Bio
Rob Giampietro is a principal at Project Projects, a design studio in New York. He studied graphic design and literature at Yale University and worked as a designer at Winterhouse, The New York Times Magazine, and Pentagram. From 2003 to 2008, he was cofounder and principal of the award-winning design studio Giampietro+Smith. In 2008, he served as vice president for AIGA/NY, leading a design chapter of more than 3,000 members.
As a writer, Rob’s essays and design commentary have appeared in Dot Dot Dot, Design Observer, and BusinessWeek as well as in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and on NPR. As a designer, Rob has worked with cultural clients including the Guggenheim Museum, Gagosian Gallery, David Zwirner, and Knoll, along with nonprofit organizations such as the United Nations, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis & Malaria, and the NYC2012 Olympic Bid.
As a teacher, Rob has worked with undergraduates at Parsons The New School for Design since 2003, graduates at RISD since 2006, and graduates at SVA since 2010.
Lectures
Who Are Our Peers?, New Museum Generational (2009)
Posts by Post, University of Texas at Austin (2009)
On Design, Distribution, and Circulation, SVA D.Crit (2008)
SVA D.Crit Reading: Music, SVA D.Crit (2008)
AIGA/NY Design Remixed, Soho Apple Store (2007)
Fish-eye, Type Directors Club of New York (2005)
Francis Conversations: Topic Magazine, Yale University (2005)
Selected press
Reflections on Recent Work, IDEA Magazine (2009)
Rob Giampietro’s Posts by Post, Walker Art Center Design Blog (2008)
Giampietro+Smith, IDEA Magazine (2006)
A Scholarly Mein, Print Magazine New Visual Artists (2004)
Elsewhere
Email, Facebook, FFFFound, Flickr, and Twitter.
About the site
Lined & Unlined was launched on 28 November 2006, but there are essays and articles archived here dating from 2000 and even before that. At the launch, I described the site as “a portfolio of writing, resources, and ideas,” which is pretty accurate. But if you pop over to Delicious you can read some other great descriptions of the site there. My favorite comes from FI$H 2000 who describes L&UL as “Rob Giampietro’s remarkably comprehensive secret brain dump,” which is both more accurate and more entertaining than my original description.
Since the site launched, it has grown to 800+ posts on subjects ranging from mushrooms to mergers. If that sounds intimidating to you, fear not. There are plenty of places to start. (Maybe I could even offer you a postcard?)
Most popular posts
On Memphis, Pattern, and MacPaint
The Typographic Modern
Collected Words
Spaces and Storytelling in Kubrick’s “The Shining”
Graphic Design & Critical Thinking
You can find more popular posts by browsing the featured tag.
Editors
Frank Chimero, Stuart Bailey, Andrew Blauvelt, Liz Danzico, William Drenttel, Prem Krishnamurthy, Ellen Lupton, Graham Meyer, Adam Michaels, David Reinfurt, Jessie Scanlon, Kevin Smith, Rudy VanderLans
Developers
Andrew LeClair (v 3.5 & Library)
Michael Christian McCaddon (v 3.0)
Randy J. Hunt (v 2.0)
Renda Morton (v 1.0)
