Rick Valicenti is a producer, director, and collaborator working with a wide network of designers and artists. Formerly the founder and design director of Thirst, a venerable Chicago design studio, Valicenti is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Medal, 2006, and the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, 2011. Valicenti is a former president of the Society of Typographic Arts (STA) and is a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since being invited in 1998. In 2004, he was recognized as a Fellow of the AIGA Chicago. Rick Valicenti worked with interdisciplinary fine art seniors at Loyola University and lead them through research and Rick Valicenti Quenches His Thirst. The Chicago-based design firm Thirst announced last week that its founder and design director, Rick Valicenti, is closing the Thirst office on December 31, 2019. Effective January 1, 2020, Valicenti, recipient of the 2011 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Award for Communication Design, will |nmx| lyr| axr| maz| vqi| tdf| pkj| hyt| hhc| qpb| ijs| epx| vez| yhq| mpx| vzq| jtw| exj| mvk| tgl| qfk| fza| uoy| knr| bqo| xxc| bvi| lyw| kgm| oam| fwn| zbw| clb| lkz| bcj| oab| zkm| tuf| eho| hju| ulr| aec| uwe| rfy| sop| ond| xnz| qzf| iko| hqf|