DesignPhiladelphia–Final Day

23 Oct

This is it!  Today have a final taste of DP before we close up the celebration for the year.

Beginning Vandercook Letterpress Workshop

Red Wheel Press & Hymy Industries

2215 E. Tioga Street

Sunday October 23, 2011

11am-5pm

Beginning Letterpress Printing is a six hour, hands-on workshop covering the basics of printing, typesetting (wood & metal type), Vandercook press maintenance, troubleshooting press & printing issues, inking, paper use & designing.

Admission: $125

RSVP www.thefactorye.com/red-wheel-press

www.hymyind.com

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The Art of the Automobile: A Presentation by Michael Furman

Simeone Automobile Foundation Museum

6825-31 Norwitch Drive

Sunday October 23, 2011

12pm

Design trends have moved the automobile from its humble “horseless carriage” beginnings to the powerful force that has influenced our landscape, created environmental issues, and impacted foreign policy. But, the automobile is not just a tool to assist in our transportation needs. From Michael Furman’s unique position as a visual chronicler, designer, and author, he will present some of the most beautiful and important cars of the last one hundred years.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.michaelfurman.com

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Symposium: Imaging and Imagining Our Cities

The University of the Arts, The Gershman Y

401 S. Broad Street

Sunday October 23, 2011

3pm-5pm

Abandoned America, Ordos (China), Arcosanti (Arizona), and Masdar City (U.A.E.) – four regions, four models, four pasts, and four futures, yet all saying something about the “now” — the present moment in our cities. In conjunction with the Open Lens Gallery exhibition Before and After Utopia: Images of Abandonment, Absence and Aspiration, this symposium will examine how we have imaged and imagined our cities a decade into the new millennium, and what our observations, documentation, and participation in the evolution of cities means for the future of the urban metropolis. Panelists include: Elijah Anderson, author of the Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life and other notable books on urban life; Photo Reviewfounder & editor Stephen Perloff, Matthew Christopher Murray of abandonedamerica.us.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.gershmany.org

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Tease

Scissor Candy and Richard Nicholas

National Mechanics, 22 S. 3rd Street in Old City

Sunday October 23, 2011

7pm

As part of DesignPhildelphia’s closing celebration, Scissor Candy and Richard Nicholas bring vivacious vixens together for Tease, an event that will seduce and allure you. Ten salons will change live models into saucy sirens by interpreting pin-up beauty of another era through hair, makeup and wardrobe. With models flirting their way across several stages, guests will be enticed to join the ladies for a photograph or a tease makeover by our guest hairstylists. Come hither, take a peak, and be teased.

Free and open to the public.

www.scissorcandy.com
We hope you had a blast during DP’s 7th annual design celebration! Keep an eye out for our next email for your chance to win an awesome design package for filling out our survey. Check out www.designphiladelphia.org for the full events calendar.

DesignPhiladelphia–Day 10

22 Oct
Closing time is nearby! Enjoy a full day of events plus the beginning of the end on the lot across from the Kimmel Center.

DesignPhiladelphia Closing Party

Empty lot on 313 S. Broad Street

7pm-10pm

Time to roll out the red carpet again! Join us for the grand finale of DesignPhiladelphia 2011 a screening of all the the films from The Play House installation project, music by our favorite DJ’s – Broadzilla, and free beer donated by Triumph brewery for the third year in a row (we love them).

shiftspacedesign

SHIFT_DESIGN Pop- Up Shop

SHIFT_DESIGN
2313 Fairmount Avenue, Plants Etc.
October 22-23
10am-5pm
Our products will be sold exclusively to the public during pop up shop events, where you will meet the designers and see our latest projects exhibited. SHIFT_DESIGN creates using features of mass customization, flat pack shipping and material engineering. This reinforces our environmental mission which promotes local manufacturing, waste-reduction methods and long product life-cycles. Through a blend of precision technologies and traditional fabrication, our outdoor products facilitate a way of living that brings sustainable practices into daily life.

www.shiftspacedesign.com

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Murals & Meals

Mural Arts Program

Le Bec Fin, 1523 Walnut Street

Saturday October 22, 2011

10am

The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is pleased to announce a special Murals & Meals Tour as part of DesignPhiladelphia and with Le Bec Fin’s George Perrier.

Led by Gary Steuer, the Director of Philadelphia’s Department of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, the tour provides a taste of Philadelphia’s renowned murals, public sculptures and designed spaces followed by lunch and presentation by Georges Perrier on Le Bec Fin’s interior design. Discover the one-of-a-kind cuisine, public art, and design that Philadelphia has to offer in an intimate setting with proceeds benefiting Mural Arts Program initiatives.

Wheelchair Accessible.

Admission: $60

*THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

www.muralarts.tix.com

www.muralarts.org

casa papel

Paper Flower Class

October 22, 10am-12pm
Casa Papel
804 N. Second Street

Learn how to make several styles of flowers. No experience necessary. Special promotion for DesignPhiladelphia followers; cost for this class is normally $25. All materials and instructions are included. We will bring out our “scraps” and off-cuts left over from projects, recycle the material into a beautiful bouquet that will last a long, long, time.

*THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT Please call or email us at: 267-791-9149 or hello@casapapel.comwww.casapapel.com

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Getting Dressed

Denise Fike Designs

Joan Shepp Boutique, 1616 Walnut Street

Saturday October 22, 2011

1pm-5pm

Joan Shepp plays host to artist Denise Fike as she paints a model getting dressed in Joan Shepp’s window. The model will be wearing the collection of Bela Shehu’s NINO brand and sparked with Joan Shepp’s accessories. The life-sized fabric paintings will be the basis of a fashion collaboration between Bela and Denise. King Brit will set the performance on fire with his signature music production. Steve Belkowitz will film the event.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.denisefikedesigns.com

vivianbeer

Vivian Beer – Reception & Artist Talk

Wexler Gallery

201 North 3rd Street

Saturday October 22, 2011

5pm-7:30pm

Wexler Gallery will host an artist talk with innovative furniture designer and metal-smith Vivian Beer. The lecture will coincide with the opening of her solo exhibition of new works at the gallery, which will run October 7th through November 26th, 2011. An artist who sees her process as “sophisticated daydreaming,” Beer creates functional objects that exist between the worlds of design, craft, and sculpture. According to Beer, much of her inspiration comes from objects that are symbolic in contemporary American culture. Her newest body of work meditates on the function and aesthetic of two major cultural symbols: Hot Rods and Lipstick.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.wexlergallery.com

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Making It: Alumni ’01 – ’11 Works Reception

The University of the Arts

Hamilton Hall, Solmssen Court, 320 South Broad Street

Saturday October 22, 2011

5pm-7pm

Reception for the juried exhibition of works by recent alumni of the University of the Arts. Exhibition running October 20-30, 2011.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.uarts.edu

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tommaher

photo by Tom Maher

Tom Maher Photography Reception

2601 Parkway

2601 Pennsylvania Avenue, Lobby

Saturday October 22, 2011

5pm-7pm

Artist’s reception for Tom Maher’s exhibition. Maher creates provocative images that reinterpret the objects of everyday life, and elevate them into something all together different. These images have a sense of the familiar yet feel mysterious. Through careful composition, play of light, shadow, texture and contrast the ordinary becomes anything but. 2601 Parkway presents a collection of large format gelatin silver prints shot on 4 x 5 negatives, archivally processed and selenium toned by Maher. The photographs are mounted on 4-ply white rag board and framed. All works are for sale.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.tommaherphotography.com

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 Urban Topiary

JDT International Inc.

1233B North 3rd Street

Saturday October 22, 2011

4pm-6pm

JDT International Inc. is proud to showcase the completed Urban Topiary by Pre Post, at the Flats at Girard Pointe. Last year, Urban Topiary was unveiled during DesignPhiladelphia 2010 to a tremendous turn-out, and one year later this stunning living sculpture is one-hundred percent complete and growing! Join us to celebrate our most ambitious community initiative to date, as well as to learn about our newest endeavor, American Studios by Interface Studio Architects. Partners include Urban Roots, PrePost, Interface Studio Architects, and InLiquid.

Free and open to the public.

www.flatsatgirardpointe.blogspot.com

Austin+Mergold

Studio Open House

Austin+Mergold

1236 Pine Street

Saturday October 22, 2011

5pm-7pm

Award-winning multi-disciplinary design firm Austin+Mergold welcomes you to stop by their Center City studio. Proponents of “slow design”, A+M practices architecture, landscape, and installation art disciplines – remaining equally committed to the pursuit of making and thinking of design. Be prepared to be “slowly” inspired! Austin+Mergold was the 2010 recipient of New York’s Architectural League Prize and 2011 recipient of the Baer Art Center artist residency.

Free and open to the public.

www.austin-mergold.com

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 Project the Peace

MYX: Multicultural Youth Exchange

Anderson Hall, 333 South Broad Street

Friday October 22, 2011

7pm-10pm

Project the Peace is an outdoor projection installation of socially-conscious images produced by 25 Bartram High School students during a summer 2011 service learning program offered by MYX: Multicultural Youth Exchange. During the six-week program, students explored different acts of intolerance committed against people, animals, and the environment, then collaborated on pro-social images in response. Funded by Philadelphia Youth Network, special thanks to the University of the Arts.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.myxworld.org
Tomorrow make sure to catch Michael Furman’s lecture on the Art of the Automobile and Scissor Candy, the big hair and makeup event.

Check out www.designphiladelphia.org for the full events calendar.

DesignPhiladelphia—Day Nine

21 Oct

Finally Friday! Today brings you an auction, an anniversary, business lessons, and another workshop – plus plenty more. Enjoy!  

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Not A Vacant Lot

313 S. Broad Street
Wednesday October 19, 2011
Daily, October 19 – 23
In the middle of vibrant Center City Philadelphia, just four blocks from City Hall and surrounded by cultural venues, sits a large vacant lot. DesignPhiladelphia – in tandem with The University of the Arts, Independent curator Marianne Bernstein and Penn Design students – will produce Not a Vacant Lot, a 5-day exhibition at 313 South Broad Street incorporating Bernstein’s Play House. In re-imagining its purpose, the space will become a showcase of cutting-edge, temporary programming, cultural offerings and landscape design, studded with live performances changing daily, as well as video showings at night.
Used as little more than a parking lot, the space’s underuse is typical of Philadelphia’s pervasive vacancy problem, adding up to more than 40,000 such empty lots. But due to its prime location, access to transit and neighboring institutions such as the Kimmel Center and Wilma Theater, this lot has unique potential to be reinvented as a major asset to the Avenue of the Arts and Philadelphia as a whole.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
www.designphiladelphia.org

Harold Hambrose

Firsthand Lessons from a CEO: Using a Design Perspective to Understand Your Business

Center for Design + Innovation, Fox School of Business at Temple University

1810 N. 13th Street, Speakman Hall, Suite 209F

Thursday October 21, 2011

8am-4:30pm

Corporate America is increasingly using Design Thinking to discover untapped opportunities for innovation. This unique one-day Executive Education course led by Harold Hambrose, CEO of Electronic Ink, provides a rare opportunity to learn how an international design consultancy is reshaping the way major corporations conduct business. You will be introduced to the design process they utilize to explore solutions and implement change for Fortune 500 companies.

Wheelchair accessible.

Admission: $595.

Limited seating.

RSVP http://design.temple.edu/education

blueredyellow

Red and Yellow Plant Dye Workshop

BLUEREDYELLOW

The Design Center at Philadelphia University

Friday October 21, 2011

10am-1pm

Gain a hands-on understanding of the processes involved in using plant material to create naturally dyed fabrics. Workshop includes lecture and demonstration of using raw plant materials to make madder root red and marigold yellow. Leave workshop with a handkerchief or bracelet.

Wheelchair accessible.

Admission: $5

Space is limited. RSVP info@blueredyellow.com

www.blueredyellow.com

freemansauction

Auction: Photographs and Photobooks

Freeman’s Auctioneers & Appraisers

1st Floor Gallery, 1808 Chestnut Street

Friday October 21, 2011

10am

Get in on the auction action at Freeman’s during the photographs and photobooks auction, featuring works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Harry Callahan, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Alfred Stieglitz and more.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.freemansauction.com

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Revamped Resume

Paper Source

1628 Walnut Street

Friday October 21, 2011

6pm-8pm

Calling all designers and students – looking for unique ideas for making your resume stand out from the rest? This workshop is for you! While not about resume writing, it is about first impressions and finishing touches. We’ll provide several resume design styles paired in Paper Source color palettes. Then we’ll offer tips on embellishing, pairing with presentation envelopes, and CD enclosures for a powerful impact. Other portfolio ideas will be available for inspiration.

Admission: $30, students with ID receive 10% off

www.paper-source.com

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Transforming Dilworth Plaza

The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy

Art Gallery at City Hall, Room 116, East Portal, Market Street Entrance

Friday October 21, 2011

6pm-8pm

The City’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in collaboration with the Center City District, KieranTimberlake and OLIN presents a panel discussion about the project soon to take place in Dilworth Plaza. Exhibition running October 13-November 18, 2011.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.phila.gov/creativephl.org

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MRA Funhouse

Michael Ryan Architects

3935 Netherfield Road, East Falls

Friday October 21, 2011

6pm-9pm

A completed work, a house is the alternative setting for an “Open Studio”. Installations of the firms work are presented throughout: urban proposals; houses: beach and country; settings: stairs, bathrooms, gardens, monograph preview; fabrication footage; under construction; material and color.

Free and open to the public.

www.michaelryanarchitects.com

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* THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Grand Opening

Calderwood Gallery

631 N. Broad Street

Friday October 21, 2011

6pm-9pm

Join us for the grand opening of our new gallery space with our vast inventory of 20th century design.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.calderwoodgallery.com

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30th Anniversary Party

OLC Gallery

152 N. 3rd Street

Friday October 21, 2011

6pm-9pm

Please join us in celebrating our 30th Anniversary. We’ll be presenting thirty important and relevant pieces from our collection in a narrative setting with some available by silent auction. Hors d’oeuvres and cocktails will be served.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.olc152.com

deadanddreaming

Dead and Dreaming Closing Reception

Paradigm Gallery + Studio
2020 South Street
Friday October 21, 2011
6pm-10pm

Dead and Dreaming features the work of 20 artists, each interpreting a different story by H.P. Lovecraft, an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as “weird fiction”. Dead and Dreaming is a collaboration between The Autumn Society of Illustration, The Philadelphia Cartoonist Society and Paradigm Gallery + Studio.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 30th 6-10pm
Second Fridays Open Hours: Friday, October 14th 6-10pm
Gallery Open Hours: Saturdays 12-6pm
Gallery is also open by appointment. Please contact: Jason (267) 266-0073 or Sara Sara@paradigm-gallery.com

www.paradigm-gallery.com

persuaders

Frontline presents “The Persuaders” screening and discussion

AIGA Philadelphia

Connelly Auditorium, 211 S. Broad Street, 8th floor

Friday October 21, 2011

7pm

The Persuaders is a 2004 examination of the world of branding, marketing, advertising, and corporate propaganda. Critic Douglas Rushkoff narrates, offering chilling insight into what he terms “the persuasion industry.” AIGA Philadelphia will lead a discussion following the screening.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.aigaphilly.org

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Philly Works Studio

Check website for location

Friday October 21, 2011

7pm-10pm

Come celebrate and participate in the Philly Works Studio: an experiment connecting designers, makers and craftspeople to develop new work and innovate ideas in Philadelphia. Work in progress and documentation will be on display during DesignPhiladelphia and will culminate in an exhibition in 2012 at The Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Free and open to the public.

www.phillyworks.net

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Project the Peace

MYX: Multicultural Youth Exchange

Anderson Hall, 333 South Broad Street

Friday October 21, 2011

7pm-10pm

Project the Peace is an outdoor projection installation of socially-conscious images produced by 25 Bartram High School students during a summer 2011 service learning program offered by MYX: Multicultural Youth Exchange. During the six-week program, students explored different acts of intolerance committed against people, animals, and the environment, then collaborated on pro-social images in response. Funded by Philadelphia Youth Network, special thanks to the University of the Arts. Also running October 22nd.

Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.

www.myxworld.org

*Just a reminder, the Printer Smash has already happened. It was moved from today to the 15th. Please visit www.thehacktory.org for more info.

Up next: Murals & Meals tour with Gary Steuer and Le Bec Fin’s George Perrier, live window performance at Joan Shepp, and an outdoor projection of Bartram High School student projects. Check out www.designphiladelphia.org for the full events calendar.
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