Kicking off Houston Design Week 2015 are a pair of legends in the field – both in work and in life.

Formerly senior designer for Herb Lubalin, Louise Fili was art director of Pantheon Books from 1978 to 1989, where she designed close to 2,000 book jackets before opening her studio. Fili has taught and lectured on graphic design and typography and her work is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale. She’s taught at the School of Visual Arts for over twenty years, and has authored or co-authored over twenty books, many with husband Steven Heller on design and other topics.

For 33 years, Steven Heller was an art director at the New York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for almost 30 of those years with the New York Times Book Review. He’s known for the Daily Heller, a design news and insights blog for Print, and has produced over 100 books on design and pop culture as author, co-author, or editor—several of these with his wife, Louise Fili. Heller is also co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at the School of Visual Arts.

They'll both be speaking together in a rare joint appearance as the kickoff event for Houston Design Week 2015, at downtown Houston's beautiful Julia Ideson Building. Join us!