i'm pleased as punch to see the article that the lovely lisa smith wrote about the american design clubs that have popped up recently. such an amazingly written article, i can't begin to paraphrase. please check it out in it's entirety here.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
american design article (&JOIN) on core77
the american design club, object design league & JOIN design seattle in core77 article.
i'm pleased as punch to see the article that the lovely lisa smith wrote about the american design clubs that have popped up recently. such an amazingly written article, i can't begin to paraphrase. please check it out in it's entirety here.
i'm pleased as punch to see the article that the lovely lisa smith wrote about the american design clubs that have popped up recently. such an amazingly written article, i can't begin to paraphrase. please check it out in it's entirety here.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Summer Studio Sale @ Studio Piano Nobile
Summer Sale
Studio Piano Nobile
908 NW 50th Street
(in Ballard btwn 10th & 11th ave)
Seattle, WA 98107
Fri July 17 & Sat July 18 11 am - 6 pm
Studio Piano Nobile
908 NW 50th Street
(in Ballard btwn 10th & 11th ave)
Seattle, WA 98107
Fri July 17 & Sat July 18 11 am - 6 pm
The summer sale is a gorgeous group of local designers who will be showing jewelry, home goods, and accessories. The sale is taking place during the weeklong shopping event, City Stimulus, which promotes Seattle's innovative small businesses, shops, and restaurants. Visitors to Piano Nobile can do more than just shop local, though -- they can meet the gifted local designers and artists whose work is on display!
CHIKABIRD/randl wallets and notebooks (including a few featuring piano nobile fabric!)(not pictured but oh so very exciting!!)
DAO JEWELRY/handmade silver jewelry
HEATHER DAVIDSON JEWELRY/hand-drawn jewelry
IACOLI & MCALLISTER/jewelry and home goods
NOMURA/hand-printed recylced garments and fine jewelry
LIT/couture silk shades featuring piano nobile fabric!
PIANO NOBILE PRINTSHOP/hand-printed textiles, accessories, and home goods
ctrl+alt+design press
HURRY!! This weekend is your last chance to see the show before it comes down on Monday July 13th!
here's a nice little article about the show on seattle magazine:
coolhunting posted a nice little write-up on JOIN and Ctrl+Alt+Design:
click here for the full post.
ctrl+alt+design also made it onto the core77 event listing:
click here for post.
laura cassidy of seattle metropolitan magazine wrote a nice article promoting the show.
click here for the full post.
here's a nice little article about the show on seattle magazine:
coolhunting posted a nice little write-up on JOIN and Ctrl+Alt+Design:
click here for the full post.ctrl+alt+design also made it onto the core77 event listing:
click here for post.
laura cassidy of seattle metropolitan magazine wrote a nice article promoting the show.
click here for the full post.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Take a Closer Look at What's Around....Even If It's Costco
When was the last time you stopped to appreciate the most mundane parts of where you live?
Have you ever hike along the woods off the highway?
Can fences be used to connect instead of divide?
These are a few of the questions brought up in a lecture Jean and I attended tonight by urban planner Thomas Sieverts and put on by Portland-based Suddenly.org.
Thomas's theory is that we need to come to terms with the already established sprawl of our urban environments and recognize the inherent charm and potential in the in-between state of being it creates. His suggestion is that we begin to shape our culture in a way that appreciates and enhances interactions of people with their location.
-How can we make the best out of the situation and be better aware of and enjoy the places we live?
-Can spaces between buildings become spots for gardens or for people to mingle?
-Can big commercial businesses use the parking lots to house community events like flea markets, fairs, or skateboard competitions?
Thomas posed these questions and more through a narrative photo tour through a Tigard, OR, an apparent suburban wasteland (similar to Burien, WA) of big box stores, fast food, and lower-middle class residences. The photos highlighted the hidden beauty of forests situated between strip malls, spaces between buildings, unofficial walkways, and well-intentioned. Some were beautiful examples spontaneous human resourcefulness others audacious attempts to insert "beauty" in an altogether bland location (think trimmed hedges in parking lots...what's the point?). All were scenes you could witness if you'd just notice it or take a thoughtful walk around a neighborhood near you....or keep it simple and get your ass out of the car. :D
Billboard on I-5 between Seattle and Portland. It's always changing with some ridiculous messages on it. I love reading it every time we go by.
Playful signs on a roundabout by Hiawatha neighborhood off of S Rainer Ave in Seattle.
The point behind it all is that there's a natural desire to express human needs no matter the location and that we all need to recognize them and demand them, but it's also what we choose to see and appreciate what's around us.
Will there come a time where living in an abandoned strip mall or Costco building is just as desirable as livinging in industrial warehouses?
This whole lecture has opened up so many design potentials on this subject, and our heads are spinning with ideas for Brite!!...... oh boy!
Today July 2nd: Continuing event with Thomas Sieverts : there will be an organized walking tour in Burien neighborhood to practice this exact philosophy we described and explore what's around there. When's the last time you decided to stop and walk around Burien?? We can't say that we have....But we will tomorrow!
Have you ever hike along the woods off the highway?
Can fences be used to connect instead of divide?
These are a few of the questions brought up in a lecture Jean and I attended tonight by urban planner Thomas Sieverts and put on by Portland-based Suddenly.org.Thomas's theory is that we need to come to terms with the already established sprawl of our urban environments and recognize the inherent charm and potential in the in-between state of being it creates. His suggestion is that we begin to shape our culture in a way that appreciates and enhances interactions of people with their location.
-How can we make the best out of the situation and be better aware of and enjoy the places we live?
-Can spaces between buildings become spots for gardens or for people to mingle?
-Can big commercial businesses use the parking lots to house community events like flea markets, fairs, or skateboard competitions?
Thomas posed these questions and more through a narrative photo tour through a Tigard, OR, an apparent suburban wasteland (similar to Burien, WA) of big box stores, fast food, and lower-middle class residences. The photos highlighted the hidden beauty of forests situated between strip malls, spaces between buildings, unofficial walkways, and well-intentioned. Some were beautiful examples spontaneous human resourcefulness others audacious attempts to insert "beauty" in an altogether bland location (think trimmed hedges in parking lots...what's the point?). All were scenes you could witness if you'd just notice it or take a thoughtful walk around a neighborhood near you....or keep it simple and get your ass out of the car. :D
Billboard on I-5 between Seattle and Portland. It's always changing with some ridiculous messages on it. I love reading it every time we go by.
Playful signs on a roundabout by Hiawatha neighborhood off of S Rainer Ave in Seattle. The point behind it all is that there's a natural desire to express human needs no matter the location and that we all need to recognize them and demand them, but it's also what we choose to see and appreciate what's around us.
Will there come a time where living in an abandoned strip mall or Costco building is just as desirable as livinging in industrial warehouses?
This whole lecture has opened up so many design potentials on this subject, and our heads are spinning with ideas for Brite!!...... oh boy!Today July 2nd: Continuing event with Thomas Sieverts : there will be an organized walking tour in Burien neighborhood to practice this exact philosophy we described and explore what's around there. When's the last time you decided to stop and walk around Burien?? We can't say that we have....But we will tomorrow!
4:00 pm Burien through Community Eyes: Walk the city of Burien with Thomas Sieverts and artist, Boris Sieverts. (Gather at B/IAS 5th Ave SW & SW 150th St., Burien.) Free and open to the public.
6:00 pm Conversation and Nosh with Thomas Sieverts and Boris Sieverts, Burien political and civic leaders, neighbors, friends, and an interested public (at B/IAS, 5th Ave SW & SW 150th St., Burien; food and drink from Mark & Sal’s Deli). Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Events: Urban Planning with Sieverts
There's a series of really interesting events happening in Seattle this week from July 1st-3rd concerning the idea of urban planning specifically in Seattle and Burien. Occasioned by Thomas Sieverts, there will be discussions, film showings, and exhibits surrounding this topic.Suddenly Presents: Seattle and Burien, July 1-3, 2009
Our cities surprise and confound us by scrambling the categories we
use to plan and understand them. At once dense and sprawling, crowded
and empty, urban but centerless, dynamic and stalled, the landscape
where we live defies planning and leaves us with little grasp of its
meanings or pleasures. Yet it is the product of our choices,
individually and as a public: we live here now. So, what can we make
of it? Suddenly will bring art and food and public conversation to
bear on the common cause of making meaning and life in the landscape
where we live now — as it is, as we are, as best we can.
We're thinking of checking these events below:
Wednesday July 1
7:30 pm “Urban Aesthetics,” lecture by Thomas Sieverts (at Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle, $5 suggested donation)
Friday July 3: (if you can splurge...this dinner sounds really amazing)
Corridor Project closing dinner at 6pm hosted by Michael Hebb,with Matthew Stadler and Thomas Sieverts in conversation, including a celebration of “suddenly: where we live now, the visual chronicle;” (see www.onepot.org for details). It's $40 for the dinner
The documentation of the Corridor Project IIII: Habitat: will be on display. The opening of the Exhibition is open to the public and begins at 9pm in Occidental Plaza in Pioneer Square.Corridor Project IIII is an exploration of the wilderness and landscape of the Interstate 5. Michael Hebb, Hannes Wingate and Michael McManus discovers what it means to live, eat, and create a habitat for 3 days in one of the freeways generous median areas. (crazy!!)
Monday, June 22, 2009
Ctrl+Alt+DESIGN Recap
So Finally! Went through all the photos we took...all 200+ of them! Phew!!
You can see the crowd and the space at Ouch My Eye. The sun lit room made the space look even more amazing. Here's all the designs that were at the show. Remember, the show will be up through July, 12th, and the gallery will also be open late for First Thursday Art Walk on July 2nd.
Above: Graypants , Grain, Elisa Werbler
Above: Frame Lamp by Iacoli & McAllister, Paper Flower Shade by Lit, Peep Show Shade by Andrea Claire, Scrap by Graypants, Porcailine shade by Heath Bultman.
Above: Pedestals by Iacoli & McAllister, Ceramic Cans by Jason Neufeld, Doily Clock by Stanley Ruiz, Hookup by Fruitsuper Design, "Pour"by Elisa Werbler, Recycled leather sculpture by Submaterial. 
Necklaces by Stanly Ruiz, Wood & Corian rings by Iacoli & McAllister, Cryon Rings by Timothy Liles, Cinder Block necklace by Kiel Mead.
Hairpiece, and mirror necklaces by FortyFive-09.
Above are some of the figures I made for the Chalk-It-To-Me Series along with the Buddha figure and Piggy Bank. I provided bunch of various colored chalk and people went crazy on all the Chalk-It-To-Me figures. It was fun to see the progression of what people drew as the night went on. As you can see that what used to be the handsome black panther got turned into a drag queen panther.... Good times. :D
I especially enjoyed the art installations and art work by (knee shy). They have a wonderfully analytical, but humorous way of commenting about the audacity of our everyday behaviors and interactions. They didn't begin working on their piece until arriving in Seattle allowing their journey here to inspire them to document a movement of their own creation: O.N.W.A.R.D: Our Nation Want Airport Re-Design. Their installed piece mocked humanity's futile efforts to improve airports by adding things like bad art and crappy shopping to our air travel experiences. Pretty funny stuff.
Brite Collective has a section in the show with all the Brite Lites are displayed. It was fun to see them again in the gallery context and I think it got a lot of people curious and interested in it! Become a Brite Collective facebook fan and get all our updates plus other design-related Seattle happenings!
More of Tricia's Bread Friend Map. It was even more impressive to see the bread board that she had someone custom made for her. I love all the adorable playful doodles that people did through out the map, too!
There's seriously too many photos! You can see MORE on our Flickr!
You can see the crowd and the space at Ouch My Eye. The sun lit room made the space look even more amazing. Here's all the designs that were at the show. Remember, the show will be up through July, 12th, and the gallery will also be open late for First Thursday Art Walk on July 2nd.
Above: Graypants , Grain, Elisa Werbler
Above: Frame Lamp by Iacoli & McAllister, Paper Flower Shade by Lit, Peep Show Shade by Andrea Claire, Scrap by Graypants, Porcailine shade by Heath Bultman.
Above: Pedestals by Iacoli & McAllister, Ceramic Cans by Jason Neufeld, Doily Clock by Stanley Ruiz, Hookup by Fruitsuper Design, "Pour"by Elisa Werbler, Recycled leather sculpture by Submaterial. 
Necklaces by Stanly Ruiz, Wood & Corian rings by Iacoli & McAllister, Cryon Rings by Timothy Liles, Cinder Block necklace by Kiel Mead.
Hairpiece, and mirror necklaces by FortyFive-09.
Above are some of the figures I made for the Chalk-It-To-Me Series along with the Buddha figure and Piggy Bank. I provided bunch of various colored chalk and people went crazy on all the Chalk-It-To-Me figures. It was fun to see the progression of what people drew as the night went on. As you can see that what used to be the handsome black panther got turned into a drag queen panther.... Good times. :D
I especially enjoyed the art installations and art work by (knee shy). They have a wonderfully analytical, but humorous way of commenting about the audacity of our everyday behaviors and interactions. They didn't begin working on their piece until arriving in Seattle allowing their journey here to inspire them to document a movement of their own creation: O.N.W.A.R.D: Our Nation Want Airport Re-Design. Their installed piece mocked humanity's futile efforts to improve airports by adding things like bad art and crappy shopping to our air travel experiences. Pretty funny stuff.
Brite Collective has a section in the show with all the Brite Lites are displayed. It was fun to see them again in the gallery context and I think it got a lot of people curious and interested in it! Become a Brite Collective facebook fan and get all our updates plus other design-related Seattle happenings!
More of Tricia's Bread Friend Map. It was even more impressive to see the bread board that she had someone custom made for her. I love all the adorable playful doodles that people did through out the map, too!
There's seriously too many photos! You can see MORE on our Flickr!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
piano nobile open studio 6/20
SUMMER OPEN STUDIO
Saturday June 20th 4-8pm
*Grow/Draw: New Paintings by Isabelle Grizzard Robertson*
*The Positivity Project*
A collaboration between dao jewelry and the Piano Nobile Printshop.
*Semaphore*
The first collection of furniture, lighting, and textiles from Piano Nobile Home made its debut in May. A selection of tables and lamps will be on display.
*Farmhouse Modern*
Chadhaus introduces the newest piece in the celebrated Farmhouse Modern collection: a dining table made entirely from recycled or salvaged materials, including some gorgeous straight-grain fir.
*Live Music!*
Summer Open Studio will spill from the gallery into the front drive, where musician and author Steve Treseler and company will perform.
more information on the studio piano nobile website.
Saturday June 20th 4-8pm
Studio Piano Nobile
908 NW 50TH STREET
SEATTLE WA 98107
phone 917-862-2262
*Grow/Draw: New Paintings by Isabelle Grizzard Robertson*
*The Positivity Project*
A collaboration between dao jewelry and the Piano Nobile Printshop.
*Semaphore*
The first collection of furniture, lighting, and textiles from Piano Nobile Home made its debut in May. A selection of tables and lamps will be on display.
*Farmhouse Modern*
Chadhaus introduces the newest piece in the celebrated Farmhouse Modern collection: a dining table made entirely from recycled or salvaged materials, including some gorgeous straight-grain fir.
*Live Music!*
Summer Open Studio will spill from the gallery into the front drive, where musician and author Steve Treseler and company will perform.
more information on the studio piano nobile website.
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