UPCOMING EVENTS
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SATURDAY 17 MAY 2008 9:00AM – 7:00PM
Smart/Models: Business Principles for Design Principals
Five design firms. Five business models. Five departures from the expected. This one-day conference examines the overlap between smart design and smart business. Crossing the business divide requires designers to grow from steadfast practitioner to streetwise business person. And SMART/MODELS looks at design-minded businesses through the eyes of five firms: Jason Fried from 37signals, Matt Owens from Athletics, Joe Duffy and Eric Block from Duffy & Partners, Sylvia Harris from Sylvia Harris LLC, and Douglas Riccardi from Memo Productions. Join us Saturday, May 17 for a day moderated by Emily Ruth Cohen, a business consultant to creative firms world-wide.
WEDNESDAY 21 MAY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Molly Wright Steenson
Molly Wright Steenson is a design researcher and architecturalhistorian who studies interactivity and responsiveness inarchitecture. She is pursuing a PhD in architecture at PrincetonUniversity. She also conducts research and develops design strategyfor mobile, web, and urban projects.
FRIDAY 23 MAY 2008 6:30 – 9:00PM
IN/VISIBLE: Graphic Data Revealed
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The visual ethics required in information graphics increase the designer’s burden from faithful executor to editorial arbiter. How do design choices affect the integrity of the data being portrayed? Can information graphics and the designers who create them ever claim pure objectivity? John Maeda, newly appointed president of RISD and world-renowned designer and innovator, will engineer a conversation with three designers who specialize in infographics.
WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Pictured/Prose: Assorted Comic Narratives
Bamboozled beauties, hunky heroes and eccentric side-kicks populate thequirky universe of graphic novels and comic books. Dazzling drawingselevate plot points while witty repartee illuminates characters. Come join this triofor a talk on crafting prose and drawn protagonists.
WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Linked by Air
Linked by Air is the graphic design partnership of Tamara Maletic and Dan Michaelson. They often focus on the production of public space, both physical and online. Design and technology are intertwined inventive processes in their work.
TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Spring Small Talks Extended: Benita Raphan
GREAT GENIUS/PROFOUND STUPIDITY
Richard Wilde says, “If Carin Goldberg, Paula Scher, and Ken Burns were to produce an offspring, she would probably be Benita Raphan,” director, designer, and creator of documentary films ‘They Were The Future’, a series about visionary scientists such as R. Buckminster Fuller and Edwin Land.
WEDNESDAY 16 JULY 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Andrew Sloat
Andrew Sloat / Drainage Ditch (www.andrewsloat.com) is a graphic designer and videomaker. His video work began as part of his graduate thesis at Yale, exploring the relationship between the two-dimensionality of print design and the three-dimensionality of theater. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and is a certified NYC street-tree steward.
WEDNESDAY 20 AUGUST 2008 6:30 – 8:00PM
Design Remixed: Big Spaceship
An innovation-led digital creative agency, Big Spaceship partners withbrands to create deeply engaging experiences, products andrelationships.
Expose yourself to various passions, disciplines, ways of working and ways of seeing.
