Events
Salon Series 51: Way Ahead of You….In Another Direction
with Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus joins us to discuss 71 years of work in art & design.
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Join Aaron Marcus for an exploration of his life’s work in art and design, beginning from the age of 10 through to the present day. Marcus will lead an exploration of his work including his undergraduate physics and graduate school graphic design years, teaching at Princeton, and his pioneering conceptual artwork and computer artwork of the 1970s and 80s. He will discuss his creation of one of the first computer-based design studios, pioneering projects in user-interface design throughout the 1980s-2010s, as well as his interest in typography sign and mark-making, visible language, and science-fiction.
Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus is a Fellow, AIGA; a Member, CHI Academy; a Member, ICOGRADA Graphic Design Hall of Fame; an ACM Distinguished Engineer; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, UXPA magazine User Experience; Editor, Information Design Journal; Co-Director and Founder, Design, User-Experience, and Usability conference; and publisher of 59 books and 350 articles. He is founder (1982)/Principal of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Berkeley, CA, the only graphic designer to be awarded a DARPA research contract (1982-85), and supervised about 500 HCI/UX projects for about 300 clients worldwide, including Apple, HP, Motorola, Microsoft, Oracle, Ricoh, and SAP. He lectures/tutors worldwide since 1980. His art/design works are in the collections of SFMOMA, LFA, The Computer History Museum/Mountain View, The Victoria and Albert Museum/London, and The Massimo Vignelli Archive/RIT.
