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Insights 2021 Design Lecture Series

Expand your understanding of design with the Insights Design Lecture Series, presenting five leading designers from around the country. This year’s program takes advantage of our current digital reality with a few experimental formats, including pre-recorded designer-created videos and live-mixed multimedia Zoom events. The lineup includes LA multidisciplinarian Daniel DeSure, hyper-aesthete Hassan Rahim, information artist and biohacker Heather Dewey-Hagborg in conversation with Chelsea Manning, and Bon Iver collaborators and artists Eric Timothy Carlson and Aaron Anderson.

Building a Vague Hypebeast: Fragmented Fashion by Joshua McGarvey

Joshua McGarvey is a Minnesota-based clothing designer, fashion artist, and installation/video artist who creates garments under the name Uselding Fridays. The results are often loud, colorful pieces—uncanny mashups of styles, brands and silhouettes which frequently collage together elements of second hand or deadstock garments. These chaotic amalgams offer concise, wearable critiques of the love/hate relationship we have with our hyper-capitalistic environment, often reducing brand symbolism down to abstract texture (a technique he refers to as “ambient distraction”).