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2009 Quick Links:
06/05/09 - 07/12/09 House Industries | Letters & Ligatures
06/12/09 - Global Creative Economy Convergence | DEADLINE: Call for Presentations
05/15/09 - Senior Show and Professional Reception | Philadelphia University
05/05/09 - 2009 Portfolio Presentations | Graphic & Interactive Design, Tyler School of Art
04/22/09 - Interact 7 | Tyler School of Art Interactive Show
05/11/09 - OBJECTIFIED with Gary Hustwit | Film screening and Q&A
MULTIPLE DATES - EXPOSED09 | Lecture Series
12/08/09 - Compostmodern 09 | Event
12/08/09 - Chukin Takagi - Japanese Calligraphy | Exhibition and Lecture/Demonstration
12/08/09 - Tyler School of Art's 19th Annual Packaging | Exhibition Reception
12/08/09 - Freedom on the Fence | A Digital Documentary Project
12/08/09 - Philadelphia Region's Third Annual | Design Slam
House Industries
Letters & Ligatures
OPENING RECEPTION:
FRIDAY JUNE 5, 6-9pm
EXHIBIT:
JUNE 5 - JULY 31, 2009
222 Vine Street,
Philadelphia
Open Mon - Fri, 9-6p
or by appointment
COST: FREE and open to the public
Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit
Call for Presentations
DEADLINE: Friday
June 12
On October 5-6, 2009, Innovation Philadelphia will host the second Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. We invite you to participate in the Summit, which promises to embrace the same values it champions: innovation, creativity, collaboration, shared learning, technology and open source thinking. Presentation proposals can be submitted within the Summit’s four tracks: Creative Economy 201, Creative Entrepreneurship, Creative 21st Century Workforce, and Creative Sustainability. Any individual who has demonstrated experience or expertise within one or more of the four tracks should consider submitting to the Global Creative Economy Convergence Summit’s Call for Presentations. The complete Call for Presentations document is available at www.GCECS2009.com
The cost to attend the Summit is only $225 and includes breakfast, lunch and dinner for both days of the Summit, as well as access to all Summit-related panels, workshops, presentations and tours. To register for the Summit, go to www.GCECS2009.com
COST: FREE to submit
Senior Show and Professional Reception
Philadelphia University School of Design and Media
WHEN: Friday
May 15, 5:00-7:00pm
WHERE: Philadelphia University; Bucky Harris Gymnasium in the Athletic and Recreation Center
DIRECTIONS: Philadelphia University
Campus Map
View work from the 2009 graduates of architecture, digital design, fashion design, graphic design communication, industrial design, interior design and textile design.
For more information on the Philadelphia University School of Design and Media, please view our website: Philadelphia University.
COST: This event is FREE and open to the public
Class of 2009 Portfolio Presentations
Graphic & Interactive Design, Tyler School of Art
WHEN: Tuesday
May 5, 4:00-6:30pm
WHERE: Tyler School of Art, Suite 240
DIRECTIONS: Tyler School of Art | 2001 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA
For more information about the Graphic and Interactive Design program at Tyler check out our website: Tyler School of Art
COST: This event is FREE and open to the public
Interact 7
The Graphic and Interactive Design Department at Tyler School of Art
WHEN: Wednesday
April 22, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
WHERE: Tyler School of Art
DIRECTIONS: Tyler School of Art | 2001 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA
Want to see what Tyler design students are doing in web design, motion graphics? Well then, stop by the new Tyler School of Art on Wednesday, April 22nd in Room B004 at 6.30pm to see their latest projects. You'll get to see some amazing work and get a glimpse of what the future designers of today have to offer. Event is co-sponsored by Aquent.
COST: This event is FREE and open to the public
OBJECTIFIED
Film screening and Q&A with Gary Hustwit
WHEN: Monday, May 11, 7pm and 9:30pm
WHERE: Bossone Auditorium, Drexel
DIRECTIONS: The Westphal College at Drexel University, Bossone Auditorium
Filmmaker Gary Hustwit, director of "Helvetica", is back with a new documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. Through verite footage and in-depth conversations, the film documents the creative processes of some of the world's most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. What can we learn about who we are, and who we want to be, from the objects with which we surround ourselves? The film features Jonathan Ive, Marc Newson, Karim Rashid, Hella Jongerius, and many more. Gary Hustwit will be in attendance to present the film and answer questions after each screening.
HOW MUCH: AIGA members: $15
AIGA Student members: $15
Non-members: $20
Non-member students: $20
TICKETS: click here to buy
EXPOSED09
A Spring 2009 Lecture Series on Graphic Design Presented by the Graphic Design Department of the University of the Arts; Co-sponsored by CRW Graphics
Lecture by Jorge Frascara
Presenting Information Visually
Lecture by Guillermina Noel
User-Centered Design: Is that Enough?
WHEN: Wednesday, February 25 | 6:00pm
WHERE: CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall
DIRECTIONS: CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall
Roundtable with Ken Hiebert, Tom Okerse and Slavko Milekic; Hans-Ulrich Allemann, moderator
From the Mountain Top: What Lies Behind us; What Lies Ahead
WHEN: Monday, March 2 | 6:00pm
WHERE: CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall
DIRECTIONS: CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall
Lecture by Richard Poulin
Are you Ready to Jump?
WHEN: Thursday, March 19 | 6:00pm
WHERE: Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall
DIRECTIONS: Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall
Lecture by Ryan Lauer '06 and Salvador Orara '05
Design as an Organism
WHEN: Monday, March 30 | 6:00pm
WHERE: CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall
DIRECTIONS: CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall
HOW MUCH: FREE and open to the public.
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Compostmodern 09
San Francisco
WHEN: February 21, 2009
WHERE: Herbst Theater, San Francisco CA
DIRECTIONS: Herbst Theater
The past year's acceleration curve on sustainable issues and awareness has been nothing short of meteoric. Now that candidates are touting "green-collar jobs" and alternative fuels as the means to lift us from the current economic doldrums, people are more interested in sustainability than ever before. Accordingly, Compostmodern is now an annual affair - endeavoring as always to provide designers and business people the inspiration and the tools necessary to build a more sustainable future.
Come join us in San Francisco on February 21, 2009 for a day of fresh design thinking and some hands-on dirty work. Confirmed speakers, event status and past presentations can all be found on the Compostmodern 09 website. Registration is available online.
Can't join us in San Francisco? Act locally. Sign up to watch the webcast, or download our Seedpacket to grow your own satellite event.
HOW MUCH:
AIGA members: $60
AIGA Student members: $50
Non-members: $80
Non-member students: $70
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Chukin Takagi
Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition and Lecture/Demonstration
WHEN: Feb 16 through March 20, 2009 | Lecture/Demonstration: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 6PM
WHERE: Stein Auditorium - Nesbitt Hall
33rd and Market Streets
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104
DIRECTIONS: Stein Auditorium
On the night of February 19, Ms. Takagi will demonstrate how she transforms the Japanese letterform into expressive gesture.
Chukin Takagi was born in 1945 in Karafuto, Russia, a former colony of Japan. She then grew up in Hirosaki, a northern city of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. At a very young age, she commenced her study of Shodo [A Way of Scripting; Sho means "writing or scripting with brush" and do means "the path, passage or the way"] in a private practice run by a local writing master. She continued her Shodo discipline seriously through high school and college with two different masters. Between 1965 and 1974, she made multiple exhibit entries and became independent, starting to teach her own pupils. In the late 70s, she won the prestigious award of the Aomori province for the third time. She holds her graduate degree in Shodo from the Japanese Shodo Education Association in Tokyo and has received guidance in additional brushwork explorations from Sodo Asai in Kyoto. Ms. Takagi was one of the organizers of the first alumni show of the Association in 1988, which took place in Tokyo. Ms. Takagi was appointed as a director of the northern Shodo Institute in Hirosaki in 2006.
There will be an introduction and brief history of Japanese calligraphy by Janice Merendino, founder and director of The Branch Out Project.
Janice Merendino earned her BS in Art Education and BFA in Ceramics from Moore College of Art and Design. She was one of the founding members of The Clay Studio and taught there as a ceramics instructor until 1984. Currently, she teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs at Rosemont College. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, she designs workshops and teaches accessible programs geared toward groups from various mental and physical health communities. She is founder and director of The Branch Out Project, through which she conducts visual literacy workshops for major corporations, government agencies and numerous community and non-profit groups. Ms. Merendino has made six trips to Japan to pursue her studies of pottery and ink painting. Since 1980, she has exhibited her paintings on paper and ceramic work in several group and solo shows, including a one-woman exhibition in Tokyo.
The exhibition will be held in the Pearlstein Gallery right off the lobby entrance to Nesbitt Hall.
HOW MUCH: FREE and open to the public.
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19th Annual Packaging Exhibition Reception
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
WHEN: Saturday, January 31, 2009 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm
WHERE: Tyler Student Gallery
Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 North 13th Street
REGISTER: www.myowlspace.com/events
DIRECTIONS: Tyler School of Art
A reception follows the closing of the annual Packaging Exhibition,
which showcases projects by senior packaging students in the Tyler
School of Art Graphic and Interactive Design Program. The exhibition
runs from Jan. 20 to 31, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM, in the main lobby of
the new building. Come see our brand new building on the main campus!
The packaging show marks the very first exhibition in our new
facilities.
Questions? Contact the Tyler School of Art Graphic and Interactive
Design Program at 215-777-9145.
HOW MUCH: FREE and open to the public.
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Freedom on the Fence
A Digital Documentary Project
WHEN: Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 6:00 pm
WHERE: The Bossone Center
3141 Chestnut Street
DIRECTIONS: The Bossone Center
The Graphic Design Program in the Westphal College of Media Arts and Design, Drexel University will present a screening of the film Freedom on the Fence, a documentary about Polish poster artists produced by Andrea Marks, Professor of Design at Oregon State University. Ms. Marks will be present to introduce the film and take questions from the audience.
HOW MUCH: FREE and open to the public.
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Philadelphia Region's Third Annual Design Slam
Contestants will participate in a fast-paced race to create the best design solution to a "made-up" real-world problem. Awards given to the victors!
WHEN: Friday, January 16, 2009 | 6:30pm to 8:30pm (meet and greet from 6 - 6:30)
WHERE: Messagefirst, 230 N 2nd Street, Suite 2C
DIRECTIONS: Messagefirst
What's a "Design Slam"?
During the meeting, participants will be teamed and introduced to a full-fledged hypothetical project, including appropriate client-side deliverables. They'll then have an opportunity to interview key players on the client's team. The session will conclude with proposal presentations from each of the groups to the "clients" and the assembled audience.
Then the "clients" team will choose a winner. Members of the winning team will receive a plethora of praise from your peers and an award.
If you do not want to participate because you won't be able to get to the meeting ontime or a have severe case of social phobia, fear not! We would like to have an audience during this session to play the role of users, and help choose the winning team.
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