Friday 10 June 2005
Haft Auditorium, F.I.T.
27th Street, between Seventh & Eighth Aves.
6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Wine & snacks reception
7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation
Fresh Dialogue is an annual exploration of emerging patterns in graphic design, first presented in 1984. This year’s event bridges the divide of low and high tech by offering two studios standing at opposite sides of the field of designed objects and social responsibility. Camouflage and sleds are not a traditional focus for graphic designers, yet Fresh Dialogue 2005 will use peripheral vision to bring very disparate work into focus. The 62 and Crye Associates will discuss what makes them similar, what makes them very different and the large gray area in between. Moderated by James Victore.
The 62 is a Brooklyn-based design and art collective that works with designers, artists, social and not-for-profit organizations on projects that involve a vision of sustainable culture within a contemporary urban environment. The collective recently concluded a project in the exhibition “Other America” at Exit Art. Titled “The Art of the Possible or How I Learned to Build a Sled Out of Trash,” their interactive sculptural installation invited participants to ride sleighs made out of trash down a tree fort-like construction of a hill.
Crye Associates design, engineer and fabricate everything from light switches and handheld P.C.s to handgun components and GP racing motorcycles. As lead contractors on the U.S. military’s Project Scorpion, they are re-inventing everything worn or carried by a soldier. They have designed clothing for Lion Apparel, the nation’s leading maker of protective equipment for firemen, and done experimental research and development work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Crye Precision was founded in 2004 to manufacture and market their designs. The work of Crye Associates is on view in two exhibitions, “Extreme Textiles” at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and “Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design” at the San Jose Museum of Art.
James Victore, self-taught and independent badass, has been widely heralded for his provocative promotional and advertising design, posters, book jackets, and animation. He’s had solo gallery shows from Texas to Prague and his clients include Mo�t & Chandon, Amnesty International, the School of Visual Arts, The New York Times, Starbucks, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Portfolio Center.
Publication offer
Beginning in 2000 Fresh Dialogue has been documented in a publication issued by Princeton Architectural Press. The latest in the series is Fresh Dialogue Five: New Voices in Graphic Design, featuring the work of Rodrigo Corral, Alan Dye, Agnieszka Gasparska and the studio Omnivore (Alice Chung & Karen Hsu). The event was moderated by Chip Kidd. Purchase a copy of the new book while you register for this year’s event and it will be waiting for you at the auditorium at check-in.
anyone go to this?
a little expensive for my blood.
On Jun.16.2005 at 01:38 PM