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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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