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In 2020 I created a new bio for New York-based designer Noah Venezia. (Full disclosure: Noah also created the design for my 2015 album Blue.) To learn more about Noah, read what I wrote for him below.
Biography
Noah Venezia specializes in design services for cultural organizations and artists, with expertise spanning visual identities, books, editorial design, exhibitions, signage, and websites. Possessing a critical eye informed by classical modernist and contemporary design thought, his coherent approach maneuvers the interplay of text, image, and overall concept across print, physical and digital spaces. In addition to operating his own design practice since 2015, he is a past adjunct professor at Pratt Institute and currently teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.
Since completing his MFA at Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem, Netherlands in 2012, Venezia has produced an array of design work that adapts to the varied needs of artists, curators, and institutions in presenting art and ideas to the public. This has included devising visual identities for exhibitions such as Sitelines 2018 Biennial, Casa Tomada, at SITE Santa Fe (2018); Adriana Blidaru/Living Content for Living Content Live at Times Square Space (2018); Bard CCS’s Visitors at Governors Island, curated by Tom Eccles and Ruba Katrib (2015); and Columbia GSAPP Gallery’s Visualizing Universalism: The UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition, 1949-1953, curated by Mark Watsua & Adam Bandler (2014).
He has created exhibition materials and publications, including the exhibition catalogue for Alex da Corte’s Free Roses at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2016); The Sculpture Center’s Puddle, Pothole, Portal exhibition catalog, edited by Marie Ceruti, curated by Ruba Katrib (2015); and materials for the Storefront for Art & Architecture exhibition Aircraft Carrier, curated by Erez Ella, Milana Gitzin Adiram, and Dan Handel (2013). Venezia has also designed for special projects such as The Parrot’s Tail by Tamar Guimarães & Kasper Akhøj, an artist publication accompanying For Personne et les Autres, Vincent Meessen and guests, at the Belgium Pavilion curated by Katerina Gregos for the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
Among his magazine and book design credits are the Yale School of Architecture’s Constructs Magazine edited by Nina Rappaport with Jeff Ramsey (Fall 2015); Cosmic Mental Therapy, published with Werkplaats Typografie (2013); Mind Games by Geirthrudur Finnbogadottir Hjorvar, published with Werkplaats Typografie (2012); and Mode Design, Hotel Modez, Arnhem: Het Gesamtkunstwerk van Piet Paris by José Teunissen, Hanka van der Voet, published by ArtEz Press (2012).
Other visual identity work has included Artist Alex da Corte’s website and the Blue vinyl album by Kayla Guthrie for Mixed Media Recordings (2015).