January 2010
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Watchon january 14th, 2010, massimo vignelli made a speech about his role as a designer and his relationship with alan heller of heller - furniture design company. the design meetup organized by designer pages and hosted at the heller showroom in new york city, also featured designer, zachary feltoon of davidzachary.
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see pictures from event
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field trip - abstract painter, wassily kandinsky...
i finally had the opportunity to visit the guggenheim restrospective on russian painter, wassily kandinsky. he was born in 1866, studied law and economics, decided to make a career as a painter at the age of thirty, taught at the bauhaus, lived through three wars and died in 1944. he is credited with producing the first abstract paintings in 1908, ie Autumn Landscape with Boats, below.
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field trip - morphosis' cooper union building...
the new cooper union building on 7th street and bowery has been well documented in the new york architecture scene since its opening in the summer of 2009. the structure was granted leed-platinum status because of its green design initiatives such as 75% natural lighting, which reduces electrical costs. in addition, there is a high-tech hvac system which uses servo-mechanics to automatically open...
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“since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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notes: diller scofidio + renfro architects
charles renfro of the new york firm diller scofidio + renfro gave a presentation at a dinner party at the guggenheim in early 2008. the event was a fundraiser in support of brown university’s first “art collection” or rather… aspirations to accumulate one. the dinner was held in the main atrium space where the uber-anitmated renfro eagarly described plans to build a...
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