immerse yourself in an intensive graphic design experience at the Vignelli Center for Design Studies with Massimo Vignelli and RIT Design Faculty.
Jeff Miller Roundtable Discussion
Designer Jeff Miller met with Rochester Institute of Technology Industrial Design students for a discussion about his Clipt Chair. Miller recently donated a chair and process work to the Vignelli Center’s Product Time Capsule collection.
In 1984 Enrico Baleri founded Baleri Italia, a company manufacturing quality furniture with a high design content, developing products with strong formal and functional qualities and a commitment toward research, development and talent-scouting. While collaborating with successful designers such as Alessandro Mendini, Angelo Mangiarotti and Denis Santachiara among others, Baleri Italia has launched many new talents such as the young Philippe Starck, Hannes Wettstein and Luigi Baroli.
In 2004 Nino Cerruti became a majority share-holder of Baleri Italia with the objective of developing a new industrial project that could also benefit from his long and successful experience in the textile and fashion businesses. In a short time this process developed into the complete acquisition of the company, the creation of a new managing group, with a new art director and a renewed internal team. Formal and functional research, as well as talent-scouting, continued to be the core activities of the company as shown by the collections presented since 2005 which introduced the work of new talents such as Jeff Miller, Arik Levy, Ilse Crawford, Alberto Colzani and Xavier Lust.
In 2010 baleri Italia officially became cerruti baleri – a natural evolution of the brand that states the consistent and yet evolving character of its history. Cerruti Baleri is an editor and as such it chooses an editorial guideline that expresses itself through the products of the collection and of the edizioni line. For Cerruti Baleri the formal gesture is no longer a sufficient distinguishing element. On the other hand the use of materials such as solid wood, marble, hide leather and fabrics become extremely significant as they express timeless and ecological values. Valuable materials combined with creative intelligence and quality manufacturing define the products and are the true protagonists of the collection.
Jeff Miller is a leading, American Industrial Designer who has received international acclaim for his innovative and distinctive style. Having established his own practice in2002, Jeff blends his research-driven consulting background, with a more personal elemental approach for a range of clients in the areas of product, furniture and interior design including: Bosch / Cerruti Baleri / Herman Miller / Itoki / Panasonic / Samsung.
In addition to his own projects, Jeff currently heads Product Design at Poppin, and the Creative Direction of Itoki Design, a New York-based subsidiary of the Japanese parent company. Years prior, he was the long-time member and Vice President of Design at ECCO Design in New York, where for more than a decade he was involved in product development for global brands including: Apple / Colgate / Corning / LG / Motorola / OXO / Procter & Gamble.
Jeff regularly lectures about his work and has conducted design seminars for students from New York to Paris to Jerusalem. His work has received numerous awards, appeared in print, media, and television, and been exhibited in prestigious collections and museums, worldwide.
A native New Yorker, Jeff Miller was born in the city in 1968. He studied Industrial Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and graduated with University and Department Honors in 1990. He holds several design and utility patents and is a member of IDSA\
Links:
http://www.cerrutibaleri.com/
http://www.jeffmillerdesign.com/
