Designed Objects 2018: Walking Forward into the Past

November 29, 2018 at 11:15 am by Rick Valicenti

by Rick Valicenti

November 29, 2018January 18, 2019Filed under:

Designed Objects

Designed Objects cover and feature pages design by Anna Mort and Nick Adam at Thirst

Designed Objects editor Rick Valicenti at Thirst

Cover painting by Michael Jefferson

Designed Objects 2018:

TJ O’Keefe in conversation with Sung Jang

Neil Zuleta nominated by Holly Hunt

Abigail Glaum-Lathbury in conversation with Martin Kastner

Pete Oyler in conversation with Steven Haulenbeek

Benjamin Edgar Gott in conversation with Norman Kelley

Christopher Gentner in conversation with Felicia Ferrone

Michael Savona in conversation with Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth

Luke Wong in conversation with Mark Kinsley and Tamera Leigh Staten

Jennefer Hoffmann in conversation with Ania Jaworska

Rick Valicenti has led the Thirst design studio since its founding in 1989 and has established himself as one of the most visionary designers in the country, winning the 2011 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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