Archive for January, 2012
ACIDO is participating at IDS12 with its Industrial Design Experience exhibit. Our booth allows visitors to try their hand at the most fun and creative part of the design process, the ideation phase. Using an app developed with Primordial Soup, each user will be able to sketch out their product ideas on one of five scenarios. Our goal is to highlight designers’ emphasis on user-centric design. Here are some images of the exhibit in action:
Spread the word! Gary Hustwit will be in person to present his films Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized – all part of his infamous Design Trilogy – later this week TIFF Bell Lightbox. .
Join us in Vancouver, BC February 24 – 25th, 2012 for ‘Profit By Design’ an exclusive two day product development and innovation conference and workshop. ‘Profit By Design’ promises to deliver unprecedented access as some of North America’s leading ‘Design First’ corporations divulge their business of innovation and reveal methods and practices of signature success.
‘Profit By Design’ is an intimate 200 person event tailored specifically for corporate and organization strategists. Whether initiating product service systems, R&D, business innovation, capital investment (angels & VCs) or government programs promoting Canada’s value added agenda, ‘Profit By Design’ will inspire you with stimulating presentations and provide interactive learning opportunities with some of the best designers, business minds and investment gurus in Canada.
‘Profit By Design’ is organized by the Association of Canadian industrial Designers [ACID] and the Emily Carr University of Art + Design [ECUAD], with support and co-sponsorship from professional associations in Canada.
The Design Exchange is proud to announce the Canadian premiere of Unfinished Spaces with introduction by Co-director Benjamin Murray
January 19, 2012 at the DX
6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
ABOUT
“Cuba will count as having the most beautiful academy of arts in the world.” —Fidel Castro (1961)
Cuba’s ambitious National Art Schools project, designed by three young artists in the wake of Castro’s Revolution, is neglected, nearly forgotten, then ultimately rediscovered as a visionary architectural masterpiece.
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba’s National Art Schools on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school’s first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream.
Unfinished Spaces features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists.
FILMMAKER BIOS
Alysa Nahmias, Co-Director, Co-Producer
Alysa Nahmias is founder and executive director of Ajna Films. Unfinished Spaces is her feature directing debut. Her producing credits also include The Listening Archive and Outside the Giardini. She has received numerous grants and awards from government agencies and private foundations, including the New York State Council on the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Graham Foundation. Nahmias holds a Masters degree in architecture (M.Arch) from Princeton University and a B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Benjamin Murray, Co-Director, Co-Producer, Director of Photography
Benjamin Murray started his post production company, The Room, in 2010 and currently partners with Technicolor through two Flame Premium suites. His regular clients include major networks and numerous independent production companies. Murray’s recent projects include: No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese; Capitalism: A Love Story, directed by Michael Moore; The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, directed by Thom Zimny; Client 9, directed by Alex Gibney; Reagan, directed by Eugene Jarecki; Fog of War, directed by Errol Morris; My Architect, directed by Nathaniel Kahn; Born Into Brothels, directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman; and Once In a Lifetime, directed by Paul Crowder. Murray holds a BFA in Film and Television Production from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.