SUSAN SELLERS & MICHAEL ROCK July 22- 26 Rock and Sellers bring their perspective and process from 2x4, a studio they co-founded in 1994. Comprised of designers, writers, and art directors working in print, motion, web, and environmental design, 2x4 practitioners focus exclusively on issues of art, design, architecture and culture. Cities and Signs Despite the title this is NOT an environmental design workshop. The basic tenets of contemporary design theory will be introduced, using the city as both subject and metaphor. Class work, which will cross several different media, will focus on issues of difference, diagram, subjectivity, voice, indeterminancy, and the construction of a reader. BIO's Susan Sellers is a partner in 2x4 and lecturer at Yale University School of Art. She has been a visiting design critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ohio State University School of Architecture and University of Texas at Austin. Her articles have appeared in a number of journals including Eye, Design Issues and Visible Language. She has held positions in several studios including Total Design and UNA in Amsterdam. Sellers holds a B.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.A. in American Studies from Yale University concentrating on early twentieth-century material culture. Michael Rock is a partner in 2x4 and an Associate Professor of Design at the Yale University School of Art. In addition, he is a participant in the multi-disciplinary studio AMO. From 1984?91 he was Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. His writing on design has appeared in a variety of publications including I.D., Print, the AIGA Journal and the British journal Eye. He holds a B.A. in Humanities from Union College and a M.F.A in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of the 1999/2000 Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome.