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Visit the open studio at Lager Raabe Skafte Landscape Architects to see what is currently on the boards and in the ground, meet our creative staff, and tour the office. LRSLA is working on several exciting streetscape, park, academic, and civic projects in and around Philadelphia. Plan to stop by for an evening of excellent visual stimulation, a chance to network with colleagues, and light refreshments.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: Architecture, landscape design
The Philadelphia Open Studio Tours is the largest tour of visual artist studios and creative workspaces in the region and the only event of its kind in the city. This free public festival offers a unique opportunity to engage with artists and designers at the source of the creative process: their studios. Featuring web, graphic, industrial, and furniture designers; printmakers; textile artists; video artists, and more. The Open Studio Tours is a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
Events held at Artist Studios East of Broad Street: Port Richmond, Kensington, Fishtown, Northern Liberties, Old City, Center City East, South Street, Queen Village, Bella Vista, and South Philly.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: featured, furniture design, graphic design, industrial design, multimedia, printmaking, textiles, web design
Trashed skateboards are the inspiration and the raw material for furniture, lighting, jewelry, and an array of other functional, re-manufactured products. The show will feature exciting new product premiers from Victor Perez of sk8lamps.com, Lynn Weiler of sevenplydesigns.com, and Jason Podlaski of deckstool.com.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: furniture design, jewelry, lighting design, product design, repurposing, skateboarding
You may consider “home” to be a cat, a garden, your husband, or your childhood town. Goldenberg Photography and Jibe Design Architecture join forces to explore the darker side of “home”. Goldenberg stages intricate vignettes in a model dream home designed by Jibe. Through a series of large format photographs, architecture and narrative combine to explore the sleeping mind’s dream of “home”. View the luscious photographs at a gallery exhibit at Jibe Design’s office.
Free and open to the public
Tags: Architecture, photography
The Philadelphia Open Studio Tours is the largest tour of visual artist studios and creative workspaces in the region and the only event of its kind in the city. This free public festival offers a unique opportunity to engage with artists and designers at the source of the creative process: their studios. Featuring web, graphic, industrial, and furniture designers; printmakers; textile artists; video artists, and more. The Open Studio Tours is a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists.
Events held at Artist Studios East of Broad Street: Port Richmond, Kensington, Fishtown, Northern Liberties, Old City, Center City East, South Street, Queen Village, Bella Vista, and South Philly.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: furniture design, graphic design, industrial design, multimedia, printmaking, textiles, web design
Trashed skateboards are the inspiration and the raw material for furniture, lighting, jewelry, and an array of other functional, re-manufactured products. The show will feature exciting new product premiers from Victor Perez of sk8lamps.com, Lynn Weiler of sevenplydesigns.com, and Jason Podlaski of deckstool.com.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: furniture design, jewelry, lighting design, product design, repurposing, skateboarding
Award-winning environmental graphic design firm Cloud Gehshan Associates undertakes projects in identity and placebranding, interpretive and interactive communication, and signage and wayfinding. Principals Virginia Gehshan and Jerome Cloud are the Society of Environmental Graphic Design’s 2010 Fellows. CGA invites you to tour their studio in Old City. Get acquainted with environmental graphic design, meet the designers and learn about current projects. Refreshments will be served.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: environmental graphic design, interactive design
A collaborative workspace comprised of Brown & Keener Urban Design, a transportation planning office of IBI Group, and sustainable housing developer Right-Sized-Homes is hosting an Open Studio. Join us for refreshments and an evening to network and view projects ranging in scale from downtown plans to a single home rehab. Brown & Keener is a multi-disciplinary urban design firm, specializing in helping public agencies and civic organizations develop planning, design, and implementation strategies.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: urban design
Trashed skateboards are the inspiration and the raw material for furniture, lighting, jewelry, and an array of other functional, re-manufactured products. The show will feature exciting new product premiers from Victor Perez of sk8lamps.com, Lynn Weiler of sevenplydesigns.com, and Jason Podlaski of deckstool.com.
Free and open to the public.
Tags: furniture design, jewelry, lighting design, product design, repurposing, skateboarding
Join us for open studio tours of three noted Manayunk design firms – Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA), Andropogon Associates, and Re:Vision Architecture. VSBA is internationally known for innovative architecture and planning. Andropogon, a pioneering ecological planning and design firm located in a readapted textile mill, will exhibit their transformative landscapes. Re:Vision, the firm behind many of the region’s green building firsts, will highlight the firm’s architecture and green facilities.
Free and open to the public
Tags: Architecture, landscape architecture
Join us for open studio tours of three noted Manayunk design firms – Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA), Andropogon Associates, and Re:Vision Architecture. VSBA is internationally known for innovative architecture and planning. Andropogon, a pioneering ecological planning and design firm located in a readapted textile mill, will exhibit their transformative landscapes. Re:Vision, the firm behind many of the region’s green building firsts, will highlight the firm’s architecture and green facilities.
Free and open to the public
Tags: Architecture, design, featured, sustainability
Join us for a tour of Ralph’s Cafe located in the Comcast Center with lead designer, Karen Daroff of Daroff Design. Please stop by our office and talk personally with Karen Daroff and other senior designers about our current projects and approach to design.
Free, RSVP required
Tags: design
Please join us in the Pindler & Pindler Showroom for a presentation by Rand Kehler on the history of crewel embroideries, as we introduce our latest crewel additions to the Signature Exclusive Newport Mansions Collection. Don’t forget to ask about our drawing when you stop in.
Free and open to the public
Tags: design, fabric design, interior design, textiles
Join SMP Architects for an open studio tour. See in-progress work, drawings and photographs of recently completed projects including: Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, the Sustainable Urban Science Center at Germantown Friends School, Tiadaghton Resource Center, Nature Inn at Bald Eagle State Park, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and a Residence Hall at PSU Harrisburg. SMP Architects is a Philadelphia firm with nationally recognized expertise in sustainable design.
Free and open to the public
Tags: Architecture, photography, urban design
Drop in and visit the showroom and studio of floral and event designers MODA botanica, winners of “Best In Show” at the 2009 and 2010 Philadelphia International Flower Show, and get a chance to view unique floral installations, chat with the designers and browse our extensive floral design library. Light refreshments will be available.
Free and open to the public
Tags: floral design, landscape design
Floss Barber Inc. would like to open their doors to DesignPhiladelphia and the public! You are invited to take a tour of our studio complex through the glass doors of creativity, on the third floor of the Academy House Building. You will get to see the cork- floored home base of Floss and her studio team’s design venue. With their unlimited access to luxurious textiles, unique carpet supplies, and a library full of all those design pieces that have set our projects apart. Come explore our space, ask questions, and perhaps get a sneak peak of some current projects like the SugarHouse Casino!
Free and open to the public.
Erdy McHenry Architecture is an award-winning firm located in the heart of Northern Liberties. Erdy McHenry invites you to tour our studio, view on-going work, and meet our staff over refreshments.
Free and open to the public
Tags: Architecture