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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
Our graduate studio is on the fifth floor. We share the floor with the SVA undergrad animation department. Unless you’re an undergrad animation student or a graduate design student, you wouldn’t normally find yourself on the 5th floor. But if you did, you wouldn’t find yourself talking or interacting with another student outside of your aforesaid category—which is a shame because as designers and animators, we’re genetically predisposed to be natural story tellers and collaborators.
With this in mind, two first-year students, Andy Sir and Lauren Wolff, set out to design an experience to bring together the students of the 5th floor. Working as a team for Stefan Sagmeister’s Can Design Touch Someone's Heart class, Sir and Wolff created Comic Bond: a large, colorful and inviting installation of empty comic bubbles with markers and candy to lure both animation and design students into interacting with the wall and thus with each other.
Sagmeister’s parameters for this assignment were simple: touch the hearts of a community of 200-600 people through design. The students are given 4 weeks and free realm to address any community.
Wolff describes the idea for Comic Bond as “something free-form without too many instructions. The concept was to allow for a collaborative story to unfold in the form of blank comic panels.”
The students must be hungry because after a week, a dominant theme of hamburgers prevailed as the boards erupted with wild stories of an escaping Ronald McDonald being chased by an evil Ham Burglar, among many others. Many animation and design students eagerly scribbled away at the panels, mingling, talking and interacting with each other in the process. Comic Bond definitely created a conversation piece for the faculty and students of both programs. Wolff and Sir received accolades across the board, getting praise from the faculty of the Animation department on the project’s success, and the students asking if Comic Bond could be a permanent fixture. MFA Design Co-Chair Steve Heller applauded the project, saying, "It was the first outreach I know of from our department to the animation group. I think it touched the people who look at MFA Design as a walled sanctuary...coming out from behind the wall was a very warming and touching gesture."
Including audience participation is a long-time tradition in performance-based art. The inspiration for Comic Bond came from the work of Rivane Neuenschwander’s Zé Carioca No. 4 (2004), beautiful minimalist comic panels of colors and balloons and Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák where the inclusion of viewers in the process of art making involves marking down the gallery walls with their height. When an artist invites their audience to be a part of the work, the traditional division between art and viewer disappears. And in the case of Comic Bond, the division between the two departments disappears as well.
The creators only wish that they had more time to set up a stop-motion video to record the unfolding of the project, but they both learned that creating an interactive public art piece takes patience, but most importantly, that in a stream of day-to-day where 99% of people are going with the current, it only takes that 1% to take a turn and make a difference.
With this in mind, two first-year students, Andy Sir and Lauren Wolff, set out to design an experience to bring together the students of the 5th floor. Working as a team for Stefan Sagmeister’s Can Design Touch Someone's Heart class, Sir and Wolff created Comic Bond: a large, colorful and inviting installation of empty comic bubbles with markers and candy to lure both animation and design students into interacting with the wall and thus with each other.
Sagmeister’s parameters for this assignment were simple: touch the hearts of a community of 200-600 people through design. The students are given 4 weeks and free realm to address any community.
Wolff describes the idea for Comic Bond as “something free-form without too many instructions. The concept was to allow for a collaborative story to unfold in the form of blank comic panels.”The students must be hungry because after a week, a dominant theme of hamburgers prevailed as the boards erupted with wild stories of an escaping Ronald McDonald being chased by an evil Ham Burglar, among many others. Many animation and design students eagerly scribbled away at the panels, mingling, talking and interacting with each other in the process. Comic Bond definitely created a conversation piece for the faculty and students of both programs. Wolff and Sir received accolades across the board, getting praise from the faculty of the Animation department on the project’s success, and the students asking if Comic Bond could be a permanent fixture. MFA Design Co-Chair Steve Heller applauded the project, saying, "It was the first outreach I know of from our department to the animation group. I think it touched the people who look at MFA Design as a walled sanctuary...coming out from behind the wall was a very warming and touching gesture." Comic Bond Day 1
Comic Bond Day 5
Including audience participation is a long-time tradition in performance-based art. The inspiration for Comic Bond came from the work of Rivane Neuenschwander’s Zé Carioca No. 4 (2004), beautiful minimalist comic panels of colors and balloons and Measuring the Universe (2007), by Slovakian artist Roman Ondák where the inclusion of viewers in the process of art making involves marking down the gallery walls with their height. When an artist invites their audience to be a part of the work, the traditional division between art and viewer disappears. And in the case of Comic Bond, the division between the two departments disappears as well.
Left: Rivane Neuenschwander; Center and Right: Roman Ondák
The creators only wish that they had more time to set up a stop-motion video to record the unfolding of the project, but they both learned that creating an interactive public art piece takes patience, but most importantly, that in a stream of day-to-day where 99% of people are going with the current, it only takes that 1% to take a turn and make a difference.
For our inaugural video podcast, we visited Deitch Projects to celebrate the release of Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister. The book and gallery show bring together many of Sagmeister's previous designed sentences while still leaving room for animatronic gloves, celebrity steam writing and large scale banana type. As always, the result is beautiful and full of wonder.
If you are interested in designing and submitting your own bit of wisdom, please visit www.thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com.
Stefan Sagmeister, Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far
Through February 23 2008
Deitch Projects
76 Grand Street
New York, NY 10013 map
p: 212.343.7300
