Archived story — This article was published in March 2007 and is preserved as part of the University's news archive. Information in this story was accurate at the time of publication but may no longer be current.

Graphic arts luminary Rick Valicenti to speak

BOWLING GREEN, O.—Visionary graphic designer Rick Valicenti will discuss his recent work at Bowling Green State University March 16 in a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumnus Lecture. The free 4 p.m. talk will be held in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater and is open to all.

Valicenti, who earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from Bowling Green, is the founder of Thirst, a Chicago-based design group devoted to the creation of art with function. Thirst works are in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City.

Valicenti is also a former president of the Society of Typographic Art, a board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts/Chicago and a juror for the National Endowment for the Arts' Presidential Design Awards. He has had one-man shows in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. A reception will follow his presentation, which is also part of the BGSU School of Art ARTalks series.

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(Posted March 13, 2007)

Updated: 12/02/2017 06:14AM