Celebrated husband-and-wife illustrators Sam Weber and Jillian Tamaki will deliver a joint lecture for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts fall Public Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27.
In addition, Marcelo Spina — founder of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice in Los Angeles — will discuss his work for the Sam Fox School the following evening at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28.
Both talks are free and open to the public and take place in Steinberg Hall Auditorium and will be preceded by receptions at 6 p.m.
Born in Alaska, Weber grew up in Deep River, Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, he moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts.
His illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time magazine and Rolling Stone, among others.
Tamaki, who grew up in Calgary, is illustrator and co-creator — with her cousin, Mariko Tamaki — of the graphic novel “SKIM,” which won the 2009 Doug Wright Award for Best Book and was listed as one of The New York Times’ Best Illustrated Children’s Books.
Her illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly and the Village Voice, among other publications.
Spina — a visiting professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School this fall — was born in Rosario, Argentina, and earned a professional degree from the National University of Rosario and a master’s degree in architecture from Columbia University in New York.
A member of the design faculty at The Southern California Institute of Architecture since 2001, he established PATTERNS in 1999 and remains co-principal with Georgina Huljich.
Over the past decade, PATTERNS has won international recognition for its innovative approach to design and architecture, which fuses advanced computation techniques with an extensive understanding of form, building systems, tectonics and materials.
For more information, call 935-9300 or visit samfoxschool.wustl.edu.