Events
Salon Series 61: The Shock of the Familiar: A Conversation
with Jennifer Morla, Mark Fox
A pioneering San Francisco designer reflects on her forty-year career in relation to design history.
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Jennifer Morla of Morla Design will speak about her work, influences, and approach in conversation with designer and educator Mark Fox. Drawing from objects in the Archive’s collection, they will consider Jennifer’s body of work in the context of earlier artists and designers, including Charles and Ray Eames, Alvin Lustig, and Paul Rand, among others.
Jennifer Morla
Since opening Morla Design in 1984, Jennifer Morla has paired wit and elegance on everything from motion graphics and branding to retail environments and textiles. She is the recipient of graphic design’s most honored awards: The Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and The AIGA Medal.
Morla’s work is included in many museum collections including MoMA New York, LACMA Los Angeles and the Smithsonian in DC. She has had solo exhibitions in Japan and at SFMoMA, which has acquired over 50 pieces of her work for their permanent collection.
Morla’s clients include Levi Strauss, MTV, Apple, Stanford, the Mexican Museum and Design Within Reach. She lectures and judges internationally and taught at California College of the Arts for over 20 years.
Her monograph, Morla : Design, offers insight into her creative process and features 150 of her studio’s projects.
Mark Fox
Mark Fox designs trademarks, icons, and letterforms at Design is Play and when he isn’t doing that he teaches, designs agitprop posters, and writes. With partner Angie Wang, Mark wrote the visual reference Symbols: A Handbook for Seeing.
Mark’s work is included in collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London; Museum für Gestaltung Zürich; Poster Museum at Wilanów, Warsaw; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD), Paris; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg; Museum Folkwang, Essen; United States Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).
Mark is a Professor of Graphic Design at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco where he has taught since 1993.
