Monday 13 December 2010

DESIGN ROUNDUP / SEE YOU IN 2011

DESIGN ROUNDUP: December 19 – January 3, 2011 Design Roundup will be taking a holiday hiatus! We will resume our regular posts on Monday, January 3, 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 2011! Want…

Thursday 9 December 2010

Event Recap: Cynthia Rowley

Cynthia Rowley talked about her multi-disciplinary practice, the creative process and collaborations at the AIGA/NY Cynthia Rowley event held at Tishman Auditorium on Thursday, December 2, 2010. Willy Wong introduced and moderated the discussion. On starting out as a designer: Cynthia Rowley recalled she sewed her first outfit when she was 7 years old. “My…

Monday 6 December 2010

DESIGN ROUNDUP / DECEMBER

DESIGN ROUNDUP: December 12 – December 18, 2010 This 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? 1/ Breakfast Club December: The Art (and Science) of Negotiating When is the last time you said “I’m really…

Monday 29 November 2010

DESIGN ROUNDUP / DECEMBER

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? December 5 – December 11, 2010 1/ Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo will present two works in progress: Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, Colorado,…

Monday 22 November 2010

Event Recap: Handmade at Etsy

Participants gathered at the AIGA/NY Handmade at Etsy workshop held at the whimsical Etsy Headquarters in Brooklyn, NY on November 18, 2010. The sold-out event was organized by the AIGA/NY Community Committee to get the AIGA/NY community together to learn a printmaking technique. The workshop began with a full fare of snacks and wine generously…

DESIGN ROUNDUP / DECEMBER

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? November 28 – December 4, 2010 1/ Round Pegs in Square Holes: Developing Type for Screen-based Media As digital technologies evolved over the past 20 years,…

Monday 15 November 2010

DESIGN ROUNDUP / NOVEMBER

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? November 21 – November 27, 2010 1/ Alberto Alessi in Conversation with Bill Moggridge The conversation will focus on the history of Alessi’s development as an…

Thursday 11 November 2010

Event Recap: Marian Bantjes, I Wonder

Marian Bantjes presented her work and her new book I Wonder at the AIGA/NY Marian Bantjes: I Wonder event held on November 1, 2010 at the F.I.T. Haft Auditorium. She talked about past work, discussed her process in writing the book, and showed several time-lapse videos from creating the artwork. Paula Scher introduced Marian Bantjes….

Monday 8 November 2010

DESIGN ROUNDUP / NOVEMBER

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? November 14 – November 20, 2010 1/ The Guardian Egyptian In 2003 Paul Barnes was approached to be the typo­graphic consultant on the redesign of the…

Thursday 4 November 2010

ADC 2010 Festival of Fame

This week kicks off the biennial Art Directors Club Festival of Fame honoring the 2010 Laureates: Fabien Baron, creative director, currently editorial director, Interview magazine Matthew Carter, typographer William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand, founders, Winterhouse Philip Hays (posthumous), illustrator, educator Brigitte Lacombe, photographer George Nelson (posthumous), designer, author Christoph Niemann, illustrator Dan Wieden, cofounder, Wieden+Kennedy…