Design Observer Community Session: Barbara Glauber

Please join us Thursday, February 25 at 12:30 Eastern | 9:30 am Pacific for the next installment of our monthly Design Observer Community Sessions.

This month, we welcome graphic designer and design educator Barbara Glauber, who founded the design studio Heavy Meta in 1990. Based in New York, the studio focuses on projects for cultural institutions, collaborating with artists, curators, and editors to create publications, interdisciplinary exhibitions, information graphics, and identities. Barbara has an MFA from CalArts, teaches design at Yale and Cooper Union, and is a co-curator of the Typographics Conference.

We are excited to have Barbara joining us next week, and hope you will join us, too. Get your ticket today.

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