natalia ilyin
media inquiriesNatalia Ilyin writes about design and its effect on the ways we live and think.
She teaches design history, semiotics, design theory, criticism and "Design for Social Change" at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. For the last ten years she has also led a workshop in semiotics every Fall at Rhode Island School of Design, and she recently was named to the founding faculty for a new Graphic Design MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Natalia acted as Critic for the MFA in Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design in 2009-10. She has taught at Yale University, The Cooper Union and the University of Washington, and acted as Critic for the Graphic Design MFA at Yale University from 1996-1999. When not teaching, she consults on brand-story development with nonprofit and NGO clients, and is the co-director of SisterScarf, a refugee-relief program of WorldAid, Inc., which provides microgrants for community-identified initiatives on the Thai-Burmese border. Natalia has been a graphic designer, an art director, a creative director and the National Director of Programs for the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York, and has lectured and given talks and workshops at Microsoft, Boeing, Rhode Island School of Design, Maine College of Art, California College of Art, Art Center College of Design's Toyota lecture series, the Wolfsonian Museum, The Henry Art Gallery, at various conferences and at 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, Eye, Communication Arts, 2+3D, and in several anthologies of design criticism. 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. She is at work on her third book. For information about Chasing the Perfect,
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