The New York chapter of the Graphic Artists Guild is presents Sustainability & Green Design for Creatives
The event will feature a panel with representatives from The Vox Collective, the Lowe-Martin Group, Mohawk Paper, and Pratt’s Director of Sustainability.
Thursday, October 16th
7-9PM
Pratt Institute Manhattan Campus
144 West 14th Street, Room 203
more info
Luke Wolagiewicz sent some lovely postcards from across the pond recently. Cancelled postage from Europe always looks good.
See Luke’s powerful photojournalism at Wolagiewicz.com
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If you’re in New York City this evening, please do come spend some good time on the rooftop of The Delancy where I’ll be joining some other wonderful contributors to this year’s Field-Tested Books in a reading event certain to delight.
Readings begin at 7pm EST.
In 2003, Chicago-based design firm Coudal Partners launched Field-Tested Books, a charming project that collects reviews of books which were influenced by the reading locale.
This year’s edition, the third in the series features 143 reviews from more than 90 contributors including yours truly. I’m super-jazzed to be in such good company.
As a rockin’ thanks, Coudal sent over a print from the limited edition celebrating the series, designed by John Solimine of Spike Press. She’s a beaut.
Fresh on the heels of the whole project’s launch, Coudal began offering the book reviews in, you guessed it, book form today. Pick up a copy for only $17. I look forward to getting my hands on one. You can pick up the lovely poster too.
Kemosabe: Loyalty, Friend House
Zachary Granger Moldof and Anna Kerlin are working on a journal. According to Zach, the first issue:
...is going to be unbound, and it will come in a plastic bag. It’s going to be ideas, drawings, design, writing, and objects from our friends.
The project gets exciting before the first issue is published. To support the publication costs, Zach and Anna are selling “subscriptions” to out of print issues of National Geographic dating back to the 1930’s.
Subscriptions are $40 for a year or $20 for a half-year. To subscribe, contact natgeoreissues (at) gmail.com.
I’ve heard good things about Transit Antenna, “an experiment in mobile life.” Recently the traveling creative collective stopped in our former stomping ground: Orlando, FL.
While there, they spent time with Wheat Wurtzburger. Their Florida experience is recounted here along with an incredibly sincere and endearing depiction of our dear friend Wheat.
Student surveys are always tricky. Ultimately, everyone wants to help a student project along, but very often they’re longer or more cumbersome than most market research surveys and rarely offer an incentive for participation. Just as often, they come and go, with little evidence or news of their effectiveness or the application of the survey results. Thankfully, that’s not always the case.
A couple of months ago I was asked to respond to a survey about social responsibility in design and design education. Today, I saw the results of that survey.
Creative For A Cause is the thesis project of Syracuse University senior Heidi Cies. “A Resource for Visual Communication Educators” she calls it. Having identified a lack of standards or common ground on which design educators are incorporating social responsibility into curricula, Heidi set out to build a collection of online and offline resources, case studies, role models (thanks for including Citizen Scholar!) and more, targeted and promoted directly to educators.
Beyond creating a well-edited, nicely-structured site that tactfully asks for additional resources in the clever add-it-like-a-comment arrangement of submission forms, Heidi’s site has the potential to act as a common cross-discipline and cross-institution source of information for educators.
With enough traffic or interest, perhaps Heidi will pursue growing of her site into a network that will allow educators to exchange and update this information more freely. Maybe other existing networks will look to embrace and integrate her research. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.
If you’re like me, you find great pleasure in seeing interesting objects and physical forms. Throughout my screen-laden days, I take great joy in experiencing the effects of beautifully (or peculiarly) defined shapes, materials and textures. It may be a tightly woven coaster made of reclaimed Chinese magazines or the beautiful curves and weight of highly designed tea pot that give some very concrete solace.
Sometimes the variety, rarity, expense or circumstances of great objects make them difficult to have close enough to be appreciated. Thankfully, a wonderfully robust resource just made its way to my inbox and I couldn’t be happier. The Curated Object is an extremely rich listing of object-centric exhibitions around the world, from archeological to artistic, functional to superfluous.
I’m looking forward to Silversmiths To The Nation.
Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July’s Learning To Love You More project, which features photographs from our beloved Wheat Wurtzburger, is now in book form.
To launch the book, a new exhibition opens Saturday, October 6th at The Journal Gallery (168 N 1st St, Brooklyn, NY) and runs through October 26th, before it’s packed up and shipped off for a 6-12 month European tour.
Opening party Saturday the 6th from 6PM-9PM. We hope to see you there.
Pangea Day is May 18, 2008.
But what is Pangea Day?
As the organizers make clear, never before in history have people around the world, in various social, economic, and political environments had access to the power of film-making to share their stories. These are stories of struggle, sacrifice, ambition and hope. Pangea Day will bring together the best of these films in a multi-city film & music event.