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Phoenix Design Week is coming!
Phoenix Design Week is coming. The conference line-up was posted this week. It’s going to be an incredible event. If you haven’t yet, register!
What
Phoenix Design Week 2009 is a celebration of the local design community. It will include a variety of exhibitions, open houses, workshops, presentations, activities, films and other community-growth oriented events.
When
October 21st to October 25th
Where
- Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:
Terralever, Santy Integrated, The Clarendon, Kitchen Sink Studios - Wednesday Night: Terralever
- Thursday Night: Santy Integrated
- Friday Night: Madcap Theaters
- Saturday: Phoenix Convention Center
- Saturday Night: The Clarendon
- Sunday: Phoenix Convention Center
Who
Phoenix Design Week exists for print, web, motion, and interactive designers as well as those with an inherent appreciation for design. This incredible event is made possible with the support and expertise of AIGA Arizona, many local design agencies, and a large pool of volunteers.
Why
Phoenix Design Week is intended to unite and strengthen the Phoenix design industry by giving designers an opportunity to forge relationships, share experiences, expand their knowledge, and reignite their passion for their craft.
How…Much?
Through the support of the community we are able to bring this amazing event to everyone for only $40; compare that to other comprobable conferences typically priced above $300.
No comments. Posted by tanner in conference, featured, social change on 28 September 2009.
SeeSaw 2010 Letterpress Calendar
Our friends at SeeSaw Design recently finished printing their 2010 calendar. Inspired by nature and a love for classic modern shapes. The result is a playful exploration of form and color interaction.
This limited-edition wall calendar includes four designs, each with 3 months per page (size is 7.25″x11.5″). Each piece was letterpress printed on Crane’s Lettra 100% cotton paper using our antique Kluge printing press. The design emphasizes use after the year is over: trim off the dates, and keep the four pieces as prints. The calendars retail for $28, but are available for wholesale at $14 each. You can by this little beauty here.
No comments. Posted by adria in letterpress, limited edition on 17 September 2009.
Film the Blanks is an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters.
No comments. Posted by adria in movie, poster on 20 August 2009.
Believe it or not this awesome work is in our very own Arizona desert around Prescott. Most of these pieces are on a Navajo reservation; the walking figures are code talkers. Beautiful use of colors by artist Yote.
No comments. Posted by adria in streetart on 18 August 2009.
Check Dave’s OK is an experimental book format featuring a scale used to measure David Marsh’s current level of emotional stress. Each page represents a level on the scale. An attached bookmark is used to show my current status on any particular day.
No comments. Posted by adria in books, color on 1 August 2009.
Computer Animation of Helicopter Tragedy
Kitchen Sink Studios, Adria’s place of employment, was recently asked to develop a video re-enactment of a helicopter crash involving two local television news copters.
It was a day that will forever live in the minds of Phoenix residents, when an unthinkable tragedy took the lives of four people who seemed like family members to many in the city.
On July 27, 2007, two television news helicopters crashed into each other while covering a high-speed chase in central Phoenix, killing the crews in both. In the aftermath, it was difficult to determine how something like this could happen — but necessary to resolve the legal issues surrounding the crash.
That’s why Pat McGroder of Gallagher & Kennedy, which represented the victims’ families from the Channel 3 helicopter in the case (Bowerbank/Cox vs. US Helicopters, ET AL.), brought in Kitchen Sink Studios to help.
To me, this is a great example of how design can be used to help solve a real world problem. I’m sure this type of design goes unnoticed every day, but I find KSS’s involvement in this case particularly interesting.
No comments. Posted by tanner in motion, social change on 28 July 2009.
Experimenting with form and content: William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin’s Farewell Speech
The video floating on the tubes today of William Shatner reading Sarah Palin’s resignation speech reminds me of Chip Kidd’s Form/Content experimentation when he released The Learners.
[UPDATE: NBC yanked the video from YouTube.]
No comments. Posted by tanner in politics, video on 28 July 2009.
