AIGA Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston invite you to the opening event of Design Life Now, the inaugural touring exhibition of the Smithsonian Institution/Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Triennial. Be among the first to see the most important design show of the season, before it officially opens to the public.

Explore what “Design Life Now” means today with Julie Lasky, editor-in-chief of I.D. Magazine, and two of the Triennial’s designers. Yoon and Davis are young, innovative, and engaged in working across and between design disciplines. From architecture and concept clothing to web design and rock posters, find out why their work is significant in this exhibition and why this exhibition is significant to them.

Admission
$15 - general admission
$8 - AIGA Members
Gallery admission is included.

Buy tickets now. Seating is limited.

Purchase tickets at www.icaboston.org or call 617-478-3103
(call for AIGA member discount)

Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. Using technology and computers as a medium since 1995, he has been working on many personal projects: http://www.joshuadavis.com (his main site), conceptual project http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com, and others, including praystation, cyphen, and dreamless.

Joshua was the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category “Net Excellence”, the highest honor in international digital art and design. He’s exhibited his interactive works at the Tate Modern (London), the Ars Electronica (Austria), the Design Museum (London), le Centre Pompidou (France), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), PS.1 Moma (New York), and many others.

He is a professional designer and creative thinker, traveling the world speaking at conferences and workshops about his inspirations and motivations, building his own creative projects, and teaching as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

J. Meejin Yoon (b. Seoul, Korea) is an architect, designer, and educator. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT and founder of MY Studio and Höweler+Yoon Architecture. She is the recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Design, the Metro New York 5 under 35 Award, the Young Architects Award from the Architectural League of New York, and Fulbright Fellowship.

Julie Lasky is editor-in-chief of I.D. Magazine, the award-winning magazine of international design. Prior to that, she was editor-in-chief of Interiors magazine, which she led to several national honors. A widely published writer and critic, she has contributed to The New York Times, Metropolis, Dwell, Architecture, Slate, Surface, The National Scholar, and NPR, and she is the author of two books: Borrowed Design: Use and Abuse of Historical Form (written with Steven Heller) and Some People Can't Surf: The Graphic Design of Art Chantry. In 1995-96, she was a National Arts Journalism Program Fellow at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The fellowship culminated in Lasky spending a month in Sarajevo investigating the effect of the Bosnian war on the city’s artistic culture. An essay based on that experience appeared in the Spring, 1997 issue of The American Scholar. The same year, she won the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writing that demonstrates warmth, humor, and a concern for social issues. Lasky has lectured on design from Salt Lake City to Sarajevo. Since 2001, she has been an adjunct faculty member of the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts, where she teaches a magazine workshop.