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TIME AND PLACE

Tishman Auditorium
Lobby, 66 West 12th Street

Wednesday, February 13, 2013
6:30PM Check-in
7:00-8:30PM Presentation

In collaboration with Designer’s Debate Club, AIGA/NY is proud to announce the third session of this ongoing debate series!

Motion to be Debated: Formal design education is necessary for practicing designers.

So you spent 2-4 years of your life dabbling in “experimental” typography,  producing faux packaging for high-end artisanal ramen (while subsisting on the low-end stuff),  and pumping out unsolicited rebrands that would make any stodgy corporation look like a post-war era retro dream—and you got the portfolio to prove it.

Everyone is looking for a leg up,  a workaround the mediocre middle. Is a formal design education the best way to get there?

Practitioners,  professionals,  thinkers,  scholars. Hustlers,  hackers,  bootstrappers,  ballers. It’s time to bring your A-game and settle the score. Is it the dawn of the DIYers,  the age of self-taught talent? Is design education outdated,  outmoded? Or does a formal design education still make the grade?

The Proceedings:

Opening vote: Audience chooses to side For the motion, Against the Motion, or Undecided.

Round 1 : Opening Statements

Round 2 : Rebuttal

Round 3 : Floor Speeches (Audience jumps in the Brawl)

Round 4 : Closing Statements

Closing Vote : Audience votes again and winner is measured by which side has swayed more votes.

Moderated by:

Scott Stowell, Proprietor of Open & instructor at Yale and SVA.

Arguing For the Motion:

Alice Twemlow, Co-Founder of SVA’s D-Crit MFA

Matteo Bologna, Founder and principal of Mucca Design

Mystery Guest, Chief of Radness at a Place

Arguing Against the Motion:

Able Parris, Associate Design Director of Big Spaceship

Peter Vidani, Design Director at Tumblr

Liz Danzico, Co-founder and chair of SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design