UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Jon Key, co-founder of the Brooklyn-based design studio Morcos Key, who was featured in Forbes magazine’s “30 under 30 Art and Style” list in 2020, will join the Stuckeman School at Penn State at 6 p.m. on Jan. 19 as a guest of the Department of Graphic Design. Titled “Designing to Amplify,” Key’s talk will discuss using design and art as a means to amplify and empower communities with a focus on queer and transgender communities of color. The event, which is part of the school’s Lecture and Exhibit Series , and will be held in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space and livestreamed by WPSU. Morcos Key, which Key co-founded with Wael Morcos, collaborates with arts and cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations and commercial enterprises in North America and the Middle East to translate its clients’ stories into “visual systems that demonstrate how thoughtful conversation and formal expression make for impactful design.” Services offered by the firm include branding and visual identity, art direction, editorial design, signage and wayfinding, exhibition design, photography and Latin and Arabic type design.

Source: Forbes January 05, 2022 17:15 UTC