Welcome!

Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year!

We have a great team of faculty, graduate students, and students this year!

Faculty This Year
Heidi Lowe, Innovative Jewelry Studio, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, has a great exhibition up right now: Swedish Jewelry and new show going up next week. Visit!

Megan Auman, Megan Auman Designs, Megan will be exhibiting at the NY Gift Fair this week. Check out her website and blog for great new designs- housewares, objects, jewelry.

Janet Huddie, independent studio artist, was sporting a beautiful new rapid prototyped bracelet this week. You might be able to find a portfolio at the Metals Guild of Maryland site.

Kim Voigt, teaching ART 217 Intro to Computer Media [M,9-12:50] and ART 361 Rhino I, gave a great presentation last week with Courtney Starrett, CADlaborating in Virtual Realms, at the SIGGRAPH conference on a collaborative project that her students at Towson did with a group of peers at Winthrop University in South Carolina highlighting the Towson University Innovation Lab in Second Life.

We have a lot of exciting new ideas and plans in place for you!
Collaboration with each other is a big point of emphasis. We are going to use this blog as our home base for the Interdisciplinary Object Design/Metals + Jewelry program on the web with lots of authors. If you are not an author and would like to be let me know.

Some Dates
Thursday September 10th is our kickoff party: Middle School Dance. CA 2006, 7pm. Featured speakers: Taylor Gilbert just back from a semester in Scotland at the Glasgow School of Art will talk about that experience and studying abroad, Megan Pase just got a job in the field which she is loving, Johanna Haydon [2009] is working at an internship at the Innovative Jewelry Studio. Anyone wanting to share their summer experiences at Peter's Valley or other job/related experience, let me know. All are welcome. {Actually, the party is required :)}

Saturday, September 26, is our annual trip to NYC! The Cooper Hewitt is on first destination to see Design For A Living World. Prepare to be blown away :). Then, hopefully on to SOHO- Droog opened a store there earlier this year. Wahoo! [Get Googlin']

Thursday, October 8th, Jaime Salm from Mio Culture in Philadelphia is our featured guest speaker. CA2032, 6:30pm. Google now! This is a huge coup. P.S. Bring Birthday cup cakes!

And we have a great powder coating system in place!
And we have a new laser cutter!

Classes
Lots of intro classes, non-art major classes
ART 370.050, Design and Social Entrepreneurship, a.k.a Design Like You Give A Damn
ART 319, Casting: metal, concrete, biopolymers.....What can be cast?
ART 418 Metals + Jewelry II- surfaces, hollow fab
ART 414- Advanced Studio- we'll be doing all kinds of fun and custom designed, leading edge things.
Honor's Project

We've got it all! And we are happy to be here. And we are happy you are here!
Welcome.

conversations

So here's a question/topic for all of you out there...

Do you consider yourself a Jeweler? a Maker? a Designer? an Artist? a Craftsperson?
What do you think the differences are between those? Do you feel like you fit into multiple categories or not fit in to any of those? How would you introduce yourself?

Comment away! Or find me and talk in person too.....

Happy Summer!

Happy Summer!
This spring I took several trips to NYC. Here's what is on my Palm pilot to blog about here:
ICFF: Tons of great ideas, products, materials, attittudes; Truly an international show- work from the Danes, the Czech Republic, Italy [of course], Spain, and many more countries.
The Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum: This work is amazing. Really.
The Whitney Biennial: have a seat, we'll talk.
MOSS rocked. The place to be. What has traditionally been known as "the decorative arts" has definitely morphed into new and exciting territory. People like stuff. Especially cool, well designed stuff.
SoHo, SoHo, SoHo: There are 4 stacks of stuff from NYC on my living room floor.
AND Design and The Elastic Mind at MOMA: Where do I start? Buy the catalog if you missed the show.

But, alas, it is now mid-July and I must get some of my own work done.

I promised some Summer Reading suggestions......
The Long Tail, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine
The Uncommon Life of Objects, Akiko Busch, writer for Metropolis
The Experience Economy, James Gilmore
Victor Margolin- anything he wrote on design
Understanding Design, now at Cook Library
Massive Change, Bruce Mau
Cradle to Cradle, William McDounogh and _________Brungart
And the regular favorite mags.....International Design, Metropolis, Wired, FastCompany......

Happy Summer!
Eat Fresh Tomatoes,
Jan

Design Pulse

I am going to try to make a series of regular posts called Design Pulse of designers, people, places to know. This is an effort to assist students in keeping their finger on the pulses of the design world. It is my hope that students will spend some time on line learning more about these pulses as a way of informing their education and their own studio practice. It is an interesting world, learn about it.

Here we go.....
Louise-Anne Comeau
Studio Job
Alexander van Slobbe
Jaime Hayon
Murray Moss
Julia Lohmann
Vitra
Artek
Artecnica
Established + Sons
Milan Furniture Fair (Cosmit is the organizer)
ICFF- International Contemporary Furniture Fair (NYC)

These are folks I mentioned in class this semester....
Maarten Baas
Hella Jongerius
Ronan + Erwan Bouroullec
Jurgen Bey