natalia ilyin
media inquiriesNatalia Ilyin writes about design and its effect on the ways we live and think.
She is a brand consultant for nonprofit and NGO clients, and has worked as a graphic designer, art director and as the Director of Programs for AIGA national. She has taught at Yale University, The Cooper Union and the University of Washington, and she currently teaches a workshop in semiotics every Fall at Rhode Island School of Design. Natalia was named Critic for the MFA in Graphic Design at RISD in 2009-2010. She is the co-director of a refugee-relief organization that provides microgrants on the Thai-Burmese border, and-- relatedly-- she currently teaches "Design for Social Change" at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She also teaches design history and Sophomore and Senior studios there. Her most recent book, Chasing the Perfect: Thoughts on Modernist Design in Our Time, is a personal look at the philosophy of modernism and its effect on life in our era. Natalia has lectured in Art Center College of Design's Toyota lecture series and has given talks and workshops at Microsoft, Boeing, RISD, MECA, CCA, the Wolfsonian Museum, The Henry Art Gallery, The Frauncis Tavern Museum, various conferences and many other places she can't remember right this minute. Her articles have been published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Portland Oregonian, the Miami Herald, Metropolis, STEP, Adbusters, Communication Arts, 2+3D, and in several design writing anthologies. She is at work on her third book. For information about Chasing the Perfect,
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