Harry Allen will present a lecture titled “This is Not Utopia: The Work of Harry Allen” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture lecture series.

Allen is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary designer. Born in New Jersey in 1964, Allen received an undergraduate degree from Alfred University before moving to New York City and earning a Masters in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute.

In 1993, he established his design consultancy, Harry Allen Design, and the same year designed and produced a line of furniture called Living Systems, which he showed at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Since he has designed furniture, products and interiors for an illustrious roster of international clients.

Allen’s first major interior design commission was Moss, the design store in New York. His Bank in The Form of a Pig for Areaware has become a design icon. Recently completed projects include Life on a String: 35 Centuries of the Glass Bead, an exhibition at the Corning Museum of Glass, and two table lamps, Tybault and Esme, for Swarovski Lighting.

His industrial design work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His awards include the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Modernism/Young Designer Award and two Industrial Design Society of America IDEA Awards. He was featured four times in ID Magazine’s Annual Design Review. His packaging for Marc Jacobs’ men’s fragrance, BANG, won both a FIFI Award and a Pentaward. His work is featured regularly in international media.

Allen’s long-standing interests in art, new materials, and a systematic design approach have lead to some of the most intelligent products and interiors in the world today. He will show work from his diverse career as an interior and industrial designer.

The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.

For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or architecture.uark.edu.