A lecture by designer David Reinfurt about the magazine Visible Language and TOKENS. This is part of The Lubalin Center's Open Flat File lecture series. Ten designers, artists, and researchers were invited to select a single object from Herb Lubalin Center's archive to respond to. Lecturers have designed a commemorative poster that will distributed for free at the event. Doors open at 6:00 PM. Talk starts at 6:30 PM and will be followed by a reception.
Register here. This event will be in-person in the Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union and live-streamed on YouTube.
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About the speaker Reinfurt is an independent graphic designer in New York City. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993 and received an MFA from Yale University in 1999. On the first business day of 2000, David formed O-R-G inc., a flexible graphic design practice composed of a constantly shifting network of collaborators. Together with graphic designer Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, David established Dexter Sinister in 2006 as a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in New York City. Together with Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey and Angie Keefer, David set up a non-profit institution called The Serving Library in 2011 which maintains a physical collection of art and design works, stages events, and publishes an annual journal. David was 2010 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow in Architecture and Design and 2017 Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Centres Georges Pompidou, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. David is Professor of the Practice in Visual Arts at Princeton University.
About the series This event is part of Open Flat File, a free 10-part lecture series held on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Herb Lubalin Study Center. Each lecturer was invited to select a single object from the collection to respond to through a free public talk and to design a poster about the object. The Open Flat File series will be staged during the 2026–2027 academic year.
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