Monday 6 June 2011

DESIGN ROUNDUP / SEE YOU IN THE FALL!

DESIGN ROUNDUP: HAVE A GREAT SUMMER Design Roundup is taking a summer break! We will resume our regular posts in September 2011 to bring you the latest and greatest happenings in the NYC design community. Get in touch if you’d like to suggest an event. See you in the fall! Want to suggest an event?

Wednesday 1 June 2011

Event Recap: Unique New York: Auction Party

Members and guests of the New York Chapter of AIGA gathered on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at Pentagram for Unique New York: The Auction Party, the inaugural live auction fundraiser. Proceeds from the auction will help our chapter to cover the shortfalls of sponsorship this year and contribute substantially to our mission. “Without the funding…

Sunday 22 May 2011

DESIGN ROUNDUP / MAY

DESIGN ROUNDUP is your weekly guide to the NYC design community. Be sure to check back every Monday for a fresh list of events. Want to suggest an event? May 29 – June 4, 2011 1/ Open Exhibition Open is an exhibition of installation art and photography by students at the School of Visual Art…

Monday 16 May 2011

DESIGN ROUNDUP / MAY

DESIGN ROUNDUP is your weekly guide to the NYC design community. Be sure to check back every Monday for a fresh list of events. Want to suggest an event? May 22 – May 28, 2011 1/ The Blue Marble Scoop: From Brooklyn to Rwanda all for the Love of Ice Cream Alexis Miesen and Jennie…

Monday 9 May 2011

DESIGN ROUNDUP / MAY

DESIGN ROUNDUP is your weekly guide to the NYC design community. Be sure to check back every Monday for a fresh list of events. Want to suggest an event? May 15 – May 21, 2011 1/ TAG Heuer Competition Project Presentations The Swiss luxury watch company TAG Heuer invited Parsons product design students to reinterpret…

Friday 6 May 2011

Type Masters Week in NYC

What makes a good typeface? — Erik Spiekermann, June 7 I get asked this question a lot. My answer is always fairly vague: there’s history, fashion, technology, experience, users to consider. Most of these parameters are subjective. A few things, however, can be established by looking closer. What is Bold as opposed to Medium? How…

Monday 2 May 2011

Event Recap: Teaching Design with Carin Goldberg

Teaching Design with Carin Goldberg, Instructor at the School of Visual Arts, Thursday April 21, 2011 at Bumble and bumble, 3rd floor auditorium. Carin Goldberg has been teaching at the School of Visual Arts for the past 30 years. Her courses include a third year type class and senior portfolio class. In her presentation she…

DESIGN ROUNDUP / MAY

DESIGN ROUNDUP is your weekly guide to the NYC design community. Be sure to check back every Monday for a fresh list of events. Want to suggest an event? May 8 – May 14, 2011 1/ Parsons Festival Parsons The New School for Design presents the Parsons Festival, inaugurating an annual tradition of hosting art…

Monday 25 April 2011

Visual AIDS

For the fourth consecutive year, Visual AIDS presents a group exhibition at La MaMa La Galleria to coincide with the June LGBT Pride celebrations. Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words includes over forty text-based works by visual artists and designers whose reactions to and connections through HIV/AIDS reflect the contemporary moment’s tenor on the pandemic….

DESIGN ROUNDUP / MAY

DESIGN ROUNDUP is your weekly guide to the NYC design community. Be sure to check back every Monday for a fresh list of events. Want to suggest an event? May 1 – May 7, 2011 1/ Present Tense: The 2011 D-Crit Conference Moderated by documentary film producer Adam Harrison Levy, and featuring New York Times…