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This program is at capacity. If you can’t make it to this event in person, tune-in to the live video stream at cooperhewitt.org/live. After the event, find the archived video on cooperhewitt.org/videos.

Test your knowledge, win prizes, and explore the role of storytelling in the design process in a delightful evening of short talks and trivial disputes. Cooper Hewitt curator Ellen Lupton will talk about her new book, Design Is Storytelling, a guide to narrative thinking for designers. Also on deck: Peter Mendelsund, a brilliant graphic designer and prolific writer who brings stories to life with his iconic book covers, and Dan Venne, a creative director and lead producer at Man Made Music, who designed original audio content for Cooper Hewitt’s interactive exhibition Hear, See, Play: Designing with Sound. Overseeing the evening’s festivities will be Adam Kesner, Minister of Information at Trivial Dispute. Throughout the evening Kesner will plie the audience with design trivia challenges and there will be a book signing with Lupton and Mendelsund. Cash wine bar.

Dan Venne, sound designer, Man Made Music

 

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