Speaker
Workshops
Moderator
Panelist
To book workshops or speaking engagements, email: michael@michaelrobinsonnyc.com
Engagements include: Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Burning Man Project, Burners Without Borders, Buckminster Fuller Institute, The Open Center, Trimarchi DG, Leaders on Purpose (at the United Nations), Altos de Chavon, Evolver, Hollins University, and Parsons School of Design.
The Decade of Doing: Design for Impact
Take a whole-systems approach toward graphic design to ensure your presentation materials sell your ideas and secure funding.
Learn how best to articulate your organization's goals and build trust visually. We'll outline methods and designs that work for 100% of life.
Transformational Culture in the Digital Age
The way you tell your story in person and online can make all the difference. Unpacking designs role in world-building and navigating experiences with the designer as shaman.
Design and the Performing Arts
How can design be harnessed as cultural producers? How do you grow audiences through communication design? How can design be used to secure funding?
Design + Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics
Originally presented with Milton Glaser.
Let's examine graphic work focusing on social and political concerns from around the globe and its ability to keep democratic societies functioning.
Dimensional Shift: Letterforms
This workshop focuses on the different aspects of type design and symbolic communication. Designers create their own unique alphabets based on a series of exercises.
Mainstream Money for Underground Artists
Based on the original workshop with Android Jones.
Can you make money off art or do you have to have side jobs? What roles do artists need to be fulfilled to be self-sufficient? How do art/design practices run as a business?
Art, Evolution + Initiation: Rites for the Age of Transition
Through unpacking designs role in our rites of passage, we'll create a template for moving forward. What rituals are most needed? What rituals need to be discarded?
Buckminster Superstar: Design for Livingry
Taking a whole-systems perspective to creating pop cultural experiences and brands. Explore connections within integrated, complex worlds through graphic design.
The Design Science Decade: Design for Impact
Take a whole-systems perspective to explore connections within an integrated, complex world through graphic design. We'll outline a plan to fuse communication and product design that works for 100% of life.