February 19, 2010
Back to Ft. Collins for The Language of Design
When do you realize you have something important to say, something worth sharing? A good opportunity can come 35 years after you’ve left college and get an invitation to come back to share what you know. Or at least what they hope you know.
Colorado State has The Monfort Fellowship which affords them the opportunity to invite guest professors, speakers and key alumni back to share and motivate. So I’m headed back to Ft. Collins Colorado to spend several days talking to a wide and diverse audience about what I’m calling the “language of design”. A series of antidotes and observations on how design has become more my way of seeing and engaging the world and the people in it, than a profession. Let’s see how that plays in the foothills of the Rockies. And I want to checkout the New Belgium Brewery, the pride of Ft. Collins.
I’ll also spend a day with my professor from the 70’s Phil Risbeck, with the International Poster Show and his graphic design students. A lot has changed in 35 years. The place, the people, the points of view. Comparing then to now could be a great perspective-giver for all of us. . . Probably why the Monfort Fellowship was conceived in the first place- between wise old Rams late one night over a pint of Fat Tire Ale. Probably not. -RM