Taking design for granted
A few weeks ago I attended what I had hoped would be a very informative and very enjoyable event called “The Dinner Party” that was thrown by the New York branch of AIGA. The speakers scheduled were the principals of AvroKO (designers and owners of my favorite restaurant Public and a large reason that I decided to attend), chef Dan Barber (of Blue Hill), pastry chef and molecular gastronomist Will Goldfarb, and designer Matteo Bologna (of Mucca Design).
By all rights, it sounded like it should have been a lively discussion, especially considering that the moderator was Christine Muhlke, a deputy editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, who (at least on paper) seemed like she should’ve been an ideal person to get these disparate voices conversing with each other about the extremely multifaceted topic of “food and design.”
I am extremely sad to report that the event was less than a success.
