Createadelphia
CampusPhilly
The Market + Shops at the Comcast Center
Monday October 17, 2011
4pm-6pm
Createadelphia is a job fair and professional development event for Philadelphia college students & recent graduates interested in all fields of design. This event is a terrific opportunity to meet employers and experts in graphic arts, fashion, entertainment, environmental and museum design. Createadelphia is presented by Campus Philly, a nonprofit organization that fuels economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live and work in the Greater Philadelphia tri-state region. For more information, contact Ashlie@campusphilly.org
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Open House
Daroff Design
2121 Market Street
Monday October 17, 2011
5pm-8pm
Daroff Design invites you to join us for an open house at our studio. Enjoy light refreshments and a peek at the design for our three new hospitality projects in China, as well as our work at the Philadelphia Airport. Karen Daroff and other senior designers will be on hand to discuss our current and past projects and our signature approach to design.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Special Report, 50th Anniversary of Nylon, April 1988. Chemical Heritage Foundation Collections
Mad Men Chic: Molecules on Madison Avenue
Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street
Monday October 17, 2011
6pm-7pm
Join award-winning design historian Regina Lee Blaszczyk to explore the little-known relationship between chemistry and interior design in the Mad Men era. A dynamic lecturer, Blaszczyk shows how new materials created by the chemical industry in Philadelphia – dyes, vinyl, and synthetic fibers – enabled modern designers to create the chic look of the sixties popularized by Madison Ave. Mad Men attire is optional. Visit CHF’s Making Modernity exhibit before the lecture.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Register at http://www.chemheritage.org
photo courtesy of MIO
MIO Measures: Creating Smart Design for the Planet
Presentation by Jaime Salm
DuPont™Corian® Dialogues on Design
Center For Architecture, 1218 Arch Street
Monday October 17, 2011
6pm
Jaime Salm, MIO’s Creative Director, will share his journey in building a nationally-recognized design practice that defines best practices in sustainability.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
Innovative Architects: The Designer’s Role in the Energy Efficient Retrofit
Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster
The Friend’s Center, 1515 Cherry Street
Monday October 17, 2011
6pm
Innovative Architects: The Designer’s Role in the Energy Efficient Retrofit will be a curated presentation and moderated panel exploring trends in architectural practice and how that impacts energy efficient retrofit design process and outcomes.
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
The Arts Allied, Handmaidens All to a Higher Design
Alvin Holm AIA Architects
2016 Sansom Street
Monday October 17, 2011
6pm-7:30pm
The Institute for Classical Architecture and Art seeks to re-integrate the traditional arts, now widely separated, to share in a common enterprise creating the New American Renaissance. Among the growing number of architectural practices that share this vision is Alvin Holm Architects. We invite you to visit our studio where bronze sculpture will be on display by Ward Tomlinson Elicker, as well as models and drawings of projects where Holm and Elicker have collaborated. Elicker is a PAFA graduate working in the classical figurative tradition. Holm (M. Arch Penn ’62) is one of the founders of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and who teaches and practices traditional Architecture.
Free and open to the public.
Up next: lectures, open studios, and film screenings.
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