Remember how I was planning to blog for every day of Artprize and just…didn’t?Yeah, that happened. I feel bad about letting people down with that whole project, and I feel bad about the irregularity that’s been happening on the blog since June.It followed a sort of cycle, where I would have a topic that I …
It’s Friday, and that means that it’s time for some links to things that I love (or have strong feelings about) from the internet! Minimally Minimal talked to Dieter Rams. Is this pretty fantastic? Yes. Would that be the coolest thing? Yes. If you were wondering how Transformers are made, now you know. I want …
The biggest gathering at Kendall College of Art and Design is Halloween. There’s a costume contest, there’s food, everyone comes to it. On most other days of the year, the school is empty. The dialogue and personality class at Kendall College of Art and Design is solving community and student life issues the same way …
Start Garden is the Rick DeVos – powered venture capital fund in Grand Rapids. Instead of going the traditional investing route of picking a few business ideas and hoping that they are profitable, Start Garden is investing small amounts in a greater number of businesses, and offering guidance and further investments down the road. Every …
I went to Kendall’s fashion show, Bodies of Art, on Friday. It was fantastic. Everything was made out of paper, which made it even more impressive. I’m amazed at the things everyone created out of just paper. Congratulations to everyone involved, you’ve all done so well.
Design is all about process, and that’s especially true of large, long-term projects. This semester, I’m taking Collaborative Projects, and we’re working with the Grand Rapids Public Museum to create a traveling exhibit. The first step in the our process was research. On the first day of class, we went to the Van Andel Museum …
On Friday night, Bodies of Art held a preview for their upcoming show, Works On Paper. Works On Paper will be at the Goei Center (818 Butterworth) on Friday, March 1. At the preview, I had the chance to talk to Corinne Hoen, a designer. Her piece wasn’t finished yet, but she described it as …
Graphic Design: Now in Production opened at Kendall and the GRAM on Thursday night. I went to both portions of the exhibit, and it’s pretty fantastic. If you have even a mild interest in Graphic Design, it’s worth a visit. It was curated in collaboration with the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design …
Source The Federal Building at Kendall has recently been certifed to the USGBC’s LEED Gold Level. This is fantastic for the school and for the whole of downtown Grand Rapids, particularly because of the adaptive reuse process applied to the historic Federal Building. The building served as a courthouse in it’s previous life, and will …
This past Thursday, Syd Mead visited Kendall College of Art and Design to give a talk about his exhibit, Progressions, currently on exhibition at the Kendall gallery. The exhibit features a range of Mead’s work throughout his career as a visual futurist and concept artist. The term that he uses to describe his …