|  | The 
        MIT Media Laboratory is honored to announce this year's 
        Misawa Lecture 
        by Paul Rand
 
 Bartos Theatre, November 14, 1996
 10am to 11:30am
 
 
  
        Please 
          join us as we welcome the canonical figure of American graphic design. 
          
 
 "Paul Rand's stature as one of the world's leading graphic designers 
          is incontestable. For half a century his pioneering work in the field 
          of advertising design and typography has exerted a profound influence 
          on the design profession; he almost single-handedly transformed "commercial 
          art" from a practice that catered to the lowest common denominator 
          of taste to one that could a ssert its place among the other fine arts. 
          Among the numerous clients for whom he has been a consultant and/or 
          designer are the American Broadcasting Company, IBM Corporation, and 
          Westinghouse Electric Corporation." From the cover of Design, Art, 
          and Chaos (Yale University Press) by Paul Rand.
 
 IDEA Magazine interview
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