In this unique workshop led by esteemed designer Lawrence Azerrad, participants will explore the practice of speculative design, which is examining the unknown through design, and fueling creativity through refreshed means of looking and listening. The workshop will be powerfully focused and fun. Participants will conceptualize, develop and design publication format pieces (this could be a book, a zine, a digital platform and much more). In the process you will spark fresh understandings of your work, your practice will evolve, take new shape, and find deeper and more focused understandings of your own work.

 

Each day is spent in rotation between mentorship meetings with the instructor, design process seminars, presentations by guest artists, and group critiques.

 

Lawrence Azerrad is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Macroscopic. Lawrence is a two-time Grammy Award-winning creative director, author, and curator.  He was the lead curator of The Future Happened: Designing The Future of Music, an online music and speculative design exhibit with the Museum of Design Atlanta. His initiative, Designing The Future of Music, includes programs at the Royal College of Art, the Imperial College of London and California College of the Arts. He is the author of Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde (Prestel, 2018), Amazon’s 2018 Arts & Photography selection of the year. Lawrence co-wrote his second book, Mirror Sound, A Look into the People and Processes Behind Self-Recorded Music (Prestel, 2020), with Spencer Tweedy. Lawrence has spoken on design and inspiration at the V&A Museum, London, at TEDxUCLA, the Smithsonian, and at universities and professional organizations nationwide and internationally.