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Irina Lee
Monday 8 November 2010
DESIGN ROUNDUP is your weekly guide to the NYC design community.
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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 Guardian newspaper. Christian Schwartz will discuss the complete process behind the development of Guardian Egyptian, including false starts and changes of direction, and explain how and why the Guardian’s needs lead to a family of 200-odd styles.
When: Monday, November 15, 2010, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Cooper Union Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public
2/ Pilar Viladas, Words and Pictures
Pilar Viladas, design editor, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, will discuss her work as a magazine editor and writer, and how doing both involves constantly alternating between two different mindsets.
When: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: Design Criticism MFA Department, 136 West 21st Street, Floor 2, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public
3/ AIGA/NY Members Series: My Dog and Pony III
Back again, another chance to be a fly on the wall during other designer’s presentations. Re-presenting presentations, just as they were presented to the client will be Eric Adolfsen and Mike Calvert of Brand New School (Cartoon Network rebranding), Greg Matson of Mother (Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular at the Standard Hotel), Joe Marianek of Pentagram (Guitar Hero), and Debbie Millman, Chair of the SVA Branding program (pitching a degree program).
When: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, in DUMBO, Brooklyn
Price: $13 AIGA members, $26 general public
4/ Real or Surreal Photography and Illustration Benefit Auction
Join SPD auction chairs Gail Anderson and Jennifer Pastore for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in a benefit auction to raise funds for educational outreach and scholarship opportunities.
When: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Where: Milk Gallery, 450 West 15th Street, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public
5/ Barbara deWilde and Peter Mendelsund: Seeking Approval
Barbara deWilde and Peter Mendelsund, longtime Knopf jacket designers, delve into their oeuvre, and offer a grand tour of rejection, insecurity, resistance, obstinance, and egoism in an attempt to highlight the overall psychodrama of the approval process.
When: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: Type Directors Club Center, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, NYC
Price: Free for TDC members, $15 students, $20 general public
6/ Peter Schjeldahl: Of Ourselves and of Our Origins: Subjects of Art
Critic Peter Schjeldahl will pose the question, “At a time when art is being publicly gamed to exhaustion, can we still, or again, speak sensibly of what we like about it, deep down?” Schjeldahl has been the art critic of The New Yorker since 1998. Prior to that he was a regular art critic for The New York Times, The Village Voice, ARTnews and 7 Days, and published five books of poetry between 1967 and 1981.
When: Thursday, November 18, 2010, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Where: SVA Theatre, 333 West 23 Street NYC
Price: Free and open to the public
7/ WDGFC 2010: The 7th Annual World Graphic Design Foosball Championship
Foosball will be played, beer will be consumed and the winner will again walk away with the coveted one-legged trophy as the years most outstanding graphic design foosball side.
When: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Where: Art Directors Club Gallery, 106 West 29th Street, NYC
Price: $30 team entry fee, free for spectators
8/ Chip Kidd & Lisa Birnbach: True Prep book signing
From Lisa Birnbach, the author of The Official Preppy Handbook and designer Chip Kidd, comes a whole new take on the prep world that Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.
When: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:00 pm
Where: Borders Books at Columbus Circle, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public
9/ Creative Art Making Workshop: Pop Culture Soft Sculpture
This workshop for adults will teach you how to create a pop culture soft sculpture using images of women from an assortment of resources. Learn basic embroidery techniques to stitch together a printed giclée soft sculpture.
When: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Price: $15 materials fee