Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design by Chen Design Associates (Oct 19, 2006)

ICA/AIGA DESIGN SERIES

Perfect Imperfection with Josh Chen

NOTE: This program has been cancelled. If you have purchased tickets for this event, please contact the box office at 617.478.3103 for a refund.

You've probably heard that Perfect is the enemy of Good. It may also be the enemy of Good Design. Our digital tools are calibrated for perfection, but we've sacrificed the human touch, the indelible beauty of handmade elements that derive from our own mortal limitations.

Joshua Chen, founder, principal, and creative director of Chen Design Associates in San Francisco, is author of Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design and Fingerprint No. 2: The Evolution of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design. In this program, Josh will argue that a critical eye, an open heart, and willing hands comprise an Imperfect Storm of creativity that awes through its flaws.

About Chen Design Associates

CDA is a place for collaboration, education and dynamic invention. The award-winning design studio partners with a wide range of clients, from start-up ventures to established corporations, local to global, artistic to analytic. For more than 20 years, CDA has been helping clients find a voice to express the genuine and the necessary, the illuminating and the unexpected. CDA engages clients in the process to foster respect and fuel invention – and together, move people to explore, to wonder, to succeed. Follow the studio on chendesign.com.

This program is made possible through the generosity of Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld.

ICA interpretive programs and materials are made possible by the support of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation.