For Please Make This Look Nice: The Graphic Design Process as an Act of Drawing a simulated studio will be installed in The Drawing Center's Lab gallery. Throughout the course of the show, a select group of professionals from throughout New York's vibrant graphic design community will be invited to work on unique and original design assignments and in a variety of formats and media including typography, logos, books, posters, motion, editorial, and more. All work will be printed, displayed, and projected for the exhibition audience to view, discuss, and engage with directly. This exhibition looks to expand the general and most basic understand of graphic design by turning attention away from finished design solutions the what of graphic design to consider the how and why, focusing on the myriad techniques and methodologies involved in the graphic design process, including writing, traditional drawing, photography, prototyping, assemblage, collage, and collecting. Rather than pointing to individual pieces in a designer's archive as specific works of process drawing, Please Make This Look Nice considers the whole graphic design process itself as an act of drawing. As Milton Glaser explains in an interview for the related publication: Drawing is a feedback mechanism to adjust your thinking. It's a way of seeing whether what you're thinking can become manifest.