Marshall’s Visual Arts Center will host Ilić Thursday, Oct. 13, at an artist reception at 4:30 p.m. and a talk titled “From Fist to Face: The Art and Design of Mirko Ilić” at 7:30 p.m. Both events will take place in the Carroll Gallery.
An award-winning artist, Ilić has work at the Smithsonian Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is co-author of several books, including “The Anatomy of Design,” and he has been known to contribute graphic design for buildings, such as New York’s Le Cirque restaurant.
Ilić first visited Marshall in 1998, soon after he emigrated from Bosnia to the U.S. In that year, he was a participant in the then-Department of Art and Design’s Influences conference, “Design for a New Order.”
“During the 18 years since his first visit to Marshall, Ilić’s career has burgeoned and much has changed for the School of Art and Design,” said Mary Grassell, professor of graphic design. “We are honored that Ilić will again be part of the Marshall community for a few days– as a critic, guest speaker, solo exhibitor and workshop leader.”
Ilić’s work was first published in 1973, and his comics and illustrations have since been published in magazines. In 1991, he became the art director of Time Magazine International Edition and of the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times the following year. In 1995, Ilić established his namesake design firm, a graphic design and 3-D computer graphics and motion picture title studio, with clients such as National Geographic, Johnson & Johnson, Rolling Stone Magazine, MTV and Harvard Business Review. In 1998, he created the title sequence for the romantic comedy “You’ve Got Mail.”
Today, in addition to overseeing the Mirko Ilić Corporation, Ilić teaches master’s-level illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York and continues to organize and curate shows and lectures around the world.
Ilić will visit Marshall as a Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts. In 1992, Joan C. Edwards created the endowment to enable the then-College of Fine Arts to bring to the Huntington campus preeminent arts educators in an effort to enhance learning opportunities for students, staff, faculty and the community.
For more information about art and design at Marshall University or to see a full schedule of events for Fall 2016, visit www.marshall.edu/art.