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ChiDM Loves Fashion
During this behind-the-scenes tour of Columbia College’s Fashion Study Collection, we will view the modern California fashions purchased in stores like Joseph Magnin, Zody’s, and Standard Shoes—retailers where Deborah Sussman worked on their visual identities. There will also be an informal presentation on modernity in fashion, and an examination of garments or accessories that typify mid-century and California design. Tickets for this tour are $10 and available in advance through Eventbrite.
Find out more »AIGA — Breakfast Club
Wednesday, February 4 8:00AM–10:00AM MAP ROOM 1949 NORTH HOYNE AVENUE CHICAGO, IL 60647 Join the Breakfast Club Attention every person with any kind of creative job: you’re invited to a very exclusive club. Our first meeting of 2015 is February 4, and it’s happening at the Map Room. Start your day off right with some friendly banter, maybe a little networking and definitely plenty of delicious Intelligentsia coffee. It’s a casual thing—stop in, stick around for as long as you…
Find out more »Estrada Design Odyssey Gallery Opening
Monday, Feb 7th 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Harrington College of Design 200 W Madison Cost: $10 with a $5 discount for AIGA/STA members. Please pay at the door. Exhibition runs from Mon, Feb 2–Mon, March 2nd Estrada: Design Odyssey “Design is traveling to an unrevealed destination. Milton Glaser defines the process as moving forward in the fog. A journey throughout the unknown that ceases to be strange for the designer once he gets over and decrypts it. On that…
Find out more »ELLI GOTLIEB GALLERY I NINA CHO I UNTITLED I OPENING
CHICAGO – Elli Gotlieb Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition, hosted by industrial design firm, MINIMAL, with solo presentation Untitled by artist Nina Cho. In Untitled, Cho explores language in a sculptural form, blurring the line between art and product. Across a vast landscape wherein objects occupy wall, floor, and tabletop space, Cho’s process is one in which form follows function as material, finish, and color are exercised to deepen the dialogue of definition. “With an effective and thoughtful process,…
Find out more »Crafting Type
Crafting Type is an intense 3-day workshop where absolute beginners learn how to design typefaces and intermediate type designers boost their skills. We run it around the world at cities large and small to bring you a solid start in type design. You may not be considering a career as a type designer. Many people we meet at our workshops have already established great careers as artists, architects, and illustrators. Sometimes we see customers again who travel in from another…
Find out more »Font Detective, Extra Bold
Thomas Phinney discusses and shows evidence from several of the cases he has been called into as a typographic consultant, including a forged will, a frontier mailbag, a fake rabbi, and the fake documents about President Bush’s National Guard service. Attendees will learn how mistakes in typography, printing and font selection ruined what could have otherwise been perfectly good forgeries. About Thomas Phinney Thomas Phinney is a consulting font guru, type designer, and vice president of FontLab, the font tools…
Find out more »ChiDM Loves Interiors
This discussion group will explore post-war housing, the manufacturing of furniture and appliances, and the domestic interior within a distinctly California style through articles and essays by leading design historians. PDFs of readings will be sent to participants upon registration. Led by curatorial committee member Morgan Walsh. Tickets for this free discussion are limited, so please RSVP through Eventbrite today.
Find out more »AIGA Small Talks 1: Digital Kitchen
About Small Talks AIGA Chicago Small Talks are intimately scaled events offering attendees the opportunity to learn about business practices, view work and experience environments at local studios and firms first-hand. About Digital Kitchen Digital Kitchen is an independent creative digital agency with offices in Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. The agency’s unique approach of blending digital, film, experiential design and rich brand storytelling provides creative business solutions for a roster of clients including AT&T, Microsoft, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas…
Find out more »STA Design Inspiration Weekend: Inspiration, Influence, Impetus
Join fellow colleagues for informal talks and friendly gatherings at the 22nd annual STA Design Inspiration Weekend. You’ll find instant camaraderie, stimulating design, and just plain fun, along with good food and bowling. It’s a great way to meet new people or reconnect, to share stories and get invigorated, and to live it up or enjoy downtime. This year, STA is excited to host Ben Van Dyke for the keynote address on Inspiration, Influence, Impetus. Ben was awarded a Fulbright…
Find out more »Typeforce Submissions Due
Typeforce submissions are due Jan 9. For more information to submit: typeforcechicago.com Include a PDF file with description of work, approximate size, images of work or previous work if not yet completed. Ideally, we would like a series of pieces or enough work to take up a 10×10′ wall.
Find out more »Adobe Creative Cloud: From Print to Web to Object Designer
The Chicago Design Museum is pleased to partner with Adobe, one of our 2014-2015 sponsors, for this workshop. Each ticket comes with a chance to win a 12-month Creative Cloud Membership, which will be raffled at the event. Thursday, January 08, 2015 6:00-9:00 PM Tickets available on Eventbrite; students and members receive a discount Adobe’s Senior Worldwide Evangelist Paul Trani runs us through the very latest updates and developments in the 2014 release of Adobe Creative Cloud for print, digital, and 3D…
Find out more »OTHER Family — 1st Edition
OTHER Studio presents the printed work of 10 designers and illustrators. Join me and my extended creative family in celebrating the graphic arts. ——————– Artists: Matt Chase (DC) — chasematt.com Lan Truong (NYC) — lantruong.com Ryan Hubbard (KC) — ryanjhubbard.com Charlene Sepentzis (MTL) — cpen10.com Kiyomi Negi-Tran (CHI) — kiyominegitran.com Taupe Editions (DC) — taupe-editions.com Ryan Troy Ford (CHI) — ryantroyford.com Matthew Harlan (CHI) — matthewharlan.com Brad Urso (SEA) — bradleyurso.tumblr.com Eileen Tjan (CHI) — eileentjan.com ——————– Tunes by Sloslylove ——————– Work will be for sale. Snacks and beverages will be…
Find out more »Volatile Smile BEATE GEISSLER, OLIVER SANN, AND BRIAN HOLMES
What made Chicago a center of speculative culture—a culture which so rapidly emerged as the “non-place” where cybernetic logic bears it strangest and perhaps most powerful fruits? On December 10, artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann and art critic Brian Holmes will discuss their new Graham-funded book Volatile Smile, which investigates the impact of technology on systems of global commerce. An elucidating collage of text, images, and interviews, Geissler and Sann’s latest project provides fundamental and unprecedented insights into the mutual…
Find out more »Collective Creativity and the Participatory City EVA J. FRIEDBERG AND ALISON HIRSCH
In conjunction with the exhibition Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971, the Graham Foundation is pleased to present the Chicago launch of the Graham-funded book City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America by landscape architectural designer and urban historian Alison Hirsch. Hirsch will be joined by fellow grantee, architectural historian Eva J. Friedberg to discuss the influences, development, and impact of Anna and Lawrence Halprins’ collaborative workshops. Friedberg will trace the origins of the Halprins’ partnership, highlighting the parallels between architecture…
Find out more »Lucky Dragons LAMPO PERFORMANCE SERIES
Los Angeles-based collaborative Lucky Dragons will premiere “RSVP Partita,” a performance created for the Graham Foundation and Lampo that treats Lawrence and Anna Halprin’s RSVP Cycles and their workshop-based approach to the creative processes, developed in the late 1960’s, as a musical form. Presented in conjunction with the Graham’s current exhibition, Experiments in Environment: The Halprin Workshops, 1966-1971, this new work interweaves score, performance, and evaluation to create an iterative suite for instrumentalists, software, and group conversation. Lucky Dragons is a collaboration between artists…
Find out more »SAIC Holiday Art Sale
SAIC 26th Annual Holiday Art Sale Give creatively this holiday season while supporting emerging artists and designers. Each year, more than 120 SAIC students exhibit and sell their work to the Chicago community at the Holiday Art Sale. Free and open to the public, the 26th Annual Holiday Art Sale will feature a diverse selection of one-of-a-kind photographs, paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints and drawings, jewelry and fashion accessories, and more. Holiday Art Sale Preview Event Thursday, November 20, 6:00–9:00 p.m.…
Find out more »Making the Modern Landscape CORNELIA HAHN OBERLANDER AND SUSAN HERRINGTON
On November 19, Graham Foundation grantee Susan Herrington will discuss her new book, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, published by the University of Virginia Press. She will be joined by Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander for this special book launch and talk. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander has been creating innovative landscapes for more than sixty years. Her work with preeminent architects throughout Canada and the United States has provided sustainable solutions for private gardens and public spaces. Susan Herrington is professor…
Find out more »A Preview of the Future… ZOË RYAN
Under the overarching title, The Future is Not What it Used to Be, the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial explores the potential of the design manifesto to envision and interrogate the future, now. In our contemporary context of rapid social and political change, how might design manifestos address larger issues while remaining grounded in everyday life? Could the manifesto move beyond its Western origins and incorporate ideas from across cultures? Are new forms of media generating new forms of manifestos? Zoë Ryan, John…
Find out more »Feather Loft Open Studios
DATE & TIME November 15, Noon-7pm LOCATION Feather Loft Studios 355 N Laflin St West Loop, Chicago 60607 Please join us for our annual Open Studios event! This is a unique opportunity to tour the work spaces of various artists and crafters in the Feather Loft Studios. This event is open to the public and offers a chance to meet the artists, purchase and privately commission work, and visit our beautiful historic building. With the holidays around the corner, this…
Find out more »CHENG, DILTS, HAASCH AND REYES: ON TECHNOLOGY
Join us for ON Technology, a panel discussion of major topics at the intersection of technology and design—from the growth of the sharing economy, through the evolution of grassroots movements, to the rapid, digital-driven changes we’re seeing in the design industry. The conversation will be hosted by Morningstar and moderated by WBEZ’s Lauren Chooljian, with participation from some of Chicago’s leading design and technology thinkers in what promises to be a candid take on a range of topics. Afterwards, we’ll…
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