EVENTS

FivePlusFive Lecture Series, Art Director’s Club, October 2009

PRESS

Interactive Forms Give Power to Election Perspectives, Poynter Online, 2008

The Men (And Women) Behind The Men, Good magazine, 2008

All The President’s Men (and Women), Awearness blog, 2008

Field Guide to Emerging Talent, Step magazine, 2006

Student Roundtable Discussion, SVA Senior Library, 2004

AWARDS

ADC Young Guns 7, Art Director’s Club, 2009

Annual Design Review, honorable mention, I.D. Magazine, 2009 (Behind the Candidates)

365: AIGA Year in Design 30, AIGA, 2009 (Print)

Interactive Design Annual 15, Communication Arts, 2009 (Behind the Candidates)

88th Annual ADC Awards, merit, Art Director’s Club, 2009 (Behind the Candidates)

General Excellence, National Magazine Awards, 2009 (Print)

TDC 55 annual and exhibition, Type Director’s Club, 2009 (Print)

Magazine of the Year, silver medal, Society of Publication Designers, 2008 (Print)

Cover, silver medal, Society of Publication Designers, 2008 (Print)

Design, entire issue, merit, Society of Publication Designers, 2008 (Print)

Feature/Story, merit, Society of Publication Designers, 2008 (Print)

General Excellence, National Magazine Awards, 2008 (Print)

cause/affect, 2nd place, political design, AIGA San Francisco, 2007 (Freedom of the Press)

Regional Design Annual, Print magazine, 2006

TDC 51 annual and exhibition, Type Director’s Club, 2005 (Freedom of the Press)

Design Annual 43, Communication Arts, 2004 (Freedom of the Press)

EXHIBITIONS

The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture, exhibition and book, Visual Arts Gallery, October 2009

TDC 55 annual and exhibition, Type Director’s Club, 2009 (Print)

Hong Kong International Poster Triennial, 2007 (Freedom of the Press)

Urban Forest Project, AIGA and Times Square Alliance, 2006

TDC 51 annual and exhibition, Type Director’s Club, 2005 (Freedom of the Press)

Excerpts from the Student Roundtable discussion, published in the 2005 SVA Senior Library. The discussion took place in November 2004, and was held at Pentagram’s New York office. It was moderated by Carin Goldberg and Akiko Busch. 

 

Words by Akiko Busch

 

In his novel I am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe chronicles the ethical collapse of the American campus, documenting it as a place where such qualities as courage, judgment, and any kind of moral intelligence are largely absent. At more or less the same time, a slight majority of the American electorate voted to keep a president in office on the grounds of something called “moral values.” If one were to take these two indicators at their face value, one might be tempted to think that a college in a blue state was a place deeply, genuinely, and purposefully disengaged from the moral issues of its time. That premise was tested—albeit inadvertently—in a roundtable discussion in November of 2004 attended by ten SVA graduates of the Graphic Design and Advertising Department. Although the conversation hardly set out to consider the ethics of young designers, it nonetheless managed to do so; by the end of the afternoon the only thing that seemed to be in ruins was Wolfe’s thesis.

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