BREAKFAST CLUB: WILDE TEACHING

You’re a practicing designer and you teach, too. Maybe you’ve never been formally trained in design education, but you feel passionate about teaching and are always looking for ways to be a better instructor and mentor.

Join visionary Richard Wilde, Chairman of the world-famous Design and Advertising Department at the School of Visual Arts, to talk about evolving from being a good to great design educator. Richard will speak to strategies for making inspiring syllabi and what goes into creating optimal conditions for motivating students and yourself. More advanced topics include navigating adjunct teaching in NYC, how to graduate to full time professorship, what he looks for in a new hire and the impact of new technology on design education.

RICHARD WILDE
Richard is the Chair of the Advertising and Design department at the School of Visual Arts. He is also the principal of Wilde Design and has won hundreds of awards including gold medals from the Art Directors Club, One Club, Andys, AIGA, Society of Illustrators, and many more. SVA produced a book titled the “Wilde Years” spanning 40 years of Richard’s graduates’ work that has shaped visual culture.

Richard is also a teacher, art director, illustrator who has lectured on 5 continents and has written many books, the most famous being Visual Literacy published by Watson Guptill and is a laureate of the ADC Hall of Fame and was inducted into the One Club Hall of Fame in 2013.