On Monday, April 6 Laurenz Brunner will give a talk as part of the Visiting Designer Lecture Series.

Laurenz Brunner, born in Zurich, lives and works in Berlin. He runs a design office, specialising in editorial design, communication design, visual identities and custom typefaces, operating internationally within a wide spectrum of the cultural domain. He is a member of the Swiss type foundry Lineto where he published Akkurat (2004) and Circular (2013). He teaches graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and has been guest critic at various leading art and design institutes including Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Werkplaats Typographie and ECAL, Lausanne. His work has been featured in numerous books and publications, including IDEA Magazine, Tokyo; AA Publications, London; Phaidon Press, London and The New York Times Magazine. He has been awarded twice with the Swiss Federal Design Award and received numerous distinctions from The Most Beautiful Swiss Books and The Best Dutch Book Designs.

This talk is open to the public and will begin at 7pm in F200. For more information, contact the Lecture Series Coordinator, Eline Mul, at elinemul@alum.calarts.edu