Contemporary design is international: you find the same skyscrapers, movies, fashion, magazines and fast food in any modern city around the world. Since designers speak an international language, then why is it important to understand different cultures? There are good reasons. Designers ought to be conscious of how culturally embedded they are. Regional identity is a contemporary, anti-global undercurrent in all design disciplines, so designers need to be aware of other cultures.

Designing for a foreign culture adds an extra dimension of research and analysis to the usual rational and creative processes of design, and designers benefit from understanding how to operate beyond their own cultural matrix.

Tuesday September 24th @ 6.00pm
Casey Plaza Theatre,
Building 10, Level 4,
Swanston Street

Info & bookings call 99255347

email: maya.huxley@rmit.edu.au

As this will be a popular lecture I advise you book early.

Garry Emery (Honorary Doctorate, RMIT University, 2002)
1980 founded Emery Vincent Design
1980 to 2001 design director Emery Vincent Design
2001 founded Garry Emery Design
Emery Vincent Design is an established Australian design practice with multidisciplinary skills and offices in Melbourne and Sydney.

The practice is a united collection of functional design, marketing and strategic planning disciplines. It is one of Australia's largest design practices, servicing a broad range of clients, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of corporate and brand identity, corporate communications, motion graphics and environmental graphic design.

Publications
2002 Garry Emery, 'outside inside out, inside outside in', Garry Emery Design, Melbourne

International awards
2002 Good Design Awards, The Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture & Design, USA

Temporary exhibitions
2002 More or Less, Garry Emery Design, Shanghai Graphic Design Association, Shanghai, China

Permanent collections
Museum die Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Gottheiner Fine Arts Museum, St Louis, USA
Poster Museum Wilanow, Poland
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Mexico City Metropolitan University, Mexico
The Merrill C. Berman Collection, New York
Museum of Victoria, Australia