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Dec 2022
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017 • RICHARD ZEID

The Chicago Graphic Design Club
About this episode

Our guest is educator, designer, and ceramist Richard Zeid. For the last three decades, Zeid has taught design at Columbia College in Chicago and designed for many clients, from not-for-profit theatres to Fortune 500 corporations.

In this episode, Zeid speaks with hosts Christian Solorzano and Jaime Cisneros about his perspective on teaching, analog approaches to making, creative practices, graphic design curriculums, and more.

Music by the band Eighties Slang.

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