A Contemporary Design Lecture Series DESIGN NOW The University of Missouri - Kansas City Fine Arts Building 5100 Rockhill Road Kansas City, Missouri CHIP KIDD September 9 | 6:00 pm Chip Kidd's book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Print, TIME, Graves. KATHERINE MCCOY October 11 | 7:30 pm Katherine McCoy co-chaired Cranbrook's Academy's Department of Design for 24 years. She is a 1999 AIGA Medalist and has served as a vice president of the AIGA. She writes frequently on design criticism and history. STEFAN SAGMEISTER November 6 | 8:00 pm Stefan Sagmeister is among today's most important graphic designers. Born in Austria, he now lives and works in New York. His long-standing collaborators include the AIGA and musicians, David Byrne and Lou Reed. DAVID CARSON December 1 | 6:30 pm David Carson is best known for his innovative magazine design Ray Gun, and use of experimental typography. Carson, one of the top influential graphic designers of the nineties.