A month after Peter Megert died at age 85 in June 2022, Oscar Fernandez, an associate professor in the School of Design at the University of Cincinnati, scheduled a call with colleagues across the globe, determined to honor Megert’s lifelong work in service to the field of design.

This initial call birthed an informal collective that dubbed itself the Megert Legacy Group, and whose members were granted access to the full archives belonging to the late designer to create a career-spanning memorial exhibit that opened this week at Hopkins Hall Gallery at Ohio State University. (Megert served as a professor in OSU’s Department of Design for 15 years, retiring from the position in 1985.)

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