A look back at the first lectures we rebroadcast from The Vignelli Center for Design Studies' Design Conversations Lecture Series.

Back in September 2020, we partnered with The Vignelli Center for Design Studies to rebroadcast their Design Conversations Lecture Series. We’re gearing up to rebroadcast the next three lectures in the series, which will begin next week. In the meantime, we wanted to share these fantastic lectures from the Fall ? in case you missed them:

Our first rebroadcast of The Vignelli Center for Design Studies’ Design Conversations Lecture Series was with Natalie Nixon, PhD. Her talk, entitled “Level Up Design: Creativity & Context at Every Turn” shares stories about the importance of including different perspectives in research and development and how that can push design to be even more innovative and she shares some action steps you can take to help analyze and push your creativity. Watch:
The next rebroadcast we shared was with legendary designer Noel Mayo. His talk, “Noel May ? A Life of Firsts”, is full of incredible designs and his stories behind them. As Josh Owen, Director of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies noted, when Noel walks into the room… everyone stops talking: he’s kind of a big deal. For example, he reimagined the light switch for Lutron, created the first in-line deposit/withdrawal for banks, as well as telephones, seating, desks, lighting fixture, offic...