Graphic Designer Erik Carter (erikcarter.net ) and A+D Guest Curator Mark Owens (lifeofthemind.net ) will discuss Carter’s book cover designs for Verso Books’ Verso Futures series and what “abstraction” might mean for designers today. The discussion is conducted in conjunction with the exhibition “The Surface of Design” at the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery at Purchase College SUNY, on view Oct. 3-Nov. 11, 2016.