Getting Upper: Graphic Designers and Artists Reconsider the Alphabet

Reconsider. Re-imagine. Re-explore . . .the very symbols that define our language and meaning. Learn how twenty-six designers re-imagined the letter and explore what a letter can be. Join us for a discussion with featured designers from the Pasadena Museum of Art's exhibition Getting Upper, an exhibition inspired by language-based experimentation and how it can create new avenues of cultural expression.

Panelist:

Rebeca Mendez is a graphic designer and artist who operates a multidisciplinary studio focused on design for art, architecture and other cultural clients. Her work is represented in public and private collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Design Museum, Denver Art Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Recently her work was exhibited at the Pompidou Centre in Paris as part of the exhibition ‘Morphosis: Continuities of the Incomplete.’

Jon Sueda is co-founder of the design studio Stripe, specializing in printed material for art and culture. He is also the co-editor of Task Newsletter, and the co-organizer of AtRandom events. Sueda has lectured, taught workshops and has been visiting critic at numerous college and univeristies both at home and abroad. In 2007, Sueda relocated to the San Francisco area, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Graphic Design Program at California College of the Arts 

Kali Nikitas is an accomplished designer and a partner in the studio, Graphic Design for Love (+$) which focuses on projects that allow her passion for design to outshine any monetary reward. She is also Chair of the Communication Arts department program at the Otis College of Art and Design. Nikitas has received awards from the ACD, AIGA and the Type Directors Club and her work has been published in Emigre, Eye,I.D. and the AIGA Journal.

Event Details 
7:00 pm Drinks and mingling
7:30 pm Panel discussion 
8:30 pm Q&A

Event Cost
This event is free. RSVP is required.

Location and Parking

Pasadena Museum of California Art
490 East Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
http://www.pmcaonline.org/

The museum is located one block north of Colorado Blvd. between Los Robles Ave. and Oakland Ave.
Free parking is available on the ground level of the museum and additional public parking is available across the street on Union.

Go Metro to Getting Upper 
To take the Metro Gold Line to the museum, exit at the Memorial Park station and head south on Arroyo Parkway one block to Union Street. Turn left and head east on Union for about six blocks. The museum is on the south side of Union, just before Oakland Ave.