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Springtime will soon be here and there are many events to attend this month. To start off March, we're giving away 10 free tickets to the AIGA/NY Jessie Auersalo talk. To get a ticket, just post a comment and share an event we can blog about. First come first serve.
1. Small Talk: Jessie Auersalo/BIG ACTIVE
In his first-ever U.S. presentation, Jesse Auersalo will discuss his design background, its relationship to his personal background and how they all affect what he is doing now. Jesse is an illustrator dividing his time between Brooklyn and Helsinki. His distinctive, character-driven work is marked by an aesthetic he describes as, "polished and clean, as well as sticky and dirty." His images are uniquely powerful, dark, intriguing and captivating.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10S5/
When: March 3, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Bumble and bumble, 3rd fl, 415 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 student members, $35 general public
2. Armory Arts Week
Art insiders spend their whole lives traveling from fair to fair—Venice, Basel, Miami Beach, London—but each March they return to New York for Armory Arts Week. "With Basel, in Miami, it's like the whole world moves [there] for one week, but for the rest of the year it's not really an art city," says Katelijne De Backer, longtime director of The Armory Show,"New York is the center of the art world." The Armory Show: New Art by Living Artists (Pier 94) and Modern: Art of the 20th Century (Pier 92). The twelfth edition marks another milestone for the fair with the introduction of Armory Focus, a new section that will feature an important art community every year and is premiering with Berlin. This year The Armory Show features 267 galleries from 31 countries.
http://www.armoryartsweek.com
When: March 4-7, 2010, 12:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Various locations, New York, NY
Price: $30 general public, $10 students
3. Working with Inhibitions to Creativity
Marilyn LaMonica, MPS, NCPsych, will discuss how psychoanalytic theory provides a unique explanation of impediments to creative work. Clinical cases of a filmmaker, a painter and a writer will be used to demonstrate how explorations of fantasized object relations lead to freer access to creative potential.
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/events/index.jsp?sid0=70&page_id=181&content_id=3265
When: March 5, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: MPS Art Therapy, 133/141 West 21 Street, room 101C, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP 212.592.2610 or arttherapy@sva.edu
4. The Tablet
Khoi Vinh, design director of NYTimes.com, and Matt Jacobs, designer for Six Apart, will discuss new modes of media presentation. They will address how the size of an object frames the user experience and how designers need to consider grid, typography and behavior differently. Books. Magazines. Televisions. We hear these words, and understand well what shape their content will take. But “tablet?” “Digital magazine?” How does the size of the objects frame the user experience? Influence their portability or accessibility? How will the experience with these devices compare with other more “fuller-figured” media? How do we need to consider grid, typography, and behavior differently? Hear from four perspectives how telling stories in new spaces influences new experiences.
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events/entry/lecture_the_tablet/
When: March 10, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $6 general public, register at http://svaixd-tablet.eventbrite.com
5. Collaboration: Pablo Medina/Parsons School of Design
Can Collaboration Help Haiti? On Thursday, January 28th, Pablo Medina gave a tough assignment to the 15 students in his Experimental Typography class at Parsons The New School for Design: Use the medium of typography to help Haiti. Students are now working in pairs to satisfy the assignment. Each pair has one week to come up with 15 ideas and one more week to execute the very best of those 15 ideas. On March 11th, Pablo and his students will jointly present each of the final solutions. At the end of the presentation, the audience will vote for the most successful project and that project will - in the following weeks - be executed to achieve the ultimate goal: to help Haiti. All event proceeds will be donated to Yéle Haiti.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10C3/
When: March 11, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY
Price: $13 members, $26 general public
6. Chris Hacker: Design Thinking & Sustainability
At the top of Chris Hacker’s agenda is the imaginative application of sustainable design thinking. He has overseen this process as Chief Design Officer at Johnson & Johnson for the last five years, and at Aveda™ for the previous five. Dubbed as “the man to bring sustainable design to corporate America”, by ID Magazine, Hacker and several members of his design and engineering team will explain their approach to sustainability in both design and business, illuminating his mission: to change the way designers think about sustainability. They will discuss how they have updated the design process at J&J, where over the last 5 years Chris has built a 120-person think tank, including an award-winning design team, where environmentally conscious decisions are a fundamental part of the process. Hacker is Chief Design Officer of the NY-based Global Strategic Design Office, Johnson & Johnson Group of Consumer Companies, leading all creative processes for brand identity, packaging design and brand imagery at J&J Consumer. Prior to J&J, Hacker lead Marketing and Design for Aveda™. His work was awarded the 2004 National Design Award for Corporate Achievement from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10DS/
When: March 12, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 students, $30 general public
7. Design Trust: Partnerships to Improve Public Space
Deborah Marton, executive director of the Design Trust for Public Space, will provide an overview of several of the organization’s projects, the process that went into shaping them and their influence on public space in New York City.
http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-with-deborah-marton/
When: March 16, 2010, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu
8. The Buzellis, A Marriage of Art Direction & Illustration
Soo Jin Buzelli is the creative director of PLANSPONSOR, PLANADVISER and ai5000 magazines; Tim O'Brien once said SooJin's magazines were like "Fantasy Island for illustrators." Chris Buzelli is an award-winning illustrator who works in advertising, publishing and editorial for clients pretty much everywhere. Together they make a powerful and creative team whose love and support for illustration is hard to match. Chris Buzelli will be signing limited-edition prints after the lecture.
http://www.spd.org/calendar.php
When: March 16, 2010, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Price: $10 members, $7 students, $15 general public RSVP 212.838.2560 or jessica@societyofillustrators.org
9. Type Salon: Cooking with Type
Douglas Riccardi will speak about his cookbook work for Mario Batali and give an survey of cookbook design and typography through the years: discovering trends, uncovering the roots of conventions, and perhaps even discovering new possibilities. After working in New York and Italy for 10 years, Ricardi founded Memo Productions in 1993. The studio’s work focuses on brand identity and development with many clients in the restaurant, food and hospitality industry. He has designed 8 best-selling cookbooks and for Mario Batali and 8 restaurants for celebrity chef Mario Batali.
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/1049
When: March 18, 2010, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY
Price: Free for members, $15 students, $20 general public RSVP 212.633.8643 or director@tdc.org
10. Stewart Smith
Greg Brunkalla has been directing commercial content, music videos, and other moving images in New York City since 2002. He has recently founded a new media company with industry friends called Legs, based out of Milk Studios in NYC. Legs' first project was a multifaceted black-and-white film campaign for Diesel.com. Greg was nominated for an Emmy for a series he directs for The New York Times Style Magazine. Other clients include: Nike, Levi's, Kia, and Diet Coke. Agencies he has worked with include: Mother, Taxi, Farfar, Duetsche, 180, and Ogilvy. He lives in Brooklyn. Greg is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.
http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/
When: March 22, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Apple Store SoHo, 103 Prince Street, New York, NY
Price: Free, no reservation required
11. E Pluribus Unum: Creating Design Policy in the U.S.A.
Casey Jones, Director of Design Excellence and the Arts for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), will discuss his role in overseeing the design and development of new and renovated federal buildings as well as the artwork commissioned for them. Previously, Jones led jones|kroloff with Reed Kroloff (Director of Cranbrook Academy), an architect selection advisory firm whose clients included the Whitney Museum of Art, Yale University, Friends of the High Line and Brad Pitt’s Global Green USA.
http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-with-casey-jones/
When: March 30, 2010, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public. RSVP 212.592.2228 or dcrit@sva.edu
We're giving away several free ticket to our readers: 1. Stefan Sagmeister
In the spirit of RMA's exhibition The Red Book of C.G. Jung, personalities from many different walks of life will be paired on stage with a psychoanalyst and invited to respond to and interpret a folio from Jung's Red Book as a starting point for a wide-ranging conversation. This event features Stefan Sagmeister, a New York-based graphic designer and typographer and Patricia Llosa, a Jungian analyst in training, who received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts and B.A. In Art History and Archaeology from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/519
When: January 6, 2010, 6:00–8:00 pm
Where: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY
Price: $22.50 members, $25 general public
2. The One That Got Away
Come and commiserate with four designers who will share with you the one that (sob) got away. This will be another fast-paced, action packed evening full of surprises, fun, and a little shared failure, from the likes of Carin Goldberg, Mike Essl, Jeffrey Zeldman and even a mystery guest.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10D3/
When: January 12, 2010, 6:30–9:00 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $13 members, $23 general public
3. Dot Dot Dot Lecture: The Storytellers
People are natural storytellers, and interaction design navigates the relationship between people and the objects they use every day. Do interfaces tell a story? Should we be designing with a narrative in mind? Join SVA MFA interaction Design to hear short lectures from Cindy Chastain, Creative Director of Experience Architecture at Rapp, David Womack, writer, editor and digital strategist, and Ian Curry, Senior Interaction Designer at Local Projects on their of the role of the story.
http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/events
When: January 13, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $6 general public
4. Collaboration: Dress Code & Friends
Music has been the core of dress code from the start. Founders, G. Dan Covert, an Ohio native, and Andre Andreev, from Bulgaria, will discuss how they collaborate with music. The duo began working together on short-run, screen-printed posters and cd packages. Now, they are venturing into directing music videos and short spots. Their list of collaborators includes sound designers, animators, cinematographers and always music. Their work has been recognized by numerous awards, appeared magazines, books and three museums. Covert and Andreev co-teach Design, Type and New Media classes at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and authored a book about transitioning from school to work in the field of graphic design, entitled Never Sleep.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10C1/
When: January 14, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY
Price: $13 members, $26 general public
5. Making Ideas Happen: Getting Organized & Using the Action Method
In the creative world, organization is a competitive advantage. Behance is hosting a small-group (10-12 people) session held at their office and lead by senior team members. This session will start with an overview of Behance’s action-oriented approach to project management (e.g. the Action Method) and then move into a discussion of best practices for prioritization, execution, and maintaining focus. Based on the research in Behance founder Scott Belsky’s forthcoming book, Making Ideas Happen, the session will focus on the first component of making ideas happen: Organization. A tour of the Behance office and a wine reception will follow.
http://the99percent.com/sessions
When: January 14, 2010, 7:00–9:00 pm
Where: Behance, 530 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY
Price: $99 general public
6. Mixtape Club
Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences, Chris Smith, Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa knew they had to work together as soon as they met. They funneled their collective love of music, computer science and semiotics into the world of animation, and Mixtape Club was born. With a fondness for character-based storytelling, Mixtape Club has created work for a wide variety of clients, including music videos for TV on the Radio, J Dilla, Yeasayer, My Morning Jacket, and most recently Passion Pit. They are part of the ADC Young Gun 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.
http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/events/calendar/
When: January 25, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Apple Store SoHo, 103 Prince Street, New York, NY
Price: Free, no reservation required
7. The Storyteller Exhibition: Art for Political and Social Events
This traveling exhibition focuses on artists who use the story form in contemporary art as a means to understand and convey political and social events. Featured artists include Omer Fast, Cao Fei, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Steve Mumford, and Michael Rakowitz.
http://parsons.edu/events/event_detail.aspx?eID=1171
When: January 29, 2010, 6:00 pm, Opening Reception (through April 9, 2010)
Where: St. Anna-Maria Kellen Gallery, 2 West 13th Street, New York, NY
Price: Free, no reservation required
8. Scott Stowell: Pay Attention
Designer Scott Stowell invites different participants to every project because everyone is connected and everything is an opportunity--if you're paying attention. Join AIGA/NY to hear Stowell's new and never-before-seen talk about his past 10 years of making "design for people." Stowell was the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design in 2008.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10PA/
When: January 28, 2010, 6:30–8:00 pm
Where: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 students, $30 general public
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9. LAVA at 100B
The Art Primo 100B Store is hosting graffiti legend, LAVA, who was featured in a recent book by Keith Bauch, entitled Early New York Subway Graffiti 1973-1975
http://1hundredb.blogspot.com/
When: January 16, 2010, 5:00–10:00 pm
Where: 100B Forsyth Street, between Broome and Grand, New York, NY
Price: Free
10. Thom Mayne: Performalism
Engineers Without Borders is a non-profit humanitarian organization, established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life, by providing sustainable engineering designs to those who need it and supporting community-driven development programs, while fostering responsible leadership. The event will highlight their work designing the Belen Clinic Project as well as previous work constructing a Library in Usalama, Kenya. What is the nature of the relationship between environmental performance and formal architecture? How can the boundaries between performance drive design and formalism be broken down? Join the American Institute of Architects, and speaker Thom Mayne will discuss his evolving integrated approach to design and environmental performance.
http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=1400
When: January 20, 2010, 5:30–8:00 pm
Where: 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012
Price: $15 students and members, $30 general public
11. Wilhelm Staehle’s Widows and Orphans
Wilhelm’s morbid yet charming works, such as original silhouettes and fanciful letterforms are displayed along with selected pieces from his infamous Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre, and the Dollar Dreadful Family Library.
http://tdc.org/tdc/archives/1510
When: Now through January 29, 2010
Where: Type Directors Club 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY
Price: Free, viewing by appointment only. Email director@tdc.org or call 1-212-633-8943 for an appointment.
12. Who Shot Rock & Roll
From its earliest days, rock and roll was captured in photographs that personalized, and frequently eroticized, the musicians, creating a visual identity for the genre. The photographers captured images that communicated the social and cultural transformations that rock has fostered since the1950s. The exhibition covers the photographic history of rare and revealing images taken behind the scenes from 1955 to the present.
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/rock_and_roll/
When: Now through January 31, 2010
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Price: Suggested Contributions: $10 adults; $6 students
13. Digital Life Design 2010 Conference
This three-day experience held in Munich, Germany, gathers 800 entrepreneurs, investors, philantropists, scientists, artists and creative minds from all over the world. With global diversity in attendees and an interdisciplinary perspective of digital, media, design, art, science, brands, consumers and society.
http://www.dld-conference.com/
When: January 24–26, 2010
Where: HVB FORUM - Kardinal-Faulhaber-Strasse, Munich
Price: Email for application. Limited number of free conference passes for students and start-ups available.
14. The Oldowan Series by Keith Sonnier
In this exhibition of sculptural neon works by Keith Sonnier, the artist employs cloth, neon light, screening, and visible electrical circuitry, in the Oldowan Series. The work combines sexually charged and psychologically loaded fabrics like gauze and satin with steel armatures, as well as enduring natural materials such as wood and stone. Oldowan is a term applied to the earliest manufactured stone tools in Africa. Also on view are works from Sonnier’s Chandelier Series. Sonnier designed a series of chandeliers to be used in the home, and later expanded the concept to produce larger works for public spaces.
http://www.maryboonegallery.com/exhibitions/2009-2010/Keith-Sonnier/index.html
When: January 7–February 6, 2010
Where: Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Price: Free and open to the public.
15. Sketch Nights at Bodies Exhibition
The Sketch Night program was created to give artists unfettered access to the Bodies galleries in order to explore the possibilities and practice their mastery of human anatomy drawing. A special guest artist will be on hand to answer questions and provide informal teaching sessions with attending sketchers. Sketch Night are held after regular operating hours (7:00 PM - 10:00 PM). Artists are allowed to set up easels and bring chairs to help facilitate their work. Dry media only. Space is limited. Artists must arrive at 7:00 PM sharp, latecomers cannot be accommodated.
http://www.bodiesny.com
Where: Bodies Exhibition 11 Fulton St, New York, NY
Price: $26 general public
