Press Room
Werner Design Werks Presents at Art Insights
For Immediate Release: March 24, 2008
(Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah) The SUU Department of Art and Design will feature Sarah Nelson Forss from Werner Design Werks in this week’s Art Insights, Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. in the J.L. Sorenson P.E. Building, Room 101. Forss will present “All in a Day's Werk”, a discussion of design philosophy and business practices.
Sarah Nelson Forss is one half of the two-person design team of Werner Design Werks. The Minneapolis-St. Paul studio has projects that range from book design, posters and promotional materials to package design and identity development. Werner Design clients include Moët Hennessy, Rizzoli Books, Mohawk Paper, Target, MTV Latino, Levi’s, fX Network, Blu Dot furniture, Chronicle Books, Minnesota Public Radio and Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day.
Their work is part of the permanent collection at Toronto’s Musee des Arts Decoratifs. They have been recognized with awards from the Type Directors Club, Communication Arts, American Center for Design, ID Magazine, American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Art Directors Club, and Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual.
Art Insights is a weekly program hosted during the Fall and Spring semesters by the Art and Design faculty. In Art Insightsstudents and community members meet weekly to attend gallery openings and experience presentations and discussions by visiting artists and art educators from around the nation who share their work and insights.
Admission is free, and the general public is invited to attend.
For more information on SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at 435.865.8800 or visit www.suu.edu/arts.