John Maeda gave a lecture on 16 May 2008 in the MIT Media Lab’s Bartos Theater before he left MIT to become president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). His former students were invited to design a poster to announce the event. My poster (above) encodes the data about the time and place of the lecture into visual form. The forms are the sound waves created as I read the lecture information into a microphone. I designed the poster with typographic information superimposed on the waves, but I removed the type at the last moment. From top to bottom: 16 May 2008, 3:30 – 4:30pm, John Maeda, MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building, E15, 20 Ames St, Cambridge.