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Talking to Myself

June 4, 2012

Like every one of us, designer/artist, Rick Valicenti/3st, talks to himself, but he records his own conversations on note cards and stashes them away in a thin drawer somewhere at home. Valicenti and Baozhen Li personified some of these communication for your listening pleasure.

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Talking to the lucky me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the disobedient me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the joy-boy me; Talking to the lacking me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the fake smile me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the ambiguous me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the wounded me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the wanting me; Talking to the greedy me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the modest me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to the neglected me. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Talking to that lil’voice o’mine. © Rick Valicenti/3st.

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Rick Valicenti

Rick Valicenti is a producer, director, and collaborator working with a wide network of designers and artists. Formerly the founder and design director of Thirst, a venerable Chicago design studio, Valicenti is a recipient of the American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA) Medal, 2006, and the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, 2011. Rick is also an invited member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). His complete works are recently archived at the Newberry Library, and the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. Large selections of Valicenti’s work are at the Ryerson Library at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Lubalin Center at Cooper Union, and the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography at Art Center in Pasadena, California.