Gori for Chopsticks
Industrial Design Assistant Professor Sang-gyeun Ahn entered the 2011 Kitchen Tools design competition with his Gori for chopsticks. Out of 374 entries from 54 nations, his design was chosen as 1 of 17 honorees. Gori has also received notice in a number of blogs recently, including Yanko Design.
The Henry Art Gallery once again hosts the exhibition of work by the Master of Fine Arts graduating class. It opens on Friday, 27 May 2011, from 7-9pm, and stays up through 19 June 2011. Don’t miss it! The students with work in this show are Cole Benson, Kate Clark, Kimberly Clark, Neal Fryett, Shweta Grampurohit, Leanne Grimes, Matthew Hilger, Nate Landes, Gustavo Martinez, Christopher McElroy, Sean McElroy, Stephen Minarsch, Nuala Ni Fhlathuin, Annie Schultz, and Joshua Sleicher-MacCracken. Information about gallery hours and admission is available online.
Brittany Truex will soon be receiving her BFA in Visual Communication Design. Her talent and the support of the Design faculty have helped her to obtain a Graphic Design Internship at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts for the summer of 2011.
Open Satellite Closes
Most recently led by Yoko Ott (BFA 1999), Open Satellite in Bellevue had to close its doors at the end of March 2011. Their residency and exhibition programs were funded by Su Development. The last exhibit was work by Mitzi Pederson titled the still night air, and it was curated by Michael Van Horn. Van Horn is a School of Art staff person in the Photomedia Program who is also an artist and curator.
Henry Open House
Join the fun at the Henry Art Gallery to celebrate the opening of The Talent Show. There will be a costume contest, live performances, interventions by Jason Hirata (BFA 2009), and more. The cost is $12 for the general public and $8 for students and seniors. Henry Art Gallery members may participate for free, including an earlier event from 6-8pm.
Buy Art + Support a Cause
The theme of this year’s HELLO Poster Show is “Lost and Found.” Two Design alumni, Benjamin K. Shown and Alanna MacGowan, curated the show. Multiple alumni and some current students created the posters. Sales benefit Youth in Focus. More information and links are on our calendar.
Axel Roesler in UW Today
Design Assistant Professor Axel Roesler was featured in a UW Today article today. The article focuses on two of the many projects in which Roesler and his Interaction Design students have been involved: flight deck design and Code Blue documentation. You can learn more about Roesler’s work in an earlier News Feed post.
Foran Exhibits and Curates
Jacob Foran (MFA 2010) has a show of new sculpture titled Figureheads at the Cinema Gallery in Urbana, IL. The exhibition closes on 21 May 2011. Last autumn he curated a show at the same gallery titled A Show of Heads, which ran from 02 October through 13 November. Among the ten artists in the show were Tanya Batura (BFA 1998), Associate Professor Doug Jeck, and Professor Akio Takamori.
Dominic Muren @fastcompany
Design Lecturer Dominic Muren and his interest in post-industrial design were featured on Fast Company’s blog in an early March interview. He is also an advisor for a project called Protei that was recently funded through Kickstarter pledging. The project plans to develop an open source fleet of robot drones that can clean up oil spills. Protei was featured in Good Magazine’s blog in early March.
Mr. Peeper is Here!
The first Blaauw kiln in the Pacific Northwest was installed at 3D4M in March 2011, and it was immediately christened Mr. Peeper. Purchase of the kiln was funded by a UW Student Technology Fee grant. Gerard Blaauw and his son, Rick, installed and tested the kiln with support from faculty, staff, and graduate students. Blaauw Products, based in the Netherlands, builds kilns that use 60% less energy than traditional kilns, which both saves money on energy bills and reduces carbon emissions. The new 3D4M kiln was custom-built, and its burner system is completely computer controlled. The kiln can fire objects up to 5’11” tall by 4’11” wide by 3’7″ deep.
