As part of AIGA's Design Week, the Kansas City Art Institute will host Steve Frykholm who will give a lecture entitled “39 and Counting: Steve Frykholm and Herman Miller” from noon to 1 p.m. on Feb. 5 in Epperson Auditorium. Attendees are encouraged to arrive at 11:45 a.m. as the lecture will start promptly at noon.
After teaching in Nigeria with the U.S. Peace Corps, Frykholm attended and graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Furniture icon Herman Miller Inc. then hired him to be its first internal graphic designer.
For 40 years he has been largely responsible for Herman Miller’s image and graphic identity, its posters, annual reports and other collateral literature.
Not only has Frykholm received Herman Miller’s highest recognition for an employee, The Carl F. Frost Award, but he has also received recognition from professional peers. His work has been published and exhibited, and he's received gold and silver medals and certificates of excellence from AIGA, N.Y. Art Directors Club, American Center for Design, Mead Annual Report Show, Communication Arts, Graphis, Creativity and Print. He is an AIGA Fellow and a Lifetime Achievement Silver Medalist from the Ad Club of West Michigan, and he was recognized in the 50th Anniversary Issue of Communication Arts as an American Design Icon.