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To book engagements email: michael@michaelrobinsonnyc.com

Engagements include

  • Trimarchi Design Festival

  • The Burning Man Project

  • Parsons School of Design

  • Buckminster Fuller Institute

  • Reality Sandwich & Evolver

  • Central Saint Martins

  • Burners Without Borders

  • Leaders on Purpose

  • Hollins University

  • The Open Center

  • Altos de Chavon

  • Conscientia

The Decade of Doing

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Take a whole-systems approach toward graphic design to ensure your presentation materials sell your ideas and secure funding.

Learn how best to articulate your organization's goals and build trust visually. We'll outline methods and designs that work for 100% of life.

Transformational Culture In The Digital Age

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The way you tell your story in person and online can make all the difference. Unpacking design's role in world-building and navigating experiences with the designer as a shaman.

Design and the Performing Arts

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How can design be harnessed as cultural producers? How do you grow audiences through communication design? How can design be used to secure funding?

Design + Dissent: Politically Driven Graphics with Milton Glaser

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Let's examine graphic work focusing on social and political concerns from around the globe and its impact on democratic societies.

Dimensional Shift: Letterforms

Glow-in-the-dark geometric light art with circles, triangles, and lines in blue, purple, and white hues.

This workshop focuses on the different aspects of type design and symbolic communication. Designers create their own unique alphabets based on a series of exercises.

Mainstream Money for Underground Artists with Android Jones

Promotional graphic for an online video class titled 'Money for Underground Artists,' featuring speakers Android Jones and Michael Robinson. The class is scheduled for June 25 at 9 PM EST/6 PM PST. The graphic has intricate, colorful artwork of a woman's face with abstract patterns and a geometric illustration of a chandelier inside a circle.

Can you make money off art? What roles do artists need to be fulfilled to be self-sufficient? How do you run your practice as a business?

Art, Evolution + Initiation: Rites for the Age of Transition

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Through unpacking designs’ role in our rites of passage, we'll create a template for moving forward. What rituals are most needed? What rituals need to be discarded? 

Buckminster Superstar

Celebrating the Christmas season with a modern graphic design featuring a black background, with the words 'Bucking Star Superster' written vertically on the left in gold text, and a digital heart and star graphic on the right, including a star-shaped wreath surrounding a spherical object.

Taking a whole-systems approach to create pop cultural experiences and brands. Explore connections within integrated, complex worlds through graphic design.

The Design Science Decade: Design for Impact

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Take a whole-systems perspective to explore connections within an integrated, complex world through graphic design. We'll outline a plan to fuse communication and product design that works for 100% of life.