Finally Friday! Today brings you an auction, an anniversary, business lessons, and another workshop – plus plenty more. Enjoy!
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.
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
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
http://www.blueredyellow.com
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.
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
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.
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.
* 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
*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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