Don’t miss Monday’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Jenny Price.
Price is a writer, Los Angeles Urban Ranger and research scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, Price has written for GOOD, Sunset, Audubon, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
Big Picture Lecture Series:
Jenny Price
Monday, March 8, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
If you’re a graphic designer, you’ve heard of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).
A professional association for design founded in 1914, AIGA’s mission, according to its website, is “to advance designing as a special craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.”
Not surprisingly, Art Center has a student group affiliated with the association—ACCD/AIGA. We recently caught up with the group’s president, seventh-term Graphic Design student Amelia Stier, to get the lowdown.
Don’t miss tonight’s opening of DreamWorlds in the Williamson Gallery. The exhibit, a behind-the-scenes look at the artistry and imagination of animated filmmaking at DreamWorks Animation, opens tonight with a multimedia presentation, panel discussion and reception. The presentation and panel will be held at Ahmanson Auditorium at 7 pm, followed by a reception in the Williamson Gallery at 8 pm.
Drawing from popular DreamWorks Animation films such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, Monsters vs. Aliens, Bee Movie, Prince of Egypt and the soon-to-be-released How To Train Your Dragon (scheduled for theatrical release March 26), the more than 300 objects in the exhibition include original and digital designs and paintings, movie posters, character maquettes, miniature sets, an artist’s workstation re-creation and other creative stages of the complex filmmaking process.
Film Department Chair Ross LaManna will moderate tonight’s panel discussion, which will revolve around the connection between art, illustration, story and animation. Panelists include:
DreamWorlds runs through May 9. The Williamson Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday from 12 noon to 5 p.m. with extended hours on Friday evenings to 9 p.m.
(Image is from the Williamson Gallery’s Facebook page)
Need some new art? Looking for something fun to do Saturday night? You’re in luck. Saturday night is the South Campus Gallery Salon, featuring the work of photography alum Orly Olivier. A portion of all sales will be donated to the Art Center student scholarship fund. The salon will be hosted by Archetype Press and Art Center professors Leah Toby Hoffmitz and Gloria Kondrup. Don’t miss it!
South Campus Gallery Salon: “Please Don’t Feed the Models”
Saturday, March 6, 6-9 pm
South Campus Gallery
Did you happen to notice a caravan of Citroëns making their way through Pasadena to Hillside Campus last Saturday? It was the SoCal Citroën Club, who enjoyed a campus tour led by Transportation Design Chair Stewart Reed.
From Clunkbucket: “There were more Citroëns than drivers on a Saturday morning. The task at hand was a good one. Settle into the plush appointments behind the steering wheel of a 1969 and-one-half Citroën iD21F Safari Wagon and drive.”
Read more about the outing and see great photos of the event at Clunkbucket.
Design superstar Margo Chase will speak on campus tomorrow night. Known for her smart, stylish and successful identity development and custom typography for Target, Starbucks, Prince, Madonna, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, she will share valuable tips for surviving and thriving in the design field.
Margo Chase: Make Change
Thursday, March 4, 7-8:30 pm
Los Angeles Times Media Center
Hillside Campus
Images for Human Rights: Student Voices, a provocative exhibition exploring perspectives of Art Center students on the issues of freedom and human rights, is on display at the Skirball Cultural Center through Sunday. The exhibition features more than a dozen large-scale, illustrated posters created by Art Center students as part of a Designmatters project. A panel discussion featuring students, curators and special guests will be held tomorrow, March 3, from 3 to 8 pm at the Skirball. For more information, call 626.396.2310.
Read our previous post about the project here.
Product Design alumnus Yves Béhar unveiled design plans for a “hackable” solar-powered electric car at last week’s Greener Gadgets conference in NYC. The affordable car will have a standard base frame, with user-customizable components. While Béhar and his design studio Fuse Project are not new to transportation design, this project covers new ground for the studio: it’s designed for the developing world. Read more about this interesting project at Inhabitat.
UK design firm Priestmangoode has issued the first in a series of manifestos exploring how design thinking could improve products and services. Their inaugural piece is, timely enough, dedicated to health care.
Dezeen reports: “One of the ideas is the Recovery Lounge, a ward where people can recover from minor operations … that borrows ideas from the hotel and airline industries.”
Read more at Dezeen.com and check out a PDF of The Health Manifesto here.
Don’t miss today’s Big Picture Lecture Series featuring Steve Quartz.
Quartz is an associate professor of humanities and social sciences at Caltech and directs the Brain, Mind and Society PhD program. His research centers on how new methods in brain science can be integrated into the humanities and social sciences.
Big Picture Lecture Series: Steve Quartz
Monday, March 1, 1 pm
Ahmanson Auditorium