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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
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger, co-founders of Antenna Design, speak about their belief in design’s power to activate people, both physically and intellectually, and to stimulate social interaction. For Antenna Design, “people-centered” design means recognizing people as complex beings with the potential to learn and grow, to be responsible, creative and reflective. http://dcrit.sva.edu/view/events/lecture-antenna-design/
When: December 15 2009, 6:00–8:00 pm
Where: MFA D-Crit Department, 136 West 21st Street, 2nd floor, NY, NY
Price: Free, RSVP to dcrit@sva.edu
2. AIGA/NY Holiday Party
Be merry and bright at the AIGA/NY Holiday Party. Admission includes a drink. http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10SP/
When: December 15 2009, 6:30–9:30 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $12 All attendees (includes a drink)
3. WWW.DESIGNBLOGGINGISCHANGINGEVERYTHING.COM
We're giving away FREE tickets! Just post a comment with your favorite design blog and we'll randomly select winners!
Four design blog luminaries, Khoi Vinh of subtraction.com, Josh Rubin CoolHunting.com, Tina Roth Eisenberg of swiss-miss.com, and our faculty Allan Chochinov of Core77.com, will discuss today's most prominent design trends, including example projects, critical discussion of how design blogs are changing design, the unintended consequences of self-publishing, and what blogging can achieve for its readers, writers, and the design community at large. Moderated by Alice Twemlow chair of the SVA MFA D-Crit and contributing editor at DesignObserver.com Questions for the discussion will be taken via Twitter leading up to and during the event. To pose a question, use the hashtag #freshd or address @freshdialogue.
http://www.aigany.org/events/details/10FD/
When: December 16 2009, 6:30–8:30 pm
Where: Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12 Street, New York, NY
Price: $20 members, $10 student members, $35 general public, $10 Non-member students
4. SPD Holiday Party
SPD is holding a holiday part at Retreat, a sleek design-y lounge, complete with drinks, food, great tunes, sweet prizes, free cocktails & Secret Santa fun! http://www.spd.org/2009/12/tis-the-reason.php
When: December 15 2009, 7:00–Midnight
Where: Retreat, 37 West 17th Street, NY, NY
Price: Free for members, $10 for non-members in advance, $15 at the door (Open bar 7–9pm)
5. Exhibition: December Editions, Limited Edition Prints
Printmaking has been the backbone of counterculture art and design movements for decades, and even in today’s digital age, the process is still very much alive amongst many young designers. December Editions aims to provide a platform for designers who have produced their work through a variety of limited edition printmaking processes. View works by ADC Young Guns Andrio Abero, Paul Pope, Chris Rubino and ADC Hall of Fame Laureate and winner of the ADC Design Sphere Award Paula Scher. http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/events/calendar/?id=139
When: Now through December 23, 2009
Where: ADC Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, NY, NY
Price: Free
6. Exhibition: Widows and Orphans
View a selection of Wilhelm Staehle's charming works, such as original silhouettes and fanciful letterforms 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 (212) 633-8943
The F5 Fest explored the intersection of art, design and entertainment. It was indeed the meeting place for the brightest minds of the world.Something that really caught my attention at this conference were unique musical instruments.
Presented by Asif Mian of motion design company, 1st Ave Machine (http://www.1stavemachine.com), these instruments were all controlled by the user through an intricate system of pulleys, switches and chains.
These are some of the fantastic musical masterpieces that I got to see:
Photos [1], [2] A keyboard system allows the user to play the keyboard, and in turn [2], the keyboard controls cans through pulleys to move as an equalizer visual to represent the music played.
Photo [3]
A high chair with a system of pipes and cables that controlled a percussion set
Photo [4]
A re-appropriated bike that acted as a pedal-driven drummer with gears at the pedals as well as the handlebars and drum sticks connected to the drive chain
Photo [5], [6]
A keyboard played by a pogo stick and [6] a close-up
Photo [7]
A clapping machine with Mickey Mouse hands and an eye-camera embedded in the Mickey Mouse ears (weird and creepy)
These musical instruments were a blend of art, music, engineering and design—the pulse of creativity. True insight and lasting inspiration come from unexpected places. I definitely found it at the F5 conference. Check out F5 Fest (http://www.f5fest.com) next year for another phenomenal gathering of creative minds of motion designers, filmmakers, digital artist, photographers, producers, interactive designers, graphic artists, agency executives, visual effects experts, musicians and industry visionaries—to name only a few, and maybe you’ll see the Mickey Mouse eye watching you.
