Current Work
Michael Bierut | Pentagram
Recorded: November 4, 2015
Michael Bierut is a partner of Pentagram, a multi-disciplinary design firm with offices in New York, London, Berlin, Austin, and San Francisco. Bierut works across a broad mix of scales and project types—from environmental graphics, to corporate and institutional identities, to posters and publications. For his entire career, Bierut has worked with architects and faced the challenge of how ideas realized in three dimensions can be conveyed compellingly in two.
In his first Current Work lecture, “How to Make Architecture Out of Paper,” Bierut recounts working with clients in the field of architecture. He briefly speaks about his early career mentored by Massimo and Lella Vignelli before taking the audience through his recent work, describing both the decisions and process that influenced each project.
In his lecture, Bierut discusses the following projects:
Yale School of Architecture posters (beginning in 1998)
Lever House signage
Celebration, Florida signage
The New York Times Building signage
Museum of Art and Design institutional identity
New World Symphony institutional identity
Walk NYC signage
Governors Island signage
AIA brand repositioning
The Architectural League of New York institutional identity and various posters, graphics, and publication designs
The Current Work series invites significant international figures who powerfully influence contemporary architectural practice and shape the future of the built environment to present their work and ideas to a public audience.
