DEADLINE: February 10, 2010 (Submission)Sponsored by the Environmental Design Research Organization, in collaboration with Places: Design Observer and Metropolis, the Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design. Submissions are accepted in four categories: place research, place planning, place design, and book award. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design. Find more information at http://www.edra.org/
OngoingWonderbrandsA strong visual identity is the key to presenting your brand successfully. Once again, Metropolis will gather design professionals to discuss the ever-evolving secrets to the language of branding. Is architecture is becoming the next Wonderbrand? Stay tuned for details…
February 13, 2010—August 15, 2010National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
From Great Diamond Island, Maine, to Boston’s Beacon Street, and from cottages on Cape Cod to mansions in Newport, the houses featured in this exhibition remind us that the architecture of New England is a touchstone of American architecture. Drawing Toward Home features 100 drawings from renowned architectural offices such as McKim, Mead & White, Peabody & Stearns, and Little & Browne, among others. The illustrations span two centuries and depict changing styles and design trends. http://www.nbm.org
Through February 20, 2010Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
This is the first American exhibition to investigate the sustainable practices of American fashion designers, many of whom are based in New York City. The exhibition is organized around three main themes: Reduce, Revalue and Rethink, expanding
on the traditional ecological mantra Reduce,Reuse, Recycle by acknowledging the importance of aesthetics within fashion design. http://www.pratt.edu/exhibitions
May 14, 2010—July 31, 2010Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
Showcasing Saraceno’s installations, sculptures, and photographs made since 2003, the touring exhibition is the artist’s first large-scale museum presentation in the United States. By reexamining the conventions of art and architecture, Saraceno suggests imaginative solutions to complex questions about how we populate and coexist in the world. His architectural proposals use the interdependencies of systems to ponder ecological questions that go beyond the natural world. http://www.class.uh.edu/blaffer/exhibit_tomas_saraceno.html
Through May 31, 2010Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Over the past two decades, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle has gained international recognition for a diverse, conceptually rigorous body of work-both activist-inspired public art and studio-based objects-that consist of formally arresting, often technically complex, poetic meditations on aesthetics, nature, and modernity. http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/Manglano-Ovalle
February 12, 2010—April 4, 2010Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford presents a solo exhibition of his works on paper. Each piece was created from community-oriented billboards, signs, and advertising posters removed from fences in the artist’s neighborhood. His densely layered, large-scale paper collage and décollage works are canny abstractions, layered with paint, twine, and glue, their surfaces worked and reworked with subtractive processes like sanding. Within the process of creating them, Bradford becomes builder, archaeologist, and cartographer filtering the visual manifestations of migrant communities and merchants. http://www.aspenartmuseum.org
Through March 26, 2010The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
The MAK is pleased to announce How Many Billboards? Art In Stead. This large-scale urban exhibition debuts new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles.
Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California’s conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard, interpreting its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as both an idea and media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s. For more information, please visit http://howmanybillboards.org February 17, 2010—June 6, 2010Design Museum, London, England
Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards have become established as leading design awards showcasing the innovative designs from around the world. Last year’s winner, the unofficial Barack Obama poster campaign by Shepard Fairey, demonstrated the power that design can have even from grass-root level. Which design will triumph in 2010? The new 100 strong shortlist will be on display in the exhibition, many for the first time. http://designmuseum.org; http://www.designsoftheyear.com
DEADLINE: February 10, 2010 (Submission)Sponsored by the Environmental Design Research Organization, in collaboration with Places: Design Observer and Metropolis, the Great Places Awards recognize professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design. Submissions are accepted in four categories: place research, place planning, place design, and book award. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design. Find more information at http://www.edra.org/
DEADLINE: January 22, 2010 (Registration)DEADLINE: February 12, 2010 (Submission)Designers and companies are once again called upon to enter the global comparison and submit their products to the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2010. Renowned design experts from all around the world will examine the products in a direct comparison on site, and only the best will be awarded the “red dot,” the internationally recognised quality seal for design. http://www.red-dot.de/registration
March 11, 2010—March 12, 2010 Syracuse, NY
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry partners with the U.S. Green Building Council, New York Upstate Chapter, to host the annual Green Building conference. The conference mission is to promote, educate, and support green building, design, construction, and processes.
http://www.esf.edu/greenbuilding/
March 24, 2010—March 26, 2010Vancouver Convention Center, Canada
Every two years, over 10,000 professionals from 70+ countries come together at GLOBE for three days of sessions presented by world-renowned sustainability experts. The conference works to survey leading-edge environmental innovations and participate in unparalleled global networking opportunities. Topics
explore environmental goals such as corporate sustainability, climate change, carbon management, clean energy, sustainable finance, and greener cities. Special subthemes for GLOBE 2010 include: clean technology, water, a spolight on retail, and Auto FutureTech.
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