PENNY W. STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES

February 8, 2007

2X4 Design

People & Pixels

2x4 is a multidisciplinary design firm founded in 1995 by Michael Rock, Susan Sellers, and Georgianna Stout. The studio's focus is on the dynamic visual display of unexpected content for art, design, architecture, and cultural clients. 2x4 works in print, film/video, web, and environment design on such projects as graphic design, wallpaper and film for the Prada New York Epicenter; environmental design for new Vitra showrooms; sets and costumes for Trisha Brown Dance Company; environmental design for a new building in downtown Tokyo with Tadao Ando; the editorial concept for a special issue of Wired magazine with AMO; and a new line of textiles for Knoll.

Co-sponsored by AIGA Detroit, the Professional Association for Design.

Video

• Watch/download the podcast of this lecture in iTunes.

Selected Bibliography

• Apple - Pro - Profiles - 2x4
• 2x4, Inc.
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Awards
• Bonney, Grace. "Archinect : Features : I am a 2x4 Junky." Archinect (Oct 08, 2004).
• "Eavesdrop 19_11.17.2006." The Architect's Newspaper.
• Moreno, Shonquis. "GuilT complex." Frame.50 (2006): 156-161.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/. Just type in the name of the journal, then select the correct volume/issue.
• Rubinstein, Rhonda and David Peters. "Larger than life itself: 2x4 at SFMOMA: 2x4 / Design series 3: SFMOMA13 May–27 November 2005." Eye Review (Winter 2005).
• Walters, Helen. "To see and be seen." Creative Review 26.pt. 8 (2006): 32-37.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/. Just type in the name of the journal, then select the correct volume/issue.
• Michael Rock. AIA SF/SFMOMA Public lecture. Architecture Radio. Recorded 9/22/2005, Published 12/01/2005.
• Rosa, Joseph, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2x4. San Francisco, Calif. : Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Location: Art Architecture & Engineering Library. Call Number: NK 1412 .A14 R67 2005