Paper Architecture: Michael Bierut & Jonny Sikov

Schedule

Thu Apr 10 2025 at 05:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Seattle Public Library-Central Library | Seattle, WA

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RESCHEDULED for APRIL 10!


Join us for 'Paper Architecture,' a presentation by Michael Bierut and Jonny Sikov of Pentagram on the translation of three-dimensional ideas to two-dimensional form.


Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. He worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates before joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990.

His clients at Pentagram have included The New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, The Robin Hood Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Mastercard, Bobby Flay Bold Foods, Princeton University, the New York Jets, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Playwrights Horizons. As a volunteer to Hillary Clinton’s communications team, he designed the H logo that was ubiquitous throughout her 2016 presidential campaign.

Bierut served as president of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1988 to 1990 and is president emeritus of AIGA National. He also serves on the boards of the Architectural League of New York and the Library of America. Bierut was elected to the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1989, to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 2003, and was awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in 2006. He was winner in the Design Mind category at the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards. In 2016, he was the Henry Wolf Resident in Graphic Design at the American Academy in Rome.

Bierut is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art and a lecturer in the practice of design and management at the Yale School of Management. He is a cofounder of the website Design Observer and is the co-editor of the five-volume series Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design published by Allworth Press. Michael’s book 79 Short Essays on Design was published in 2007 by Princeton Architectural Press. A monograph on his work, How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry and (every once in a while) change the world was published in 2015 by Harper Collins. His collection of new essays, Now You See It, was published in fall 2017.


Jonny Sikov

Jonny Sikov’s experience spans the fields of print, digital, and environmental media. He studied Visual Communication Design at the University of Washington where he earned a Bachelor’s of Design and was selected for the Henry Art Gallery Design Fellowship in 2011. In addition to his degree at the University of Washington, Jonny studied type design at the Cooper Union under the tutelage of Christian Schwartz and Berton Hasebe.

As an independent designer, Jonny has collaborated with a range of prominent design studios, architecture firms, and arts institutions including Studio Matthews, Small Stuff, Schema, Olson Kundig Architects, Henry Art Gallery, and Artist Trust. He has also taken on graphics projects for GE, Nike, Bloomberg, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ennead Architects, and Pilchuck Glass School.

Since joining Michael Bierut’s team at Pentagram, Jonny has worked on complex brand identity and large scale environmental projects for clients including Verizon, Meta, MIT, Itaú, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, and the International Center of Photography.

His design work has received recognition from organizations such as The Type Directors Club, Core77 Design Awards, the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), Communication Arts, Eye, and Print Magazine.



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