Carin Goldberg: By the Seat of her Pants

Can you ever be too inspired? Definitely not.
So after the sold-out night with Arem Duplessis, and the quickly-selling-get-your-tickets-already! night with James Victore, who could be next? It only seemed perfect to ask our Secret Santa for a night from Carin Goldberg. And Santa came through.

Carin will talk about how she became a graphic designer and how dumb luck, determination, some talent, supportive friends and good timing allowed her to build a body of work that some people (All of us!! -- Ed.) seem to think is worth an hour of your time. Of course, there will be lots of pictures.


Carin Goldberg
Principal, Carin Goldberg Design

Carin Goldberg was born in New York City and studied at the Cooper Union School of Art. She began her career as a staff designer at CBS Television, CBS Records and Atlantic Records before establishing her own firm, Carin Goldberg Design, in 1982.

Over the following two decades Carin designed hundreds of book jackets for all  the major American publishing houses, including Simon & Schuster, Random House, Alfred A. Knopf, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Harper Collins, Doubleday and Hyperion, and dozens of album covers for record labels such as Warner Bros., Motown, Nonesuch, Interscope and EMI. The breadth of her work covers artists as diverse as Kurt Vonnegut and Susan Sontag, Dvorák and Madonna. Her book jacket for the 1986 reissue of James Joyce's "Ulysses" has become an icon of postmodern design.

In recent years her image making has expanded to publication design and brand consulting for clients including AR and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. From 2003 to 2004 she was Creative Director at Time Inc. Custom Publishing, where she designed and consulted on publications for the New York Stock Exchange, Microsoft, Citigroup and Gallup. Her recent projects include design of the book "Last Letters Home: Voices of Americans from the Battlefields of Iraq" (Life Books, 2005) based on the HBO documentary.

So please join us Monday, December 8th, for the last Speakeasy before the holidays, where the cocktails, the crowd and the conversation are all fun.



CARIN GOLDBERG
By the Seat of Her Pants

Monday, December 8, 2008
Wild Project Theatre
195 East 3rd Street (between Aves. A & B)
map here or below

7:00 drinks
7:30 discussion


Tickets:
SPD Members, $10 in advance ($15 CASH ONLY at the door)
Non-members, $15 in advance ($20 CASH ONLY at the door)

RSVP: Please call SPD at 212 223 3332 by 5:00PM on Friday, December 5th for advance tickets while they last; tickets purchased at the door the evening of the event (if available) will be $5 higher, CASH ONLY.

RSVP early! All tickets, and seating, are first come, first served.