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Small Talks are intimate evenings featuring presentations by speakers who represent a broad spectrum of visual culture. Expose yourself to various passions, disciplines, ways of working, and ways of seeing. Join fellow members in the Bumble and bumble auditorium in the Meatpacking District (after wine and hors d’oeuvres in the library) for a series that is sure to inspire and inform.

Small Talk No. 1: Jeffrey Zeldman, Tuesday 17 October 2006
Jeffrey Zeldman was one of the web's first designers, teachers, and bloggers. He publishes A List Apart, the magazine for people who make websites; runs Happy Cogâ„¢, an agency of web design specialists; and is cofounder, with Eric Meyer, of the Event Apart design conference. In 1998, he co-founded The Web Standards Project, a grassroots coalition that ended the browser wars by persuading Netscape and Microsoft to support the same technologies in their browsers. He has written many articles and two books, notably Designing With Web Standards, now in its second edition.

Small Talk No. 2: Marc Joseph, Tuesday 28 November 2006
Marc Joseph was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Kent State University. Solo exhibitions of pictures from his first monograph American Pitbull (Steidl, 2003) have been mounted in the United States and the Netherlands. Joseph lives and works in New York City, where he also teaches at the School of Visual Arts.

Small Talk No. 3: Peter Arkle + Amy Goldwasser, Tuesday 12 December 2006
Peter Arkle and Amy Goldwasser live together in one apartment on Avenue C and work together in the apartment next door. Peter is an illustrator who draws regularly for Bumble and bumble and has been writing, illustrating, and publishing Peter Arkle News regularly since 1993 (when he was still at art school in London). Amy is a freelance editor and writer, specializing in launch consulting. She also teaches magazine editing in the Columbia Publishing Course and at NYU. Peter and Amy often end up having completely different experiences working for the same clients, including the New York Times, the New Yorker, New York Magazine, ID, Absolute, Lexus, Pentagram, and Sullivan. Only rarely do they get to work together on the same project—or at least get paid to do so, Amy is the editor of Peter Arkle News—but, as they share a home and an office, they could be said to collaborate on everything. Peter grew up in Penicuik, near Edinburgh. Amy’s from Detroit.

Small Talk No. 4: Emmanuelle Linard, Tuesday 16 January 2007
Emmanuelle Linarg is the Executive Director of Edelkoort, Inc. With a background in creative, production and public relations, she spent 10 years with the European office developing trend forecasts, directing production and lecturing in the U.S., Canada, Europe and South America. Emmanuelle now manages the U.S. office based in New York, and develops the consultations for the U.S. market with Li Edelkoort, the full-time staff in Paris and the worldwide network of specialists affiliated to Trend Union and Studio Edelkoort.

The fonts for this event's graphic, Adobe Garamond, Baskerville Semi-Bold, ITC Zapf International and Avenir were chose by AIGA members Katie Repind, Jedd Flanscha, Mark Miller and Bart Szyszka. The colors, PMS 021, 4975, and 193 were picked by by AIGA members Yue Chen, Koichi Yanagidaira, Jennifer Holst and Jennifer Serota.