Design Criticism: Stuart Bailey, Sasha Frere-Jones, and Rob Giampietro

SVA's Design Criticism reading series: Stuart Bailey, Rob Giampietro, Sasha Frere-Jones and Jody Rosen speak on the topic of music.

Stuart Bailey is a designer and the co-editor (with Peter Bilak) of /dot dot dot/, an internationally acclaimed visual culture publication with a proclivity for the marginal or overlooked. He is also co-proprietor (with David Reinfurt) of Dexter Sinister, a Just-In-Time Workshop & Occasional Bookstore, which offers an experimental model for a more efficient working practice.

Sasha Frere-Jones is a musician and the pop-music critic at /The New Yorker/. He also writes for /The New York Times/, /The Village Voice/, /The Morning News /and /Slate/, among other publications, and his work has been anthologized four times in the "Da Capo Best Music Writing" series. Before joining The New Yorker, Sasha was a critic for the Village Voice and the founding member of the band Ui.

Rob Giampietro is a designer, writer, curator and teacher. He is a principal at Giampietro+Smith, the NYC design studio he co-founded in 2003 with partner Kevin Smith. He writes for /dot dot dot,/ /Emigre/ and Design Observer and has worked on projects for Pentagram, /The New York Times Magazine/, and Hearst Publications. Rob advises senior projects at Parsons School of Design and has taught in the graduate graphic design program at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Jody Rosen is the music critic for /Slate/ magazine as well as a contributor to /The New York Times/ and /The Nation/. He is the author of White Christmas: The Story of an American Song, (Scribner, 2002) a book about Irving Berlin's most famous composition, recorded by hundreds of artists, most notably Bing Crosby.