Tickets available for members on May 6 and nonmembers on May 13.
Designer, letterpress printer, activist, and artist Rick Griffith is a recent recipient of a prestigious 2025 AIGA medal for excellence in design—the most distinguished honor in the US for communication design. Griffith has taken an unconventional path that has led him to where he is today. Join Griffith for a night of discovery as he presents his Design and Culture presentation at this year’s annual lecture hosted by AIGA Boston (The Professional Association for Design) and ICA/Boston, a partnership that started over 18 years ago to highlight the work of today’s leading designers and thinkers.
Make the most of your ICA visit! Enjoy a drink and light bite in our waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar, featuring natural wines and more.
About the Speaker: Rick Griffith
Rick Griffith has been a fixture in Denver’s creative sector since arriving in 1996. He is a former Denver Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, and founder and partner in MATTER, the ambidextrous design consultancy with a print shop for the public good, and a bookstore/venue for Denver’s intersectional community of revolutionaries, designers, activists, and other thinking persons. For over 25 years has been challenging the traditional boundaries of retail and studio practice to become something intentionally unruly, non-binary, collaborative, and pluralistic. He speaks globally on Design, Ethics, Typography, and his prolific creative practice. His work is sometimes collected and can be found in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum, Tweed Museum, New York’s Poster House, Butler Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts at Columbia University, and the Letterform Archive.