Description: Seminar presentation by Mary Knackstedt, FIIDA, acclaimed speaker, prolific author, and sought after consultant on Interior Design business practices. This is part of the Designer Workshop Series co-sponsored by Marketplace Design Center and ASID/PA East.
Admission: Free, RSVP
For More Information: Reservations: 215.561.5000 or email gcipolla [at] marketplacedc.com
There is no fee for lectures, advance reservations required
Description: Screening of New York Times columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Thomas Friedman's film about the other inconvenient truth, the unprecedented scale of changes that need to be made in the world to combat global warming. Friedman's film takes him around the country through interviews with global companies such as Wal-Mart and Google to see how America is embracing the green revolution.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.965.4027
contact: Lorie Mertes
Description: Display and information on how bamboo is made into fiber and then designed into clothes, sheets, etc.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.592.7898
Description: The design studios of Moto DesignShop (architecture and design) and PixelCraft Inc (visualization and web), invite you to visit our Old City Office and view our work over cocktails.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.592.9300
Description: Imby = in my back yard… a curated exhibition and sale of design and craft from the Delaware Valley. The exhibition will be on display October 16-22.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.922.2104
Description: The studio of Dolores Browne, Architect displays custom furniture designed by Dolores Browne and is surrounded by famous artist chairs with a 10’ steel marionette. Shrimp, cheese, wine, and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.665.8727
Description: A modern installation of ancient Chinese objects, natural pattern of the Dali Marble in black and white with brush stroke, cloud movement, mist and rivers… and spaciousness. Join us for the opening event for this exhibition, which runs Oct 16 - Nov 30, 2008. Refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.922.2229
Description: Paine's Park is the marquee project of Franklin's Paine Skatepark Fund and Philadelphia's next great landmark. A multi-use skatepark on a prominent 2.5 acre site neighboring the historic Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Schuylkill River trail, Paine's Park will be a new hub for the community and a vibrant public space.
This project includes the work and input from urban designers, landscape architects, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, local art scene participants and the community itself. On this panel, Anthony Bracali, of Friday Architects, and other key contributors to the project will discuss designing for communities. What role does urban planning and design play in the development of our communities? In an increasingly technologically driven world, how will new media and design impact our understanding of community.
Moderator: Brendan Gallagher, Digitas Health
Panelists: Anthony Bracali, Friday Architects
Jenny Jaskey, Gallery Owner
Nicholas Orso, Engineer, Skateboarder
Neil Kleinman, Dean of the College of Media and Communication at University of the Arts
Refreshments will be served.
FREE and open to the public – tell your friends!
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.399.3357
Description: Studio tour with urban design project summaries, networking opportunities, and refreshments. Space is shared with Next American City, a non-profit Urban Affairs magazine.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.751.1133
Description: Please join us for a relaxing evening in our Old City loft studio as we exhibit our design work including the newest addition to our Nation’s capitol, the Pentagon Memorial. Refreshments aplenty!
Admission: Free
For More Information: Julie Beckman, jb [at] kbas-studio.com
215.923.3816
Description: New To You is a lecture series focusing on local and regional professionals who inspire design and bring a sense of pride to the area design community. Stick and Move is a Philadelphia-based Brand Agency and will be speaking as part of the New To You 2008 Lecture Series.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.philadelphia.aiga.org
Description: Design Within Reach and Fork Restaurant host an evening with Philadelphia product designer, Josh Owen, to premier his new SOS stool by to the U.S. market. Josh Owen will discuss his design process and the making of the SOS stool. Join us to see this great new product. Cocktails and refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.735.3195
Kristen Mattioni, DWR kmattioni [at] dwr.com
Description: A vacant lot becomes a prefab neighborhood for two weeks with full-scale modern, sustainable, affordable homes designed by international architects. Curated by Minima gallery, the outdoor exhibition also features urban farming, environmentally-friendly furniture, lighting, transportation, public art and other high-design, low-waste consumer products. Visit www.acleanbreak.org for up-to-date event info. Open Oct 17-30, 11am-7pm
Admission: Free
For More Information: Eugenie Perret, eperret [at] minima.us and Elizabeth Oliver, eoliver [at] minima.us
Minima Gallery www.minima.us 215.922.2002
Sponsored in part by Minima, The University of the Arts, Gyro, and The William Penn Foundation
Description: Design Within Reach and Fork Restaurant host an evening with Philadelphia product designer, Josh Owen, to premier his new SOS stool by to the U.S. market. Josh Owen will discuss his design process and the making of the SOS stool. Join us to see this great new product. Cocktails and refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: josh [at] joshowen.com
Description: Philadelphia artists and designers claim the urban parking spot—an idle space between the bustling streets and sidewalks of the city. Join us on Walnut Street for a series of outdoor interventions that explore the potential dynamics of this momentary urban space. [spot] is a free and public exhibition, as part of the Center City District's (CCD) Gallery Night. This event is sponsored by CCD with additional funding from PhillyFunGuide.com and support of the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info [at] qb3design.com
Description: Champagne breakfast and insider's tour of USArtists: American Fine Art Show. 9:00am Continental Champagne Breakfast, 10:00am Insiders Tour.
USArtists is the premier American art event, bringing fine art dealers from across the nation to Philadelphia to exhibit and sell an extraordinarily rich and diverse assemblage of 18th- through 21st- American art. Designers, architects, and their clients will enjoy an in-depth tour and sneak peek before the show opens to the general public. Tickets include multiple-entry to the show from Friday, October 17 to Sunday, October 19.
Admission: $25 for designers and clients
For More Information: www.usartists.org
Description: A lunchtime recap of the Infill Philadelphia: Food Access design challenge, highlighting three designs for neighborhood food retail outlets. Learn about the design, financing, and public health challenges in bringing fresh, healthy food within reach of low-income, urban neighborhoods – and how innovative design can be part of the solution. Brown bag event.
Admission: Free, RSVP
For More Information: 215.587.9290
RSVP to Linda Dottor, linda [at] cdesignc.org
Description: Philadelphia University's Master of Science in Sustainable Design program invites you to an Open House event. Come see an exhibition of current student work as well as examples and displays of current research at the Engineering and Design Institute. A discussion on trends in sustainable design and construction will be included. Refreshments will be available.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Rob Fleming, flemingr [at] philau.edu
215.951.2745x2928
www.philau.edu
Description: Exhibition of Hazel Design custom-made furniture, lighting, and interiors. Presentation, lecture, and book signing by Mira Nakashima. Food, wine, music.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.844.2375
Elizabeth Seamans, liz_indesign [at] yahoo.com
Description: Concurrent with AxD art gallery’s October artist reception, Always by Design architects and designers will be hosting an open studio. On view will be current projects at various states of design, including restaurants, libraries, and houses from Maine to Philadelphia. Also included will be a “hard-hat” mid-construction tour of sustainably-designed expansion of the award-winning studio, courtyard and gallery.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.627.6250
Edward Barnhart, architecture [at] a-x-d.com
Description: In a search for the beauty in America’s decaying landscape of disposable cars artist Deborah Sawyer finds Nature at work even in a pile of rusting grills and fenders. Mixed media paintings, drawings, and furniture meld the line between representational and “junk-art”. For Deborah rust is merely another medium with which to create. Exhibition runs through November 8.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.627-6250
Description: Point b Design, one of this areas most technically advanced design studios, welcomes you to visit our studio and view our latest work. We are a multi-disciplinary firm consisting of architects, artists, and crafts people with expertise in designing and making objects, spaces, and buildings. They are efficient, healthy, and meaningful, and range in scale from world class architectural projects to tabletop objects. Our firm's design process focuses on the integration of highly sophisticated digital technologies thoroughly tested within our own advanced fabrication shop. Point b Design concentrates on industrial design prototyping and architectural A&D – working with new materials to develop innovative applications.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.482.4000
Jonathan Asher, jonathan [at] pointbdesign.com
Description: Mendelowitz will present on embodied interaction, trans-disciplinary collaboration, and the AI Aesthetic ˜ a term he uses to describe creative works that expose the beauty inherent in the algorithmic creation of knowledge.
Assistant Professor of Computing and the Arts at Smith College, Eitan Mendelowitz has collaborated on interactive art installations exhibited internationally at SIGGRAPH, ArtFutura, and ArsElectronica. A researcher at UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP), Eitan is developing "Kolo" a ubiquitous computing framework for use in the performing and media arts. Eitan is completing his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA and achieved a MFA (2002) from the school‚s Department of Design | Media Arts. His artwork explores the cultural implications of the algorithmic creation of meaning while exposing the wonder inherent in the generation of knowledge.
Presented by The Multimedia Department at The University of the Arts
5:00pm Refreshments and Networking
6:00pm Lecture
Admission: Free, RSVP
For More Information: RSVP to multimedia [at] uarts.edu or 215.717.6322
Description: Join the designers, participants, and producers of [spot] to celebrate post-event.
Philadelphia artists and designers claim the urban parking spot—an idle space between the bustling streets and sidewalks of the city. Walnut Street played host to a series of outdoor interventions that explored the potential dynamics of this momentary urban space. [spot] is a free and public exhibition (Friday, October 17 9:00am - 3:00pm), as part of the Center City District's (CCD) Gallery Night. This event is sponsored by CCD with additional funding from PhillyFunGuide.com and support of the Philadelphia Parking Authority.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info [at] qb3design.com
Description: Join us for a conversation on the role of clients in creating great design. Clients and architects will be on hand for an informal look at the client architect relationship. Recently completed projects will be on display, refreshments will be served.
Admission: free
For More Information: 215.732.7311
Description: We cordially invite you to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Le Corbusier furniture collection designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand - Cassina l Maestri Collection.
OLC will present an installation of the Le Corbusier series models produced by Cassina.
The series will be represented by 15 models, including a special Limited Edition version of the LC3 armchair.
Light hors d'oeuvres and cocktails to be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Please RSVP to ekelly [at] olc152.com
215.923.6085
Description: Colorist and design consultant, Bill Baccini will discuss color and its theoretical and practical applications to residential interior design. He will also share inspirational ideas for transforming your home with color. Mr. Baccini is a faculty member at Philadelphia University and has many years of experience in the field of color trends and design while practicing in New York City.
Meet publisher Jennifer Strauss and art director Sierra Skidmore of Modernism Magazine – your premiere national magazine for Deco, Mid-Century, Pop and Post-Modern design. Ms. Skidmore is also owner of Skidmutro Creative and Layout, a Philadelphia based design firm.
Free promotional copies of Modernism will be available. Please join us.
Wine, light fare.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.925.1242
Description: This exhibit presents output from the product design course in the University of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design concentration from Spring, 2008. The course explored intersections of functionality and performance using an experimental platform to rediscover opportunities within the built environment to create domestic products. Professor Josh Owen, Assistant: Bryce Gibson
Admission: Free
For More Information: Josh Owen contact, info [at] joshowen.com
222 Gallery
Description: Since the inception of DesignPhiladelphia in 2005, Richard Nicholas Hair Studio has hosted some of the top attended events. Each year we combine our expertise for fashion forward hair design with a theme, style models accordingly, and present them as a design installation/exhibition in an art gallery. Past events have included BLUE, FRIZZ, and SHOOT – all visible on YouTube. Join us this year as we STARE. Come exercise your visual curiosity and enjoy the live installation of permanent body design (tattoos). Wine and cheese reception.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.richardnicholas.com
www.subocto.com
215.567.4790
Description: Eco, Ecco, Echo: a multimedia event questioning assumptions about consumption… Eco – the environment… Ecco – to see… Echo – to actively listen to what reverberates from what is seen. The pornographic forms of waste in modern industrial cultures are prophylactically remediated in an artwork designed around three elements: a mesmerizing animation, a consuming soundscape and the gift of portable art freely given to random passers-by. Collaborators include Mike Brenner, William Cromar, Yvonne Love and Gabrielle Russomagno.
Admission: Free
Description: Tour Philadelphia's first affordable LEED certified homes. The seven unit demonstration project is part of the LEED for Homes Pilot. Participants can tour a completed unit as well as two that will still be under construction. Project description and lecture also on site. The finished unit will be furnished with contemporary eco-friendly furniture designed by students from The University of the Arts' Industrial Design program.
Because this is an active construction site, guests must wear sturdy, closed-toe and closed-heel shoes.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.765.6000 x13
Description: This is the perfect introductory class for anyone wanting to create interactive art, or electronic projects using the popular Arduino (www.arduino.cc) open source physical computing platform. Participants will learn how to connect a variety of sensors (light, temperature, sound) to the Arduino and use them to control a motor, LEDs, and other devices. No previous electronics or programming experience is necessary. Participants will be provided a kit containing the Arduino board and various parts. Cost of kit included in event price.
Admission: Fee - visit website for detail
For More Information: 267.869.2485
contact [at] thehacktory.org
Description: Craftadelphia! is a sale featuring art, independently designed and produced items and tons of handmade goodness. Brought to you by the Philly Etsy Team and Mew Gallery, the event is held inside and outside. Additional Craftadelphia! dates are Sept 20, Oct 11, Nov 22, and Dec 6. Opening reception with refreshments.
Admission: Free to attend, $ for purchase
For More Information: www.phillyetsy.blogspot.com
www.mewgallery.org
Description: A look at urban bicycles from the 1930s to the present. Slide show and bicycle demo with Trophy Bikes owner Michael Mcgettigan. Bikes will be available for test rides after the talk. Refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.222.2020
Description: Collector and interior designer, Michael Shannon is the founder of Michael Shannon Designs, which handles everything from single room facelifts to complete interior renovations, always with an eye for art. Join Michael as he brings his design expertise to the Gallery Store where he will discuss taking art out of the gallery and bringing it into every room of your home.
This event is part of The Print Center's Multiple Conversations: An Ongoing Series on Print Collecting.
Admission: Free
For More Information: RSVP to Eli VandenBerg at: evandenberg [at] printcenter.org or 215.735.6090 x1
Description: Challenge VII twists functional design into dysFUNctional contemporary art. Included are objects and videos that were never intended to show together. The artists designed components that work with and against each other in content, form, surface and movement - evoking humor, curiosity and suspicion. The accompanying exhibition catalog was designed to be dysFUNctional yet provoke user amusement. The cover of carpet secrets the artists’ drawings and statements, providing glimmers of their innermost thoughts.
Albert LeCoff, Executive Director provides a walk-through gallery talk Saturday, October 18 at 2 pm.
Wood Turning Center is open extended hours during Design 2008
Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
This exhibition will run October 3 thru January 17, 2009
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.923.8000 or info [at] woodturningcenter.org
Description: Join us for presentations from two visiting architects: Geoff Warner, AIA of Alchemy Architects in St. Paul, MN; Dan Rockhill, JL Constant Distinguished Professor of Architecture and director of Studio 804 at the University of Kansas, and principal of Rockhill & Associates in Lawrence, KS. Each will discuss their unique modular programs and successes with this chosen method of construction, particularly as an affordable and environmentally-friendly solution to land vacancy and community revitalization.
Q&A will be led by PeiLin Chen, Diamond and Associates.
Part of "A Clean Break", an exhibition of modern, pre-fab architecture and high-design, low waste innovations for the urban environment.
Admission: Free, rsvp
For More Information: Please rsvp with Elizabeth Oliver, eoliver@minima.us or 215.922.2002
A Clean Break
Description: Foster's will premier a wall graphic installation created exclusively for DesignPhiladelphia 2008 by Ozwalled Wall Graphics of Cheyney, PA in Apt.399, our event space. We will also debut our new retail collection of wall graphics created exclusively for Foster's by Leanne Avellino-Blair and Henry Blair of Ozwalled Wall Graphics.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.925.0950
Description: In addition to architecture, A Clean Break touches upon additional components identified with a sustainable city: urban food production and bicycle culture. Share the visions and experiences, the up-hill battles and successes of these Philadelphians working to make a difference. Environmental concerns may be the primary force for these efforts, but the impact on community renewal is equally compelling.
Spencer Finch – Director of Sustainable Development Programs, Pennsylvania Environmental Council, Philadelphia
Alex Doty – Executive Director, Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
Mary Seton Corboy – Founder and President, Greensgrow Farm & Nursery, Philadelphia
Part of "A Clean Break", an exhibition of modern, pre-fab architecture and high-design, low waste innovations for the urban environment.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Please rsvp with Elizabeth Oliver, eoliver@minima.us or 215.922.2002
A Clean Break
Description: Wexler Gallery presents new work by innovative furniture artist Matthias Pliessnig. Pliessnig is a designer and builder questioning what is furniture and what is wood. An artist trying to stay "truer to the material, by utilizing the elastic possibilities of the material," Pliessnig combines boat-building techniques with furniture building techniques. Much of his work meditates on the thought that "for centuries we've been subverting wood to our will; lumber mills and furniture factories spit out rectilinear shapes that fit nicely onto trucks, but have little to do with the inherent properties of a tree."
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.923.7030
Description: This exhibit presents a portion of the output from sophomore industrial design studio at Philadelphia University from Spring of 2008. The course was a collaboration with Wilsonart Inc. where students were challenged to develop full-scale seating devices which explored and celebrated Wilsonart's laminate material. This exhibition reveals the process and many of the final products. Several selected projects from this course will not be on view at this exhibit but will be shown at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City in May of 2009. Professors Josh Owen and Jason Lempieri.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info [at] joshowen.com
222 Gallery
Description: 8static will gather some of the premier 8bit artists in the country for an unforgettable night of lo-fi sounds and mesmerizing pixel explosions. Five music performers, both local (Animalstyle, Cheap Dinosaurs) and from NYC (Glomag, Mark Denardo, Bit Shifter) will be joined by four visualists (noteNdo, Voltage Controlled, from NYC and Philly's own NO CARRIER and V BLANK). These artist will use their hacked game consoles and 8bit computers to fill the night with otherworldly sights and sounds. If this is your first 8bit show, it will be your chance to fall in love with the 8bit aesthetic as so many have done in recent years. If you are an 8bit fan, well, you know what you're in for! Check 8static.com for venue and other show information.
**6:00pm - Screening of "Reformat the Planet" (free);
7:30pm - 11:00pm - Performances ($8 at venue, $5 with flier or advance ticket)
Admission: $5 ahead, $8 at door**
For More Information: contact [at] thehacktory.org
Description: Back by popular demand! Philly {heart} Design is an extraordinary exhibition of cutting-edge work submitted by the best of the best – students, professionals, and others in the product, graphic and interactive fields. The exhibition, curated by Jaime Salm, Isaac Salm, and Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich, features a broad range of work in an immersive environment. The exhibition will be open October 16 – 22.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info [at] mioculture.com
215.925.9359
Description: Noted architects like John Notman, William Strickland, Frank Furness, John J. McArthur, C.C. Zantzinger, Horace Trumbauer, and Napoleon LeBrun competed fiercely for the chance to design for the dead. Join us on a walking tour of Laurel Hill Cemetery, where we will see monuments created by these early architects, as well as artists such as A. M. Calder, his son A. S. Calder, and sculptress Harriet Frishmuth, whose works grace many of Laurel Hill's memorials. The tour will examine changing tastes in grave markers over the past two centuries, from the classical obelisks and urns of the Federal period, to the richly decorated crosses of the Gothic Revival, to the massive mausoleums of the Gilded Age. The tour will be led by researcher and historian, Thomas H. Keels, author of noted texts, Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries, and Forgotten Philadelphia: Lost Architecture of the Quaker City.
Admission: $10
For More Information: 215.228.8200
Description: The Art Buggy Derby is both an intense race of SPEED and a fierce competition of INGENUITY. It's about building the fastest buggy from recycled materials that will cruise across the finish line first. But it's also about building a buggy that creates art during the journey of the race. Art that will wow the judges after the smoke settles. This is the riddle of the Art Buggy Derby - a buggy can cross the finish line second and still win the race on account of the art it created during the race.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 718.644.2744
map: location
Description: Stop by a group show of 4th Street Fabric Row design talent, with curating and exhibit design by Johnston Duffy and Jibe Design Architecture. The exhibit features advertising design, sustainable architecture, residential interiors, fashion design, and, of course, textile design. The show highlights sustainable design practices with local clothing manufacturing, local yarns, passive heating/cooling systems, and recycled furniture. Featuring Johnston Duffy Graphic Design, Stuart Goldenberg Photography, Octo
Design Group, Jibe Design Architecture, Adler’s Fabrics, Marmelstein’s Fabric, Baldwin Fabrics, Bus Stop Shoes, Wonderboy Clothing, Sophie’s Yarns, Revelations, Behind Closed Doors, and Estate Antiques. The Exhibit runs October 16-22, (Mon/Wed/Fri 9:00am – 1:00pm; Tues/Thurs 12:00pm – 7:00pm, Sat 12:00pm – 4:00pm).
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.834.9872
Description: BUS STOP (a women's shoe boutique) will feature a window installation and hold a workshop on sustainable, eco-friendly women's footwear, showcasing Terra Plana and Ground Hog shoe designs. Part of "DIRT - clean design on 4th Street"
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.627.2357
Description: Swap-O-Rama Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing.
** Please bring clean clothes to swap as part of admission.
Admission: $20, $10 for seniors **
For More Information: sorrphilly.wordpress.com
Description: Designer Jennifer Blyth will present jewelry-making demonstrations on recycling old jewelry into new custom pieces. Part of "DIRT - clean design on 4th Street"
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.928.9286
Description: Visit our gallery for a Fashion Illustration demonstration drawn from a live model wearing fabulous 4th Street clothing designs.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.928.9286
Description: Mix, mingle, and view work by a wide variety of design professionals from the 19122 zip at this open house in the Crane Arts Building. Featuring work by Marguerite Rodgers Ltd. (interior design), Veyko Inc. (architecture design & fabrication), InLiquid (art & design network), and more. Presented as part of the North American Street Design District events.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.235.3405
mrodgersltd.com
www.inliquid.com
www.veyko.com
Description: A linear series of events highlighting art, architecture and design in the burgeoning Kensington South creative community. Join Bahdeebadhu, InLiquid, Marguerite Rodgers Ltd, Veyko Inc, M.O.N.A. and others to celebrate and explore North American Street art and design, with exhibitions, installations, book signings, product launches, and all out parties as part of DesignPhiladelphia. See each event listing for specific details: "InLiquid's 19122 Outreach", "Warren Muller, Wink", and "Made on North American: Product Launch Party/Concert at M.O.N.A."
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.235.3405
www.veyko.com
mrodgersltd.com
www.inliquid.com
www.bahdeebahdu.com
Description: Please join bahdeebahdu to celebrate the publication of our in-house Luminary's coffee table book. Taking place in our grand new studio-showroom-gallery, let us entertain, inspire and amaze you as only we know how. Book debut and party as part of the North American Street Design District events.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.627.5002
Description: Come as you are to a kick-ass live concert celebrating M.O.N.A.'s arrival in the alt-design scene. Images from the collective's decorative art installations as well as prototypical furniture & architectural products will be on hand to rock your socks off, Philly-style. Part of the North American Street Design District events.
Admission: Free
Description: Join the University of the Arts Master of Industrial Design program in previewing their current work and studio space. Work from a collaboration with Campbell's, the Philadelphia Green Kitchen project, and others will be on display. Discuss these with the students and faculty currently involved.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.717.6253
Description: Cloud Gehshan Associates, one of the country's premiere environmental graphic design firms, invites you to tour our studio in Old City. Get acquainted with environmental graphic design, meet the designers and hear about our current projects. Refreshments will be served.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.829.9414 x243
Description: Join the Community Design Collaborative for the local launch of "Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism", featuring a keynote and book signing with editor Bryan Bell. Released by Metropolis Books in November 2008, Expanding Architecture features more than thirty essays exploring how design can improve daily lives and presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. By expanding the population that is currently served as well as the services offered, designers can play key roles in addressing the most critical issues – social, economic, and environmental — faced in the world today. Bryan Bell, founder and executive director of Design Corps and author of Good Deeds Good Design,
will speak on the diverse, dynamic world of architectural activism.
Co-sponsored by the Community Design Collaborative and Center for Architecture
Admission: Free RSVP
For More Information: 215.587.9290
RSVP to carryn [@] cdesignc.org
Description: New showroom and studio tour
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.925.9359
Description: Art for Lunch: Public screening of the 1977 short film by Charles and Ray Eames chronicling the relative scale of the universe in powers of ten. This nine-minute film, seen by over ten million people, is an unforgettable experience that expands the way we think about and view our world. Followed by a group discussion, moderator to be announced. This program is presented in conjunction with the October celebrations of The Powers of Ten held nationwide to promote awareness, understanding, and tolerance.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.965.4027
Description: Brett Webber Architects, a Philadelphia-based architecture firm, invites you to attend a studio tour and presentation of our work. On display will be a selection of current and recently completed projects showcasing the diversity of our commercial and residential portfolio.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.568.9751
Description: Terror Behind the Walls, the region’s premier haunted attraction, is unveiling some behind the scenes secrets to DesignPhiladelphia. Jason Ohlsen, the site’s Exhibit and Special Events Designer, will offer a unique look at the design and construction of the event. In addition, DesignPhiladelphia participants can purchase special $13 discount tickets for that evening’s tours by using the code “DESIGN” when purchasing tickets on www.ticketmaster.com (tickets must be purchased in advance for a specific time slot).
Admission: Free/$13
For More Information: www.easternstate.org/halloween
Description: The Clay Studio – Philadelphia’s premier nonprofit ceramic arts organization – is pleased to offer three exhibitions that celebrate the use of beautifully crafted, handmade ceramic objects – both tableware and sculpture – that satisfy every homeowners’ need for form and function. Cast: Tableware. The industrial practice of slipcasting is being used in individual artists Studio practices more than ever before. This exhibition highlights the work of seven local designers. Cast: Sculpture. Many contemporary sculptors are employing the use of the slip casting technique in the creation of their work, which is presented here via the work of seven additional designers/artists. Sandi Pierantozzi exhibition will also be on display.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.925.3453
www.theclaystudio.org
Description: Parents, teachers, and designers across Philadelphia are actively working to turn school grounds into greener places that enhance the lives of students and the surrounding community. Get a grass roots lesson from Greenfield Elementary School and others leading efforts to create sustainable landscapes for public schools.
Admission: Free RSVP
For More Information: 215.587.9290
RSVP to Linda [at] cdesignc.org
Description: Creating the Conditions for Change:
Integrating the principles of sustainability into design practice and production.
Valerie Casey of IDEO and founder of The Designers Accord provides practical advice on integrating the principles of sustainability into design practice and production. Ms. Casey will present the progress of the Designers Accord movement and discuss how participating design firms, educational institutions, and corporations throughout the world are making change. The lecture is hosted by Philadelphia product design firm, Bresslergroup and IDSA Philly. SRS Energy's new solar roofing system will also be showcased.
Please join us for:
6:00pm cocktail reception / studio tour
7:00pm lecture
www.designersaccord.org
www.bresslergroup.com
www.idsaphilly.com
www.srsenergy.com
Admission: Free
For More Information: Contact Desiree Ruiz at 215.209.3048 or druiz [at] bresslergroup.com
Description: Ballinger invites you to take part in an office tour and view a display of work with emphasis on sustainable projects.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.446.0386
Description: Our planet is ever changing, ever evolving. The way we live from; the buildings we work in and the clothes we wear to the gadgets we use, effect not only us individually but also our worldly environment both contextually and physically. Featuring several contemporary renowned designers and thinkers, this discussion will investigate the evolution of design in the 21st Century with topics including Green Design and Sustainability, the integration of design disciples, and the recent trends towards the creation of efficient, functional, environmentally friendly, cutting edge Design.
Panelists include:, Mark Alan Hughes Director of Sustainability City of Philadelphia – Moderator, Robert Fleming Architect, LEED AP, Debra Rubin IIDA, and Genevieve Dion, Program Director of Fashion at Drexel University.
Sponsored by Association for the Advancement and Integration of Design and Town Square: Science for Citizens
Admission: Free
For More Information: aid.creative [at] gmail.com
aid-creative.org
www.ansp.org
Description: Dr. Gary Brechin will offer the fall lecture in the 2008-09 Farajollah & Maryam Badie Arfaa Lecture Series. Dr. Brechin is the co-founder of the “Living New Deal Project” which is a collaborative effort attempting to document the often forgotten engineering and architectural achievements of Depression-relief agencies. In addition to its primary mission of recording history, Brechin expects the Living New Deal Project will raise critical issues of civic responsibility and productive governance in America today. As a writer, researcher, advocate and television producer, Brechin has been a powerful critic of the environmental degradation of the American West.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Allen Sabinson, allensabinson [at] drexel.edu, 215.895.1621
Description: The second annual Socially Responsible Fashion show So Re Fa: a fashion event presenting innovative sustainable clothing constructed of new eco materials, recycled and re-purposed, or fair trade garments. This event promotes an awareness of sustainable practices and lifestyle, featuring guest design speakers Anna Bario of Rust Belt and Kathryn Darcy of Toggery. So Re Fa showcases fashions from national designers such as Edun, Loyale, and Stewart Brown, as well as local award winning eco- designers. Following the show there will be a cocktail party and raffle for prizes from Anthropologie, Bubble Room products and more. Show begins at 7:00 pm, with a cocktail party following the event.
Admission: Free RSVP
For More Information: RSVP to info [at] arcadiaboutique.com
For more info: sorefa [at] gmail.com
www.sorefa.org
Description: Celebrate the success of DesignPhiladelphia 2008 with Innovation Philadelphia!
As the closing reception for this year's events, Innovation Philadelphia is turning the table on the traditional job fair. Design entrepreneurs and freelancers will have the opportunity to showcase their talent and portfolios for business professionals to preview and contract their services.
Join Innovation Philadelphia, one of this year's Champion Sponsors, for the final day of DesignPhiladelphia 2008.
Admission: Free pre-registration required
For More Information: Pre-register to attend at www.innovationphiladelphia.com
Description: Join us for the (almost) Grand Opening of Calderwood 2 – Design 1960-1980. Furniture, objects, accessories and lighting that blew the lid off conventional and replaced it with innovation in design and execution. The period-themed reception will be a tribute to the renaissance of imagination and creativity of the 60s, and 70s. Did someone say quiche? Was that a pig-in-a-blanket that just went by? Care for a glass of Tang or some Gatorade? Dust off your platform shoes. Iron your mini-dress. Get out your black eyeliner. Come in style. Be there or be square. Located across the street from Marc Vetri’s highly acclaimed restaurant Osteria and the chic Lofts at 640, Calderwood 2 adds to the revitalization of North Broad Street. Look for a (finally) grand opening in a few more months. Design in the time of mod.pop.op.fab.glam. Brought to you by The Calderwoods.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Rsvp 215.546.5357
www.calderwoodgallery.com
Description: User-Centered Design: Keeping It Real
Join us as our panelists discuss why great design isn't just about design. It's about people.
ABOUT THE DISCUSSION
As design professionals, we strive to create great products and great experiences, both physical and virtual, for the general public or niche markets. But many times – the cynic would say most of the time – we miss the mark. The world is full of things that are difficult and frustrating to use. And that's because designers make assumptions about how users think and do things.
Great design is user-centric design.
User-centered design (UCD) is an approach that places the user at the center of the design process from the beginning. By understanding real people's needs and behaviors during the conception and refinement of a design, we can ensure that a new product succeeds.
This discussion will include perspectives on user-centered design from professionals who create experiences in the fields of architecture, interactive design, and product design. Each panelist will present examples and strategies relevant to practitioners of user-centric design in any discipline.
Those interested in architecture, graphic design, human factors, information architecture, interaction design, product design, usability, and user experience will find the discussion highly informative and challenging.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Steve Cleff, Account Planner, Avenue A | Razorfish Philadelphia
Steve manages the Account Planning practice in the Philadelphia office of Avenue A | Razorfish, one of the world's largest interactive agencies. In this role, his responsibility is to gain the consumer insights that inspire innovation. Always seeking to balance business goals and consumer needs, Steve's strengths are understanding consumer motivations, how they affect consumer behavior, and how his clients can take advantage. Steve has worked in Interactive Marketing since 1995, in all aspects from upfront strategy to end-stage development.
Zoey Juhng, Design Director, Bresslergroup
Zoey carries an unique mix of consultancy, corporate and small business experience. She carries a keen understanding of consumer insights, product strategy, industrial design and manufacturing. With her experience, she is able to strategically customize Bresslergroup's capabilities with the needs of clients. Winning numerous IDEA, ID Magazine, Good Design, Appliance Design and Medical Excellence awards, she has a proven track record of translating winning innovations into profitable business solutions.
Formerly of Kaz, Inc. Zoey managed the design and innovation process for seasonal and pharmacy consumer product markets. Developing products for brands such as Braun, Vicks, Enviracaire and Honeywell, she led the design team and worked closely with her marketing and engineering counterparts to launch new product innovations. Zoey is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and is actively involved in IDSA. She has also taught as an Industrial Design professor at Philadelphia University.
Michael Summers, Senior Director, Usability, gsi interactive
Michael leads the user research practice at gsi interactive and runs gsi interactive's state-of-the-art eyetracking lab.
Prior to gsi interactive, Summers held key user research roles at Nielsen Norman Group, Scient, and USWeb/CKS. Most recently, Summers built his own successful user research consultancy where he conducted user research studies throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia for clients like Time Warner-AOL, Avenue A/Razorfish, AT&T, AstraZeneca, Digitas, and the National Council on Aging.
Summers holds a masters from Syracuse University, and has been invited to speak about how user research improves products to the American Center for Design (ACD), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest group in Computer-Human Interaction (SIG-CHI), and the Usability Professional's Association (UPA). Along with several journal publications, Summers also has co-authored a university textbook called "Creating Websites that Work".
Maria Keares Wyant, RA, Wyant Architecture
Maria manages design development and construction documentation for many of Wyant Architecture's projects. Having spent numerous years on the development of award-winning educational and institutional projects, she brings an in-depth knowledge of building systems and materials to the firm's design process. She approaches each project with clarity of intent and meticulous attention to detail, thoughtfully manipulating space, texture, color and light to strengthen and refine project goals. Maria holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University. She is NCARB certified, and is a registered architect in the state of Pennsylvania.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Dave Cooksey, PhillyCHI Chair
Dave is a Strategy Lead in Taxonomy & User Insights at gsi interactive, a division of GSI Commerce, a turnkey e-commerce provider located in King of Prussia, PA. Dave's work is informed by masters degrees in information systems (Drexel University) and social science (University of Illinois).
Admission: Free, rsvp
For More Information: Please rsvp byy Monday, October 20th
phillyCHI [at] gmail.com
Description: The inaugural Philadelphia Emerging Architecture Prize, presented by the Philadelphia Center for Architecture and the Philadelphia Art Alliance, will showcase the talents and design work of emerging architects and architectural firms from the Philadelphia region. Winners will be selected through a juried portfolio submission. Selected firms will present a lecture on their work at the Art Alliance. This will be followed by a round table discussion including all winning firms. An exhibition of winning firms’ work will also be displayed at the Center for Architecture and the Art Alliance. Eligibility details, submission requirements and deadlines are available at www.designphiladelphia.org
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.545.7180
Description: Join us for a presentation from Teresita Cochran, Samuel Cochran and Ben Howes, the principles of Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology, LLC, of their expanding system of photovoltaic and piezoelectric technology called GROW. See Exhibitions.
Part of "A Clean Break", an exhibition of modern, pre-fab architecture and high-design, low waste innovations for the urban environment.
Admission: Free, rsvp
For More Information: Please rsvp with Elizabeth Oliver, eoliver@minima.us or 215.922.2002
A Clean Break
Description: Ongoing October 16 -22, 2008. An exhibition of cutting-edge work submitted by students, professionals, and others in the product, graphic, and interactive design fields. The exhibition, curated by Jaime Salm, Isaac Salm, and Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich, features a broad range of work in an immersive environment.
Admission: Free
For More Information: info [at] mioculture.com
215.925.9359
Description: Exhibition dates: October 17-30, 2008. A vacant lot becomes a prefab neighborhood for two weeks with full-scale modern, sustainable, affordable homes designed by international architects. Curated by Minima gallery, the outdoor exhibition also features urban farming, environmentally-friendly furniture, lighting, transportation, public art and other high-design, low-waste consumer products. Visit www.acleanbreak.org for up-to-date event info.
Admission: Free
For More Information: Eugenie Perret, eperret [at] minima.us and Elizabeth Oliver, eoliver [at] minima.us
Minima www.minima.us 215.922.2002
www.acleanbreak.org
Sponsored in part by Minima, The University of the Arts, Gyro, and The William Penn Foundation
Description: Challenge VII twists functional design into dysFUNctional contemporary art. Included are objects and videos that were never intended to show together. The artists designed components that work with and against each other in content, form, surface and movement - evoking humor, curiosity and suspicion. The accompanying exhibition catalog was designed to be dysFUNctional yet provoke user amusement. The cover of carpet secrets the artists’ drawings and statements, providing glimmers of their innermost thoughts.
Albert LeCoff, Executive Director provides a walk-through gallery talk Saturday, October 18 at 2 pm.
This exhibition will run October 3 thru January 17, 2009
Wood Turning Center is open extended hours during Design 2008
Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.923.8000 or info [at] woodturningcenter.org
Description: A modern installation of ancient Chinese objects, natural pattern of the Dali Marble in black and white with brush stroke, cloud movement, mist and rivers… and spaciousness. Call for gallery hours. Ongoing: October 16 - November 30, 2008
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.922.2229
Description: Ongoing Sept 18 - Oct 26, 2008. The work of London-based Daniel Eatock (b.1975) constitutes an inventive response to the everyday shaped by a keen sensitivity to formal and conceptual coincidence. Trained as a designer with clients that include the BBC and the Walker Art Center, Eatock strives to avoid subjective composition while reorienting the given values of readymade objects, standards, and procedures. Unforeseen approaches to familiar problems (such as domestic storage & display, stationery, and website design), join more eccentric challenges, such as his ongoing attempts to draw a perfect freehand circle, sustain a helium balloon in constant equilibrium, or carry a glass of seawater from Brighton to London via public transport. These and other works—many realized specifically for this exhibition—consistently combine wry humor with a serial, reductive logic to create contingent forms of order amidst the chaos of contemporary life. "Extra Medium" is Eatock's first individual exhibition in the United States and coincides with the publication of Imprint, a new monograph from Princeton Architectural Press.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.572.2131
Description: Joyce J. Scott’s performances, lectures and exhibitions have played an important role in creating visibility for artists of color in the United States and Europe for more than 45 years. For that reason, Snyderman-Works Galleries is honored to present her first-ever solo exhibition in Philadelphia. The installation at Snyderman-Works Galleries will occupy most of the 3000 square foot main exhibition space. A forceful combination of historian, narrator and maker, nothing is off limits for Scott. She uses an unexpectedly heterogeneous array of materials - beadwork, hand-blown glass, appropriated African sculptures and masks, found objects- skillfully combining them into narrative sculptures. Beaded figures and heads perch on the edge of objects, investing them with a seemingly totemic role. The imagery is fierce in its energy as it is rich in color and texture, but so exquisitely made as if to say that at the end of adversity there can be ethereal beauty.
Solo exhibit by Joyce Scott, through November 15, 2008. Full color catalogue available.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.238.9576
Description: Ongoing October 13-26, 2008. A Celebration of Design will present the award winners for the 2008 AIA Awards for Design Excellence. AIA Philadelphia's Awards program recognizes significant achievements by member architecture firms in planning, design and execution of architectural projects, and promotes the public appreciation of design quality.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.569.3186
Description: Encaustic paintings and sculpture with found materials, created by Judith Hoyt, will be on display at the Works Gallery, in conjunction with DesignPhiladelphia. This exhibition will run October 3 through November 15, 2008.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.922.7775
Description: Ongoing October 16 - 22, 2008. A Sustainable Footwear Exhibition showcasing new eco-design developments in footwear materials, production, and use.
Admission: Free
For More Information: www.grow-design.com
Description: Ongoing July 12 - Nov 2, 2008. Throughout Alexander Calder's life, the artist produced more than 1,800 jewelry works of art, each made entirely of hand. This is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to his unique body of jewelry work, and consists of approximately one hundred objects, including necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings, and tiaras.
Admission: $7.00
For More Information: www.philamuseum.org
Description: In April 2008 Drexel’s Dept of Architecture & Interiors organized a Design Charrette for multi-disciplinary teams of students to address humanitarian problems. Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, gave a public lecture in the Arfaa Lecture Series and, over the following four days, led this charrette. The 13 teams of students responded to these humanitarian architectural challenges – Sustainable Portable Classrooms in Louisiana and Philadelphia, A Sport Acupuncture/ Archery Center, Bhutan, and a Sport Acupuncture/Futsal Center, San Paolo, Brazil. More information can be seen at http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/architecture , and the finished projects can be seen on the Open Architecture Network website at http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/drexel
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.569.3186
Allen Sabinson, allensabinson [at] drexel.edu, 215.895.1621
Description: Since its inception in 2003, DogHaus has become one of Philadelphia’s largest and most anticipated annual design homes uniting designers and animal lovers in an effort to help abused and neglected animals in the state of Pennsylvania. This year’s DogHaus will transform over 25 spaces of the Edgcumbe House in the heart of Chestnut Hill into an innovative yet livable showcase of design talent. Participating designers include August Interiors LLC; Burke Brothers Landscape Design/Build; Gregory Oliveri for Blue Lotus Gallery; LUXE HOME; Carrie Leskowitz Interiors; Chuck Soldano; Chris McCloud for Design 6 with Sarah Todd; David Brothers Landscape Services; Dwight Anthony Shirley; Eneida Cardona Photograhy; Fury Design Inc.; Laurel Hill Gardens; Louis Navarrete of Flourish; Lynne Rohlfing; M.O.N.A.; Michael Shannon Designs; Morrie Breyer of Breyer Studio; Rahr McNamara Home; Rebecca Paul Residential Design; Renee Norris Jones; RJ Thornburg of bahdeebahdu; Roger S Wright Furniture Ltd; BE Monograms and TDI Design.
Paint Sponsor: Benjamin Moore Paints; Martin, Banks, Pond, Lehocky & Wilson; Hellyer Berman Lewis, Inc.: Architecutre & Interior Design; Legg Mason Investment Counsel; John Capoferri Properties; Anthropologie.
Admission: $25 / Ticket price includes ca
For More Information: 215.426.6304 x227
www.spcadoghaus.org
Description: Ongoing: August 28 - December 6, 2008. Inspired by the art and culture of ancient Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, Indian and African civilizations, renowned fashion designer Mary McFadden has assembled a pantheon of creations for the adornment of the feminine form. Gowns and clothing ensembles and jewelry spanning the designer's thirty-five year career, as well as McFadden's personal collection of textiles, are featured in this exhibition organized by Moore College of Art & Design in celebration of the College's 160th Anniversary.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.965.4027
Description: This exhibition will showcase the very graphic, new work by Turkey's premier feltmaker, internationally recognized wool-master, Mehmet Girgic. Mr. Girgic uses unspun, naturally dyed wool for his art felts, created and rolled entirely by hand, in the ancient, traditional manner - with no machines or chemical intervention. Exhibition runs October 15 through November 30, 2008.
Admission: Free
For More Information: 215.413.3191
Description: City Paper and University of the Arts students team up to reimagine "information distribution." Honor boxes throughout the city will be the center of this redesign and will be installed around the city during DesignPhiladelphia.
Admission: Free