This April, the spring series of lectures presented by the College of Architecture and the Arts at UIC brings, among many prominent architects, Ben van Berkel: Co-founder + Principal architect at UNStudio, Amsterdam.
Ben will be speaking on April 14, 2009 at Gallery 1100 A+A, 845 W Harrison St. at 6PM
Click here for the full schedule of events.
Jennifer Montgomery’s latest film, Deliver will be screening on Saturday April 11th at the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center. She will be doing a Q&A with Lauren Berlant after the screening.
Those Post kids just don’t stop….
Officially Unofficial: Inspired Art for Obama
The Post Family is curating, “Officially Unofficial”, an exhibition of prints, posters, photographs, and videos that emerged in 2008 as icons of the art movement in support of Barack Obama for President. The exhibition will include official campaign materials as well as independent work by artists and designers from Chicago and across the country.
The Post Family is curating the show with Nathon Mason, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs • Chicago artist Ray Noland of CRO • in collaboration with Hal Wert of the Kansas City Art Institute.
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Seed Magazine interviews some of the most extraordinary artists and thinkers of our time. The work is truly blowing my mind right now. Be sure to check it all out. Yugo’s application of the web…whoa.
from Seed re: Design&Architecture:
Design and architecture translate ideas into objects we can hold, touch, or occupy, or into visuals we can interpret and understand. At its best, design takes on our most inspiring and troubling questions and forces us to confront implications we might otherwise not have imagined. Increasingly, science and technology are driving this dialogue.
The Revolutionary Minds featured here are at the vanguard of this new movement, with their work firmly rooted in science. The drawings, structures, renderings, and sculptures of these designers and architects expand and clarify our knowledge of the world around us, demonstrating that design is an integral step in the scientific method.
Joris Maltha + Daniel Gross
Ben Fry
Skylar Tibbits
Neri Oxman
Yugo Nakamura
Anthony Dunne
Benjamin Aranda + Chris Lasch
Plural is working with Shannon Benine on many projects. This spring we will be finishing up her stationary set, new website, and hopefully a few more books. We just finished a limited edition run of artist books. We decided to keep it simple. Our thoughts were on photography, grayscales, layers (and revealing them), and creating a delicate experience – a selected view into Shannon’s carefully-composed and detailed work. 32-pages: designed, printed, trimmed, and bound all by hand. We’re pretty pleased with the outcome so far…
Why don’t you share it with all of us? Lovely Package is a website where you can submit, discuss, and discover the best in contemporary package design.
Many great things happening this weekend in Chicago, here’s what I’m trying to attend:
Cody Hudson at Andrew Rafacz Gallery –
March 27, 5-8pm (check out the pre-show interview at Post Family)
Margin Detail at the Post Family,
March 28, 6-10pm
Show n’ Tell show at the Whistler,
March 29, 7-10pm / follow by Drag City DJ Night
STA presents: An evening with Jay Ryan at Parthenon Restaurant
April 1, 6:30pm
See you there…
(oh, an don’t forget Earth Hour on Saturday (during the Post show), and Buckminster Fuller is still at the MCA)
Where are they? Oh, they’re there, standing next to… Spike Jonze?!… and Dave Eggers?! Awesome. Poster looks good, and I trust these guys.
Now to just sit here and wait til it comes out… doo doo doo da da… doo doo doo…
James Gandolfini?!??? whaa?
The 2009 Twitter TakeOver is making blogs, like this one, hard to come back to, well, kind of. Read what all your favorite designers have to say all day long… Tweeeeet was created by the talented crews: cypher13 and quickleft. Definitely check their work out, I dig it, though I’m not so sure about those sunglasses…
