January 17: A Life in Design & Design History in the UIC Library
Program featuring Charles Harrison and Victor Margolin
Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 5:00 pm
Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago, 801 S. Morgan
Join designer Charles Harrison and Prof. Victor Margolin for a program about Harrison’s industrial design career and the role of an academic library in preserving the history of graphic design.
Charles Harrison’s career illustrates the intersection of the creative and business worlds and is a portfolio of useful and artistically-designed consumer products. His recently-issued book A Life’s Design: the Life and Work of Industrial Designer Charles Harrison (Chicago: Ibis Design, c2005) chronicles this career including his 32 years of designing products from curling irons to lawnmowers for Sears Roebuck & Co.
Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus in the UIC Department of Art History, and a historian of graphic design, has published widely on the impact of graphic art on modern life. He also organized the symposium “African-American Designers: The Chicago Experience Then and Now,” held at the DuSable Museum in February 2000.
Both Chuck Harrison and Victor Margolin have given their professional archives to the Special Collections Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago Library, strengthening the Library’s focus on graphic design history in Chicago and the ground-breaking work of African-American designers.
A reception and book signing will follow the program. For more information, please contact Linda Naru (312 413 0394, or Linda Naru@uic.edu).
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