Lecture: Hank Richardson  President, Portfolio Center

The inventor of Kindergarten, Friedrich Froebel noted, “Play is the purest, the most spiritual, product of man… and is at once the prefiguration and imitation of the total human life… of the inner, secret, natural life in man and in all things. It produces, therefore, joy, freedom, satisfaction, repose within and without, peace with the world. The springs of all good rest within it and go out from it.” Hank will be discussing “play”—why it’s important to us as designers, and as human beings, and how it enhances our creative lives.

Drinks and hors d'ouvres are available before the lecture.

About Hank Richardson

Hank Richardson is President of Portfolio Center in Atlanta, one of the most awarded schools for communication arts in America. A chronic insomniac and an incurable bibliophile, the kinetic Richardson was once called “The Perfect Storm” in Oz magazine. He spends the wee hours reading James Joyce, listening to Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and emailing James Victore. His infamous 5 AM classes—true rites of passage wherein all questions of ethos, logos, and pathos are answered—are considered the educational equivalent of the IronMan Triathalon. Feared and revered in equal parts, Richardson is among the country’s preeminent design educators and speakers, as well as an AIGA Fellow and a founding member of AIGA Atlanta.