Nov 27

Mark Your Calendar: ‘One of a Kind’ Fashion Conference in NYC

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‘Tis the season for sartorial splendor and the annual fashion conference organized by Initiatives in Art & Culture. This year’s two-day confab, which gets underway on Friday morning at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has a bespoke vibe. Entitled “One of a Kind: Individuality, Integrity, and Innovation in Fashion,” the conference will consider “iconic individuals and institutions whose contributions–whether in terms of singular designs, entrepreneurial accomplishment, or aesthetic vision–have played critical roles in defining modern fashion” alongside a focus on extraordinary artisans and their materials. Among the speakers lined up for lectures and panels are designers Maria Cornejo and Robert Lee Morris (here’s hoping they sit next to each other and strike up a collaboration!), fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville, Saks Fifth Avenue CEO Stephen Sadove (who can spot an Akris Punto ensemble from 50 paces), Museum at FIT director Valerie Steele, and MAO PR’s Roger and Mauricio Padilha, authors of Antonio Lopez: Fashion Art, Sex, and Disco, recently published by Rizzoli. Best of all, the sharply dressed organizers have customized a discount for UnBeige readers: just enter the code “bistro” at checkout to save $100 off the regular ticket price.

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Nov 12

Mark Your Calendar: A Celebration of Eva Zeisel

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Best known for her sensuous ceramics, industrial designer Eva Zeisel died late last year, but her legacy lives on and will be celebrated tomorrow–which would have been her 106th birthday. A Public Space and PEN American Center are teaming up to present “Eva Zeisel: The Life of a Remarkable Woman,” a tribute to the life and work of the self-described “maker of things” that begins tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at New York’s Strand Bookstore. Friends and admirers of her work, including the writer and historian Istvan Deak and art historian Karen Kettering, will discuss Zeisel’s remarkable achievements. The event will also include a reading of her prison memoir (in which she describes her sixteen-month imprisonment, mostly in solitary confinement, in Russia, after being caught in early Stalinist purges and accused of plotting to kill Stalin), and audio recordings from the e-book Eva Zeisel: A Soviet Prison Memoir. Your ticket ($12) includes a copy of A Public Space Issue 14, in which the prison memoir appears in full–along with official transcripts of interrogations, and photographs from those years.

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Oct 04

Mark Your Calendar: MYOB Conference

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Whether you’re a design firm principal or just a wildly ambitious design star-in-the-making, you’ll find news you can use at HOW magazine’s Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) Conference. The three-day event, which kicks off on October 17 in Nashville, promises a program chock full of business advice geared to the challenges faced by creative-, design- and marketing-firm pros. Speakers such as David C. Baker (ReCourses), Julien Smith (Trust Agents), and Mark O’Brien (Newfangled) will fill you with ideas on “how to improve corporate positioning, grow the bottom line, and achieve your company’s full potential,” the organizers promise. UnBeige readers can save $100 on full-conference registration by entering discount code UB12 at checkout. See? You’re already saving money!

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Sep 21

Mark Your Calendar: Design-Centric Hackathon

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We’ll take a good hackathon over a brainstorming session any day, and M-RGE is cooking up a design-centric version. The New York-based community for hackers and designers, which has already attracted some 200 members with a two-month run of free workspace and classes at startup farm AlleyNYC, will hold a weekend hackfest on October 13 and 14. The design-minded twist? Designers will pitch developers, and not vice-versa. “In addition, design will be as important in winning as technology,” add the organizers, who promise abundant “food, shwag, and prizes.” Click here for details.

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Aug 28

Buck Status Quo, ‘Access Higher Level of Badass-dom’ with James Victore

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Are you looking for an autumnal kickstart to reclaiming your creativity and conquering fear and self-doubt? Eager to embark on a frank, humorous search for meaning in both work and life? Ready to tap into the “gifted super badass” that lurks inside you? Step away from the self-help books, design fans, and spend a day with James Victore. The Brooklyn-based author, designer, filmmaker, and self-described ass-kicker (at the helm of a studio “hell-bent on world domination”) has cooked up Take this Job and Love It, a confab for anyone—designers, writers, artists, small-business owners, educators, presidential candidates—who wants to learn “how to light up their career and harness their power.” Coming from anyone else, this could sound corny, but Victore has spent his career pioneering a gutsy “your work is your gift” approach, in which meaning and purpose drive every decision. And it’s worked. The one-day symposium takes place on Saturday, September 29 at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Want to attend for free? Create a video explaining why, and you might just get your wish.
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Aug 17

Now Hear This: Yale Symposium to Explore ‘The Sound of Architecture’

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Ready your tympanic membranes, design fans, because the fall runneth over with auditory delights. Mere weeks after the publication of David Byrne’s How Music Works (McSweeney’s), the Yale School of Architecture will present “The Sound of Architecture,” an interdisclipinary symposium exploring the auditory dimension of architecture (you may recall that Byrne himself is a pioneer of the building-as-musical instrument mode).

Yale professor Kurt Forster and Ph.D. candidate Joseph Clarke have lined up a veritable orchestra of experts—from fields as diverse as archaeology, media studies, musicology, philosophy, and the history of technology—to address the largely unconsidered aural dimension of architecture. Sessions include a keynote lecture by Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), who will reflect on the role of sound in her firm’s early media artworks and its more recent architectural interventions at New York’s Lincoln Center; Brigitte Shim (Shim-Sutcliffe Architects) on the architectural calibration of a house designed for a mathematician and amateur musician; and John Durham Peters of the University of Iowa on the “theologically embedded soundspace” that is the Mormon Tabernacle. Also not to be missed is Yale professor Brian Kane’s discussion of “Acousmatic Phantasmagoria,” which only sounds like the affliction of a doomed Edgar Allen Poe protagonist. The symposium, which is free and open to the public (pre-registration will be available soon here), takes place October 4-6 at the Yale School of Architecture. Fingers crossed for an opening Frank Sinatra medley by Bob Stern!

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Apr 30

Mark Your Calendar: Gravity Free, Parsons Festival, D-Crit Conference

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  • “Outlaws and Icons” is the theme of this year’s Gravity Free design conference, which kicks off tomorrow at Chicago’s Spertus Institute. The multidisciplinary affair brings together disparate design stars, from Chip Kidd and Brian Collins to Rafael de Cárdenas and Margie Ruddick. Jonathan Alger of C&G Partners will be on hand to moderate, probe, and query. And the big finish? A Wednesday afternoon keynote address by George Lois. Register here.
  • Back in New York City, the month of May brings flowers and the Parsons Festival, 20 spring days worth of exhibitions, symposia, panel discussions, critiques, and special projects that celebrate the next generation of artists and designers. There are graduate shows a-plenty, beginning with tomorrow’s fashion benefit honoring designer Donna Karan and entrepreneur Sheila C. Johnson.

  • On Wednesday, all eyes will be on the D-Critters at the School of Visual Arts as the MFA Design Criticism program presents “Eventually Everything,” its third annual conference. Change Observer co-editor Julie Lasky will moderate a day of presentations from the likes of media historian Stuart Ewen, Pentagram’s Michael Bierut, and the whipsmart student speakers. MFA candidate Anna Kealey’s talk sound particularly tasty. “I’ll be presenting my thesis topic ‘Unpacking the Pastoral Food Package,’” she tells us, “which discusses the role designers have played in perpetuating myths about how food is produced in the United States.” Yum! And save room for talks from her classmates, who’ll tackle topics including the implications of Anthropologie and the AK-47.

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    Mar 21

    Mark Your Calendar: Donut City, SVA/BBC Film Fest, Metropolis State of Design, AIPAD Photo Show

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  • In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, “Mmm. Donuts.” Splurge on L.A.’s finest (we’re partial to the sprinklebombs from Blinkie’s Donut Emporium) this weekend as ForYourArt opens its new activity space at 6020 Wilshire Blvd. with “Around the Clock: 24 Hour Donut City,” a tasty celebration that runs simultaneously with LACMA‘s 24-hour screening of “The Clock” by Christian Marclay. ForYourArt promises “a curated selection” of (free!) donuts beginning at noon on Saturday. Look sharp for the chocolate custard puff, as the selection will change every two hours. We hear that more enduring donuts will also be on offer, in the form of 1,000 pins made from Kenny Scharf’s donut paintings. The artist’s zippy donutmobile will be parked outside ForYourArt all weekend.

  • Meanwhile, here in New York, we suggest hitting up the Maison du Macaron en route to Saturday’s SVA/BBC Design Film Festival, a slate of groundbreaking BBC films that have never been screened in the United States. Curated by the all-seeing Steven Heller along with D-Crit faculty member Adam Harrison Levy, the festival includes films on topics such as the history of the Barcelona chair, the future of the book, and the real life stories that inspired Mad Men (yes, George Lois will be there). The $15 run-of-the-festival tickets are going fast, so grab one here.

  • Once you’ve recovered from the weekend’s dessert-themed cinematic adventures, head over to Steelcase’s New York HQ, which on Wednesday, March 28, plays host to the State of Design, an annual fundraising event organized by our friends at Metropolis and the Education Legacy Fund. The evening of “open, constructive dialogue about what shapes twenty-first century design and how designers respond to our evolving culture” will feature a conversation with health policy guru Ruth Finkelstein (New York Academy of Medicine) and Quest to Learn founder Katie Salen (DePaul University) moderated by Metropolis editor-in-chief Susan Szenasy. Learn more and register here.
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    Feb 27

    Mark Your Calendar: ‘Architectural Criticism Today,’ Rem Koolhaas, Kehinde Wiley, Design Film Festival

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  • Despite rumors that it is a fading art, architectural criticism continues to play an important role in the field, but what is that role, exactly? New York’s Center for Architecture, AIANY, and The Architect’s Newspaper are determined to find out this evening in a critic-stuffed panel, the first in a four-part series on Architecture and the Media. The marvelous Julie Iovine will moderate what promises to be a stimulating discussion among Paul Goldberger (The New Yorker), Justin Davidson (New York), Cathleen McGuigan (Architectural Record), and James Russell (Bloomberg). Details and tickets await you here.

  • Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Paul Holdengraber walk into a library… The architect and ubercurator sit down with the New York Public Library’s resident interlocutor/impresario on March 8 to talk Metabolism with a capital “M.” The trio will discuss Koolhaas and Obrist’s new Taschen tome Project Japan, part oral history and part documentation of Japan’s radical mode of nation building. Among the topics they’ll tackle: how an activist state mobilized its best talents and meticulously planned the future of its cities, how the media adopted the architect as a serious agent of social change (think anti-starchitect). Snap up your tickets here.

  • March is shaping up to be a good month for Kehinde Wiley. Look for the artist’s work to be front and center at Sean Kelly’s Armory Show booth (March 8-11) just as New York’s Jewish Museum debuts 14 large-scale paintings from his newest series, “The World Stage: Israel,” complete with hand-carved wooden frames designed by Wiley. On Thursday, March 15, he’ll take the museum’s stage to discuss the work with Lola Ogunnaike. Learn more here.

  • Right up there on our list of favorite things are Steven Heller and documentary films, and the two come together in the SVA/BBC Design Film Festival. Here’s your chance to view groundbreaking BBC films that have never previously been screened in the United States. The ridiculously solid program includes films on topics such as the history of the Barcelona chair, the future of the book, and the real life stories that inspired Mad Men (yes, George Lois will be there!). Curated by the all-seeing Heller along with D-Crit faculty member Adam Harrison Levy, the festival takes place Saturday, March 24, at the SVA Theatre. The $15 run-of-the-festival tickets are sure to go faster than you can say “BBC Heaven,” (see below) so grab one here.
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    Feb 03

    Mark Your Calendar: Shepard Fairey Does Dallas, Todd Oldham on Girard, Agnès B. Film Festival

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  • Shepard Fairey does Dallas! The street artist is making his mark on The Big D with a series of murals that will be unveiled tomorrow. The citywide project is sponsored by Dallas Contemporary, which is celebrating with an “over-the-top, neon-inspired” Saturday night dance party (fingers crossed for glowsticks!). Fairey will balance DJing duties with signing merch from the on-site OBEY pop-up shop. Meanwhile, the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas are organizing an art bus tour for next Saturday, February 11. Stops include the current Rob Pruitt, David Jablonowski, and Failure exhibitions at Dallas Contemporary, several of the Fairey murals, and a studio visit with Dallas-based graffiti crew Sour Grapes. Don’t miss the bus: tickets are going fast here.
  • Lately we’ve been sleeping with a copy of Todd Oldham and Kiera Coffee’s wondrous Alexander Girard mega-monograph under our pillow, and next Tuesday, February 14, Pratt Institute welcomes the delightful Oldham for a lecture on all things Girard, from his iconic textile designs for Herman Miller and branding and environmental design for Braniff International Airways to his celebrated retail store Textiles and Objects and folk art-stuffed Girard Foundation. The 6 p.m. lecture is free and open to the public, but Pratt students get first dibs on seats.

  • As part of its burgeoning “Fashion at FIAF” programming, our friends at the French Institute Alliance Francaise here in New York have invited agnès b. (née Agnès Andrée Marguerite Troublé) to curate a month-long series of films that have most influenced her life and career as a designer, photographer, and more recently as a film producer and director. Among her picks are Godard‘s Vivre Sa Vie and Pierrot le Fou, while Valentine’s Day revelers can be transported to St. Tropez at one of three V-Day screenings of …And God Created Woman, starring Brigitte Bardot. The fashionable French fun kicks off on Tuesday, when agnès b. will appear in person to present the first film in the series, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, directed by Jean “Yes, he’s my dad” Renoir. Buy your tickets here.

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