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A brownish poster with black, red to yellow gradient and purple text that says: MFA Design: The Designer As Author Entrepreneur. Designer Illustrator Author Ross MacDonald Lecture Series. There is also a MFA DESIGN and a blue green gradient SVA NYC logo.

Guest Lecture: Ross MacDonald

Guest Lecture: Ross MacDonald

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Poster by Mitchell Johnson

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By Nigel Sielegar

Today's Guest Speaker is MFAD's perennial favorite Ross MacDonald, illustrator, typographer, author, printer's devil and movie prop maker. He is the proprietor of the Brightwork Press.
If we are lucky he will talk about the unusual techniques he uses to make his props look old. (Hint: Water in a bathtub.)

A brownish poster with black, red to yellow gradient and purple text that says: MFA Design: The Designer As Author Entrepreneur. Designer Illustrator Author Ross MacDonald Lecture Series.

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New York, NY 10010

310 East 22nd St - 5th Floor

New York, NY 10010

310 East 22nd St - 5th Floor

New York, NY 10010

(212) 592-2600

mfadesign@sva.edu

(212) 592-2600

mfadesign@sva.edu

(212) 592-2600

mfadesign@sva.edu