Industrial Design

Join The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed objects for a lecture by Italian designer Martino Gamper.

Martino Gamper’s practice engages in a variety
of projects from exhibition design, interior design,
commissions, and mass-produced products for the
cutting edge of the international furniture industry.
He is a recipient of the Moroso Award for Contemporary
Art (2011) and the Brit Insurance Designs
of the Year Award, Furniture Category, (2008).

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Gentner Showroom open house

http://gentnerdesign.com/

In honor of the holiday season, Manifold is hosting ACCESSIBLES, a show and sale of exclusively affordable work by local designers and artists, including: Barry Newstat Furniture, Bridgette Buckley Studio, Ethan Rose, GlickBuilt, Karma Neutral Ceramics, Manifold, Merkled Studio, Relevant ReUse, Starshaped Press, Stephanie Cobb, Strand Design, Studio 1a.m., and Winter Session.
This is a special opportunity to access work from designers and gallery artists who, in many cases, do not focus their professional practice on designing inexpensive items. This sale's unique collection includes wood-fired vessels, audible wall art, candleholders, letterpress prints, hand-turned ornaments, jewelry, dining table decor, and more!

PechaKucha Chicago style is this week - Tuesday December 4th (doors at 6pm, place is hopping by 7:30, and we'll start at 8:20)
What do the winners of the Prentice Future Competition, the managing editor of the Chciago Tribune and a red-headed rock n roll band have in common?
For one, they are all presenters at PechaKucha Night Chicago Volume 24 on Tuesday evening.
If you haven't been to PK in a while, it's time to get back in the habit and join iconic Chicago designer Jordan Mozer, Chicago's loudest band White Mystery, Roche Scholarship recipient Anne Dudek, Tribune Managing Editor Jane Hirt, art and design advocate Tess Landon, young architects Wallo Villacorta and Cyril Marsollier, Dose Market’s April Francis, brand innovator Tom Marquardt, molder of minds Sandi Dumich and 2014 AIA Chicago Board member Juan Moreno.

No snow yet, but if it's the first December in Chicago then at least there's a guaranteed PechaKucha Night. Loads of fun and festivity for all family members (over the age of 21).
Our presenters are ready to chit-chat for 400 seconds while you guzzle egg nog and snuggle round the open fire (aka Martyrs' stage).

It'll be so much fun, and you'll certainly learn something you didn't know before.
Come and open your presents early at Martyrs' - Tuesday, December 4th at 8pm (but get there a bit early for conversation and libations).

Martyrs'
3855 N Lincoln Avenue, Chicago
Tickets at http://www.martyrslive.com

Links to presenters at http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/chicago/24

Please join us to celebrate our 15 year anniversary and enjoy the holiday season with a champagne toast.

Alexander Williams, 1/3 of the contemporary American design brand, RICH BRILLIANT WILLING, will impart that advice on our next generation of Chicago designers, speaking at both UIC and Columbia College about the merit of diving head-first into a design problem.

HAUTE LIVING is thrilled to work with both schools and their respective IDSA chapters to add Alex's words to Chicago's design conversation.

HAUTE LIVING will host a special showroom event to welcome Rich Brilliant Willing next Thursday, November 29th, from 6-8pm, at 222 W Kinzie St. Alexander Williams, designer and founder of RBW, will be here to meet the Chicago design community and to show select pieces from RBW’sunique and intelligent collection.

ABOUT RICH BRILLIANT WILLING
Founded in 2007 by fellow Rhode Island School of Design graduates Theo Richardson, Charles Brill and Alexander Williams, Rich Brilliant Willing is an American design brand focused on producing unique contemporary lighting and furniture. The Rich Brilliant Willing CV includes being listed as one of the “Top 40” designers of 2007 by I.D. Magazine, receiving the 2011 ‘Best New Designer’ award at New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair, and being listed among Forbes’ “Top 30 under 30” for 2012. RBW’s range of work includes exhibits at Chicago’s famed Volume Gallery, contract collaborations with Artecnica, Areaware and Urban Outfitters, supporting their American Design Club project, and giving talks on the struggles and successes of starting an independent design business.

Rich Brilliant Willing was founded in 2007 by fellow RISD graduates Theo Richardson, Charles Brill, and Alexander Williams. That same year RBW was named among the "Top 40" designers by I.D. magazine. Recent honors include the 2011 International Contemporary Furniture Fair 'Best New Designer' award and Forbes Magazine’s "30 under 30" working in Art & Design.

Rich Brilliant Willing is a contemporary lighting and furniture design manufacturer. From their Manhattan studio workshop, RBW’s creative team oversees every aspect of their unique process from design to assembly to distribution. The results are intelligent and iconic; simple yet expressive products that bring out the very best in new living and work environments.

RSVP
IDSA members will have preference for open spots, sign up by emailing
uicidsa@gmail.com

As part of the in-gallery conversation series centered on the exhibition Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, this talk explores how the Bouroullecs’ work abounds with carefully chosen colors, high quality finishes, textural surfaces, and material used in honest and direct ways. Designers Stephanie and Bruce Tharp investigate the Bouroullecs’ use of color and materials and their effects upon the interior spaces their objects inhabit.

Stephanie and Bruce Tharp are award-winning, Chicago-based product designers and educators. Their practice includes licensing furniture, furnishings, and consumer product ideas to companies like Ligne Roset, Moet-Hennessy, Crate&Barrel, Kikkerland, and Design Ideas. They also self-produce their own commercial designs, as well as create critical, non-commercial work.

Stephanie is an engineering graduate of the University of Michigan and a MID graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Bruce has an engineering degree from Bucknell University, a MID from Pratt Institute, and a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. Stephanie and Bruce are both tenured professors in the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Stephanie is the Program Chair of Industrial Design where she teaches graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars. Bruce is the Director of Graduate Studies and teaches design studios, design research, and design entrepreneurship. They have lectured, exhibited, and published internationally.

As part of the in-gallery conversation series centered on the exhibition Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, this talk looks at how the Bouroullecs’ designs have the effect of demarcating space in open and flexible ways. Their objects create rooms within rooms (what the designers term “Micro-architectures”), using movable walls, changes of scale, and focal points for habitation. Designer Morlen Sinoway explores how the Bouroullecs use objects to delineate space, challenging conventions of interior layout.

Morlen Sinoway was born and raised in Chicago. His studies in sculpture, drawing, and ceramics from The School of the Art Institute (1975) provided a foundation for his utilitarian direction, which he later translated into a unique blend of reduced simplicity and basic materials creating a visually enticing style of custom furniture. Sinoway’s art and furniture have exhibited in prestigious shows and venues, including The Art Institute of Chicago and The Salone De Mobile in Milan.

In 1990, he started a multi-disciplined design studio, under his own name—Morlen Sinoway Atelier. The Atelier is well known for actively supporting the independent design scene in Chicago, and also for bringing some of the worlds most renowned furniture brands to the Midwest. In 2005, Sinoway developed a way to support Chicago’s Independent Design community with a low-cost design event he named, “The Guerrilla Truck Show.” Held during NeoCon every year, on the dock-height sidewalks outside his Atelier, the event serves as a platform for creatives of all types to showcase their work in a temporary gallery space within the back of a moving truck. Over the years, the event has blossomed from 13 trucks up to 60 trucks, with more than 6,000 guests in attendance in 2012.

Sinoway is continually featured in numerous magazines (including Details, Lucky, and Interior Design), newspapers, and book publications for his insights, The Guerrilla Truck Show, and his Atelier. Sinoway also was an Adjunct at Harrington College of Design, teaching Experimental Furniture Design from 2004–2010. In addition, he still routinely participates in critique for the School of The Art Institute’s Architecture, Interior architecture, and Designed Object department.