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The Past is Always Present: Where’d That Come From? Thoughts on Influence.

with Bob Aufuldish

A longtime Bay Area designer, typographer, and educator reveals how to propel a career in design forward while simultaneously keeping one eye on the rearview mirror.

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Bob Aufuldish shares a few of his favorite projects and shows how his work was influenced by a multitude of designers, ranging from Piet Zwart to Alvin Lustig to Wolfgang Weingart to Rosemarie Tissi to April Greiman to Tibor Kalman, and beyond.

The Past is Always Present lecture series is part of The 10th Anniversary Symposium celebrating ten years of Letterform Archive.

Bob Aufuldish

Bob Aufuldish is a designer, typographer, and photographer. He is a partner in the San Francisco area-based design firm Aufuldish & Warinner and a Professor at the California College of the Arts where he has taught since 1991. His work is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, LACMA, Posterhouse, and the Letterform Archive. He was elected into the Alliance Graphique Internationale in 2011 and named a Fellow of AIGA San Francisco in 2019.

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