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Jeremiah — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:52:19 +0000

Preparing for the inaugural Volume Gallery show: THE NEW / by Jonathan Nesci… full details Monday.

Zoë Ryan in Conversation with Alice Rawsthorn

Jeremiah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:00:54 +0000

The Architecture & Design Society presents
Zoë Ryan in Conversation with Alice Rawsthorn
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
6:30 p.m.
Fullerton Hall
The Art Institute of Chicago
Please use Michigan Avenue entrance.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

Free to AIC staff with valid I.D.
$5 students and SAIC Faculty/Staff with valid I.D.
$10 Architecture & Design Society and Auxiliary Board members
$15 general public.

from AIC: The Architecture & Design Society invites you to a dialogue between Zoë Ryan and Alice Rawsthorn that will focus on what design has to offer us now, and in the future.

Alice Rawsthorn writes critically about design for the International Herald Tribune, which is syndicated worldwide, and in her Object Lesson column for the New York Times Magazine. Following a degree in art and architectural history from Cambridge University, she was director of the Design Museum in London (2001-2006). An esteemed author, her publications include an acclaimed biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Rawsthorn has served on numerous juries including the Turner Prize for contemporary art and the British Council’s selection panel for the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Zoë Ryan is the Art Institute of Chicago’s Neville Bryan Curator of Design, the first to hold this position, established in 2006 with her appointment. In addition to building the museum’s first collection of contemporary design, housed in the Modern Wing, she has organized solo exhibitions of the work of Graphic Thought Facility and Konstantin Grcic and is currently engaged in co-curating an exhibition that looks at the interrelationship between architecture and design, to open in December 2010. Her extensive written work includes a forthcoming publication Building with Water: Concepts. Typology, Design, which will be published by Birkhäuser GmbH in 2010.

This lecture is made possible by generous support from the Auxiliary Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Albert Pick, Jr. Fund. The Architecture & Design Society gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of Park Hyatt Chicago

New Acquisitions from the Video Data Bank

Jeremiah — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:00:26 +0000

New Acquisitions from the VDB

Saturday / March 13 / 2010
@Roots n Culture
1034 N Milwaukee Ave
$5 suggested donation

The Video Data Bank have put together a promotional new acquisitions screening, which includes The Eternal Quarter Inch, along with work by Sterling Ruby, Dani Leventhal, Jim Finn, Susan Youssef, K8 Hardy, Wynne Greenwood and Nicolas Provost.

The program will show on Saturday, March 13 as part of the Roots & Culture screening series.

The Eternal Quarter Inch (excerpt) from Jesse McLean on Vimeo.

Studio Culture

Jeremiah — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:00:57 +0000

Nice new book with interviews and images of studios around the world.

from UnitEditions: Studio Culture provides a unique glimpse into the inner workings of 28 leading graphic design studios. In a series of penetrating interviews, the mechanics of building and maintaining a vibrant studio culture are laid bare with disarming frankness.

Studio Culture is a book for both seasoned professionals who have been running studios for years, and for idealistic designers contemplating starting up. It is the complete guide to creating, maintaining and growing a studio culture. Have a look inside.

Typography Kaliedoscopes

Jeremiah — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:34 +0000

It’s always a good idea to combine two awesome things into one more awesome thing, like typography, and kaleidoscopes. From Katerina Orlikova’s Portfolio on Behance.

Get It Together, Again

Jeremiah — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:00:38 +0000

Get it Together Again
@Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
72 E. Randolph Street
March 19 – April 6 / 2010

Opening Reception: March 19 / 5-7pm
Artist Talk: March 25 / 12:15pm
Collage Workshop: April 1, 12:15pm

“Get it Together Again,” is an exhibition of assemblage, collage, and collaborative work by local, national, and international artists. Organized by Chad Kouri of the Post Family and Ed Marszewski of Co-Prosperity Sphere, the exhibition includes over 25 works on paper, mixed media, and installations including a grocery store with hand drawn products made out of paper. Gallery visitors of all ages can sit down at a collage table and create their own work. Materials such as magazines, scissors and glue will be provided or bring your own.

The Show includes works by: Adrianne Goodrich, Alex Valentine , Anthony Zinonos, Ben Speckmann, Chris Roberson, Chris Schreck, Doug Shaeffe, Emily Clayton, Greg Lamarche, Hisham Akira Bharoocha, James Harry Ewert Jr, Joe Tallarico, Jordan Martins, Mario Wagner, Matt Nichols, Matthew Rich, Michael Pajon, Netherland, Peter Skvara, Richard Smith, Rod Hunting, Ron Ewert, Ryan Duggan, Sarah Jeziorski, Scott Massey, Stephen Eichhorn, and Tom Torluemke.

HOURS:
Monday to Thursday, 8am – 7pm
Friday, 8am to 6pm
Saturday, 9am -6pm
Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Admission to the gallery and exhibition events is free.

8-bit Cities

Jeremiah — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:51:59 +0000

8-bit NYC is the first in, hopefully, a larger series of 8-bit cities by Brett Camper (also check out his other project TreesNearYou). Fully drag/zoom-able, but no street view, yet. Help him build more 8-bit cities by donating to his Kickstarter.

AisleOne

Jeremiah — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:20 +0000

Design inspiration that you already know about. All my favorite things in one place.
A1 / AisleOne — An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.

10 principles by Dieter Rams

Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light

Jeremiah — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:00:54 +0000

Anthony McCall’s show, Drawing with Light, looks fantastic, if only it wasn’t on the other side of the world. Read full story here…

Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light
@AdamArtGallery / New Zealand
February 24 – April 10 /2010

[A solid light film] exists only in the present: the moment of projection. It refers to nothing beyond this real time. It contains no illusion. It is a primary experience, not secondary: i.e., the space is real, not referential; the time is real, not referential. No longer is one viewing position as good as any other…every viewing position presents a different aspect. The viewer therefore has a participatory role in apprehending the event: he or she can, indeed needs, to move around relative to the slowly emerging light form. – Anthony McCall, 1974

(link via ShannonBenine)

Huy Vu

Jeremiah — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:00:39 +0000

I don’t know why, but I’ve been really into ghostly images lately…
Huy Vu is a graphic designer who recently completed his MFA in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design.