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March 2–March 8, 2014

1/ Sustainable Food & Farming Iconathon
The Noun Project and GRACE Communications Foundation and Mother Jones will host an event to create a set of internationally recognizable icons that will help increase communication around food issues to be released into the public domain for use in ag journalism, local/sustainable food marketing, online sustainable food directories and mobile applications.
When: Sunday, March 2, 2014, 10:30am–3:30pm
Where: School of Visual Arts, MFA Interaction Design, 136 West 21 Street, Third Floor, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public

2/ Bertrams Books
A beautiful book is a compliment to the author and a declaration of love to the reader. How can good typography and passionate manufacturing can help the book to survive the 21st century?
When: Monday, March 3, 2014, 6:30pm–8:30pm
Where: Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street #603, NYC
Price: $5 TDC members, $15 students, $20 general public

3/ MIX: Designers + Drinks = ____
RoAndCo hosts the March edition of MIX, AIGA/NY’s monthly party at the Wooly. Grab a drink (cash bar), mingle with this lovely group, take a picture in the photobooth and hit the dance floor with DJ Egyptian Musk!
When: Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 7pm–12am
Where: The Wooly, 11 Barclay Street, NYC
Price: Free AIGA members

4/ Designing + Making: Innovative Collaborations
US manufacturers and designers will present case studies that explore how the combination of materials, research, new technologies and the handmade can work together in successful collaborations, and how this is helping to change the design landscape.
When: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7pm
Where: Museum of Arts an Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NYC
Price: Free with museum admission

5/ The Living and Surfacedesign, Inc.
Geoff di Girolamo, James Lord, and Roderick Wyllie, principals of the San Francisco landscape architecture and urban design practice, Surface Design Inc., discuss creating landscapes that “connect people to their built environment” with an emphasis on “personal histories and connections between culture and natural environment.”
When: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7pm
Where: Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway, NYC
Price: Free Arch League members, $10 general public

6/ The Armory Show
The Armory Show is a leading international contemporary and modern art fair.
When: Thursday, March 6 through Sunday, March 9
Where: Piers 92 and 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street, NYC
Price: Ticket price varies on admission type

7/ Points of Departure: Treasures of Japan
The exhibition showcases over two thousand years of Japan’s art-making, while illuminating its particular strengths in lesser known but revelatory artifacts like delicate bark fiber robes, beaded jewelry, and wood carvings made by the indigenous Ainu people of northern Japan.
When: Ongoing Friday, March 7 through Sunday, June 8, 2014
Where: Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, NYC
Price: Free Japan Society members and children, $10 students, $12 general public

8/ Dustin Yellin
Yellin is best known for his sculptural paintings—works that emerge as intricate, three-dimensional objects after the successive layering of multiple panes of highly detailed (ink, acrylic, and collage) glass.
When: Friday, March 7, 2014, 8:30am–10am
Where: Pioneer Works, Center for Art & Innovation, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn
Price: Free and open to the public. Must RSVP.

9/ The Art of Rodrigues
An exhibition of cartooning work from the late Charles Rodrigues. Rodrigues worked for just about every magazine that ran gag panels and spreads, such as Esquire, TV Guide, The Critic, National Lampoon and Stereo Review,.
When: Through Saturday, March 8, 2014
Where: Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public