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November 17–November 23, 2013

1/ Hacking the Museum
The role museums play in our communities is changing, as is what we expect of the museum-going experience. The way we think of these places and the encounters that occur within their walls, or within the domain of their digital spaces, has evolved over the years, fueled in part by digital media. Learn about “hacking” our expectations and assumptions of what a museum is, what its role is, and how we engage with museums from a wide range of speakers who work inside and outside the museum space, in roles that are both sanctioned by the institutions, or operating completely rogue.
When: Monday, November 18, 2013, 7:00pm
Where: OfficeLinks HUB, 460 Park Avenue South, 12th FL, NYC
Price: $10 general public

2/ Design Outside the Lines
Panel discussion where we tackle big questions in design: extraordinary leaders across design and business discuss how design reaches beyond the studio to create new business models, connections between people, and ways of living.When: Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 7:00pm–9:30pm
Where: Fab Headquarters, 95 Morton Street, NYC
Price: $10 IDSA members, $15 general public

3/ How to F***Up a Perfectly Fine Magazine and Look Good While Trying
An evening with David Curcurito, Design Director of Esquire.
When: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 7:30pm–9:00pm
Where: Helen Mills Theater, 137-139 West 26th Street, NYC
Price: $15 SPD members, $30 general public

4/ Sound Design and User Experience
Learn how and why sound and music plays a crucial role in user experience design.
When: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 6pm
Where: XO Group, 195 Broadway, NYC
Price: Free NYTECH members, $20 general public

5/ Evolving the Urban Image: The Brooklyn Circus
Ouigi Theodore, aka “The Bearded Man”, of The Brooklyn Circus discusses the influences of a formative childhood growing up in 80′s Brooklyn—The Jamaican rude boys, barber shop culture, Haitian communities, Hasidic Jewish communities, pizza shops, ice cream trucks in the summer, the Brooklyn Museum and of course Spike Lee’s movies set in the gritty Brooklyn of the recent past.
When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 6:30–8:00pm
Where: Bumble and bumble, 415 W. 13th Street, 3rd floor auditorium, NYC
Price: $10 AIGA members, $30 general public

6/ An Evening of Reviews and Networking
Portfolio Reviews connect premier industry creatives with students and young creative professionals for one-on-one critiques of their creative work.
When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 4:30–7:30pm
Where: The One Club, 260 5th Avenue, 2nd Floor, NYC
Price: Free One Club members, $200 general public (includes annual membership and admission)

7/ David Adjaye
David Adjaye will present his work followed by a conversation with moderator Gregg Pasquarelli. Engaging issues of place and identity, Adjaye seeks to create “buildings [that] belong to yet diverge from their contexts, absorbing and animating difference rather than homogenizing it.” Sensitivity to materials, color, shape, and light informs the work on all scales.
When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 7pm
Where: The Great Hall, The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NYC
Price: Free League members, $15 general public

8/ Architectural and Urban Inscriptions: Between Wayfinding, Visual Language and Scenography
Starting with the wayfinding project for The New School in New York to the more modest Parsons School in Paris, Ruedi Baur will present his approach to the question of orientation and identification of public institutions. He will present his thoughts about information design in a society dominated by commercial signs.
When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, 6:30pm–8:30pm
Where: Parsons, The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, NYC
Price: $5 TDC members, $15 students, $20 general public

9/ ELEGANTISSIMA: The Design & Typography of Louise Fili
Louise Fili, a world-renowned graphic designer who has created over 2000 book covers and countless logos, packaging and signage that have been seamlessly woven into our everyday lives. Her designs and elegant typography continue to influence the way designers work around the world.
When: Thursday, November 21, 2013, Lecture 11:00am–12:00pm, Opening Reception 5:00pm–7:00pm
Where: State University of New York, Farmingdale campus, 2350 Broadhollow Road, Memorial Gallery, Hale Hall, Farmingdale, NY
Price: Free and open to the public

10/ Ruedi Baur: Writing Our Cities
Ruedi Baur will show case studies of his participatory design practice and academic labs, which often leverage the use of typography as a civic act. This talk is part of Design/Relief conversation+action around creative placemaking featuring leaders in community development and experts from around the world to present their stories and best practices in making places more visible, legible, navigable.
When: Friday, November 22, 2013, 8:30am–10:00am
Where: ARUP 77 Water Street, 4th Floor, NYC
Price: $5 AIGA members, $10 general public

11/ Art Spiegelman’s Co-Mix: A Retrospective
Celebrate the career of one of the most influential living comic artists. Best known for Maus, his Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) has produced a diverse body of work over the course of five decades that has blurred the boundaries between “high” and “low” art. From his early days in underground “comix” to the thirteen-year genesis of Maus, to more recent work including his provocative covers for The New Yorker, the exhibition highlights Spiegelman’s painstaking creative process, and includes over three hundred preparatory sketches, preliminary and final drawings, as well as prints and other ephemeral and documentary material.
When: Ongoing exhibition through Jan. 2014
Where: The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Avenue, NYC
Price: Museum admission