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California Institute of the Arts

David Karwan

The CAGD Visiting Designer Lecture Series

Event Information

Date: Oct. 15

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: CalArts Campus; A101

About:

The CAGD Visiting Designer Lecture Series presents, David Karwan (MFA ‘12), Los Angeles-based graphic designer, educator, photographer, and writer who currently serves as Creative Director of Graphic Design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he has worked since 2012, and has taught typography and senior projects at California State University, Los Angeles. His work has been featured in exhibitions including Chris Hamamoto’s 2023 Unrealized Archive 7 and Jon Sueda’s 2014 All Possible Futures, and in publications including Idea, Slanted, and Inside Out & Upside Down: Posters from CalArts 1980–2019.

Event poster for David Karwan’s visiting designer lecture at CalArts on October 15, 2026, at 4:30 PM in A101, featuring a diagonal sequence of numbered chartreuse squares with abstract black-and-white symbols.

Poster design by Ashleigh Kawaoka (MFA2 Graphic Design)