VCFA faculty member and design practitioner Silas Munro visits Milwaukee this weekend for a residency, opening, and dialogue. During his residency, he will be embarking on a “typographic dérive” throughout the city, resulting in a typeface inspired by Milwaukee. The work will be on view at an opening reception this Friday, March 25, from 6–9 p.m. An informal dialogue with Munro follows on Saturday, March 26, at 1 p.m. Both events are hosted at Mobile Design Box.
Designers Talking with Silas Munro
Opening Reception: Fri, March 25, 6–9 p.m.
Follow-up Dialogue: Sat, March 26, 1–2 p.m.
Check out the entire Designers Talking series here!
About Silas Munro:
Silas Munro is a designer who utilizes a multi-modal practice to inspire people to be the best versions of themselves in order to effect positive change on society as a whole. He earned his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. His design studio, Poly-Mode primarily works with cultural institutions and community based organizations including The Center for Urban Pedagogy, MoMA, Walker Art Center, and Wynwood in Miami, Florida. He has been a critic at CalArts, Maryland Institute College of Art, North Carolina State, and York University. Munro serves as Assistant Professor of Art and Graduate Director, Experience Design, Miami University and Founding Faculty in the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Munro’s research addresses the relationship between the designer’s personal identity, formal systems and strategies s/he utilizes, and how both interact with the communities s/he serves. He is particularly interested in the often unaddressed post-colonial relationship between design and marginalized communities. This has taken tangible form in design work and writing that have been published via books, exhibitions, and websites in Germany, Japan, Korea, the US, and the UK such as: Chronicle Books, IDEA Magazine, and Slanted Magazine.
