New York Times graphics and multimedia editor Tala Safié discusses her transition from print to digital, her penchant for playful experimentation, and the power that good design can wield.

Cliff is a user-experience designer at Google and author of ‘User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play’ which was called a “tour de force” by the New York Times and was also named an Amazon Best Book of 2019. Previously, he was head of UX and product at Fast Company; the founder of Fast Company’s design site, Co.Design; and an editor at Wired. Under his leadership, Co.Design became an award-winning source of insight and inspiration for a generation of designers.

To kick off our Spring Lecture series for 2023, Products of Design was delighted to welcome Cameron Tonkinwise, who gives an annual lecture to our students and guests. This year's lecture is entitled "All Care, No Responsibility: Everything Service Designers Need to Know About Politics But Were Afraid to Ask."

Chloé Cooper Jones is a writer based in New York City. In 2020, Chloé was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for “Fearing for His Life,” a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner. She was the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University. Both grants supported her latest book, Easy Beauty, a memoir which finds the author—after unexpectedly becoming a mother—embarking on a journey across the globe to reclaim the spaces, both physical and emotional, that she’d been denied and denied herself.

On September 22, 2022, MFA Products of Design was pleased to host a guest lecture by writer, educator, and advocate Sara Hendren. Amy Whitaker was a founding member of the faculty in SVA's MFA in Products of Design where she taught Business Structures. She is currently an Associate Professor at New York University in the Steinhardt School’s department of art and art professions. She teaches business to artists, art to businesspeople, and economics to arts managers. She started her career in art museums including the Guggenheim, MoMA, and Tate.