Grammy Award winning Creative Director, Graphic Designer. Owner of LADdesign: clients in music, culture, and author of Supersonic, a design history of Concorde.
Joined August 2010
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11 Aug 2022
Amanda Petrusich has enriched the world through her writings on enjoying life. This is a moment where reflecting that generosity would be very helpful. The Nico (and Bret) Stetka Education Fund
gofund.me/f5877cf0
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
19 Apr 2022
.@Wilco detail 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' 20th anniversary editions, coming on @NonesuchRecords this September. Watch the band perform "Reservations" in St. Louis circa 2002: bit.ly/3xC3Q9U
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
11 Oct 2021
Last weekend, in partnership with #SpaceHero, #Humbitec hosted a children's event featuring technology workshops for learning programming and logic, astronaut suits and robotics 🧑🏽‍🚀
We love supporting future generations of space explorers.
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
24 Sep 2021
Songwrights Apothecary Lab the album is oooouuut TO👏🏾DAY👏🏾
(the S.A.L. is of course a onnnn growing river...mmmmbut here are the first 12 dips of/into it...)
hear it
see it
touch it
sing with/to it
burn above it
wear it
measure time by it
and more...
at
songwrightsapothecarylab.com
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24 Sep 2021
I'm always proud of my cousin Michael Azerrad. Michael was there at its pure core, and has always captured it with unwavering authenticity. Here he does it again and goes deeper.
newyorker.com/culture/person…
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27 Aug 2021
"understanding each other, our cultures, stories, histories, perhaps using media not even invented." is what our initiative: Designing The Future of Music is about. A look at the program & outcomes with @CACollegeofArts @RCA @imperialcollege London
cca.edu/newsroom/design-is-l…
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26 Aug 2021
Our fourth and deepest creative collaboration with the brilliantly incredible @EspeSpalding - a few key blocks to this wondrous project out today songwrightsapothecarylab.com
26 Aug 2021
oooooooh! Formwela 10 out today! And, also today: pre-order Songwrights Apothecary Lab (the album) ... the S.A.L. is (obviously) an onnnnnngoing adventure and journey, but on September 24th, I'm releasing an album of alllll the formwelas (songs) created thus far.
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
4 Jun 2021
👀 thread / edefyn ⬇️
1 Jun 2021
Did you hear the news? Gruff Rhys', a musician featured in our virtual exhibition The Future Happened, released a new album, Seeking New Gods, that hit the UK's Official Albums Chart Top 10 — beating Sir Elton John's Diamonds by 32 copies!
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
From time immemorial, humans have used music to share stories and to make a difference in the world.
This Thursday, join us for an exchange with visionaries Nep Sidhu, @RichelleGribble, and @LADdesign about the power of employing creativity to radically reimagine our futures.
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21 May 2021
How are artists, designers, technologists, healers, and activists redefining our relationship with music and opening our eyes to alternate narratives that have the power to transform our ways of being in the world? Join us eventbrite.com/e/designing-t…
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26 Apr 2021
Thank you to @FastCompany for sharing our new exhibit with Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) @modatl this article on a more inclusive industry by putting creators at the center of the value system chain and the #VerzuzEffect @odaislive
fastcompany.com/90628943/how…
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
11 Apr 2021
"The #exhibition opens our eyes to new and radical narratives that have the power to transform our ways of being in the world." - Lead curator and GRAMMY-winning creative director, Lawrence Azerrad (@LADdesign), on the power of the "The Future Happened" 🌎 grammy.com/grammys/news/futu…
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9 Feb 2021
"Designed to be ever-growing, this will be a resource that will continue to offer a unique perspective on the ever-evolving world of home creation.” Thank you @varyerer - and this post comes with the list of tools to use!
Mirror Sound varyer.com/article/mirror-so…
Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
19 Jan 2021
Please join us next Wednesday 1/27 for our next Design Observer Community Session. We welcome Eric Heiman
@VolumeSF, who will discuss how a mix of of graphic, architectural, experiential projects both inform and interrogate design practice. #Tickets dogroup.co/39F9Wss
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
9 Jan 2021
While LA officials tweeted, gave interviews, and sent out statements about the DC attacks, Berlinda Nibo was beaten by white supremacists blocks from City Hall in what is now being investigated as a hate crime.
None of them have issued statements about this attack.
9 Jan 2021
Black woman describes terrifying attack by Trump mob in L.A.: 'I’m thinking I’m dead' latimes.com/california/story…
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Early voting in Georgia ends tomorrow. Make a plan!
29 Dec 2020
#Georgia, are you ready? There’s only one week until the US Senate Runoff race in the great Peach State. Make a plan to vote today. Visit HeadCount.org/gainfo for more information.
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Lawrence Azerrad retweeted
31 Dec 2020
If we have CHP officers guarding vacant houses to keep out unhoused families in El Sereno, surely we can do more than tweet at a superspreader to protect unhoused families in Skid Row #protectskidrow
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11 Dec 2020
I did the album cover on the right back in 2002. Photo by Tina Tyrell. A cold treeline, good jacket, and a back to the camera just works well.
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24 Nov 2020
Thrilled to share the nomination with @JeffTweedy - a very special package. Also happy to share this honor with some friends, Lisa Glines and Michael Cina, both great colleagues. Thank you nominating committee #GRAMMYs
24 Nov 2020
Congratulations 63rd #GRAMMYs Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package nominees: grm.my/3l8hXdu
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9 Nov 2020
It's good to be Under The Radar when they call your book "a visually stunning and informationally illuminating document” Thank you for the Mirror Sound love @Under_Radar_Mag . Made with @spencertweedy @danieltopete2 @Prestel_UK and heart.
undertheradarmag.com/reviews…
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