Lafayette's Baldridge lecture set for May 11 in NOLA

Jamie Baldridge, a professor of photography at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and author of the Lucie Award-winning "The Everywhere Chronicles," will be one of two speakers at the Design Within Reach of New Orleans store's "Parallels" speaker series on Wednesday, May 11.

The doors for the lecture will begin at 6 p.m., with the event officially set to run from 6:45 to 9 p.m. The Uptown New Orleans studio of the modern design company is located at 3138 Magazine Street.

Also set to speak at the event is Stanley Hainsworth, chairman and chief creative officer of the Seattle-based creative agency Tether Inc. He was formerly a creative executive at Starbucks, Nike, and Lego.

The company's "Parallels" series is aimed at drawing connections between designers of different disciplines. For more information, you may check out the Design Within Reach website's New Orleans store page.