Rick Valicenti
3st/Thirst
Website: 3st.com
Rick Valicenti is the founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design practice providing design and immersive environments for high profile clients in the architectural, performing arts and education communities. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA); resides in the permanent collections of the Yale and Columbia University libraries, the Denver Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago; and has been published in The New York Times.
The White House honored Rick in 2011 with the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design. In 2006 he received the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medal, the highest honor of the graphic design profession, for his sustained contribution to design excellence and the development of the profession. Rick is a former president of the STA (Society of Typographic Arts) and is a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since being invited to join in 1996. In 2004 he was recognized as a Fellow of the AIGA Chicago. He has served on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Architecture & Design Society under curator Zoe Ryan since 2011. Rick is currently leading a Moving Design initiative on fresh air in Beijing, China. Entitled “Deep Breath,” the three-year project involves 20 interdisciplinary design students. Their work was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile in Milano in 2014.
The White House honored Rick in 2011 with the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Communication Design. In 2006 he received the AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) Medal, the highest honor of the graphic design profession, for his sustained contribution to design excellence and the development of the profession. Rick is a former president of the STA (Society of Typographic Arts) and is a member of the AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) since being invited to join in 1996. In 2004 he was recognized as a Fellow of the AIGA Chicago. He has served on the Art Institute of Chicago’s Architecture & Design Society under curator Zoe Ryan since 2011. Rick is currently leading a Moving Design initiative on fresh air in Beijing, China. Entitled “Deep Breath,” the three-year project involves 20 interdisciplinary design students. Their work was exhibited at the Salone del Mobile in Milano in 2014.