Category Archives: Talks/Lectures
Humbug (Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee) at the Strand tomorrow
An Evening with HUMBUG at the Strand, April 14th!
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS AND THE STRAND PRESENT: AN EVENING OF HUMBUG
In 1957, five artists — Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Arnold Roth, Al Jaffee and Jack Davis – hot on the heels of creating MAD magazine, pooled their money and their talent and entered into the creative, exuberant folly of a lifetime by creating the greatest satirical magazine of their careers. Join HUMBUG co-founders Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee in a book signing and discussion about this historic publication with Fantagraphics Publisher and editor of the collected HUMBUG, Gary Groth. Attendees will also enjoy an exclusive screening of a documentary short film about the late Will Elder.
An Evening with HUMBUG
Featuring Arnold Roth and Al Jaffee in conversation with Gary Groth
Tuesday, April 14, 7:00PM
The Strand Bookstore
12th St. & Broadway,
New York, NY
Aftertaste3–New Agendas for the Study of the Interior
It is not hard to imagine an apartment whose layout would depend no longer on the activities of the day, but on functional relationships between the rooms… It takes a little more imagination, no doubt, to picture an apartment whose layout was based on the functioning of the senses. We can imagine well enough what a gustatorium might be, or an auditorium, but one might wonder what a visuorium might look like, or an olfactorium or a palporium.
Georges Perec, “The Apartment”, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces [1974]
London: Penguin Books 1997, 31.
AFTERTASTE 3, the annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of Interior Design, intends to provoke a discussion about the richness of the senses and their role in the comprehension of space and inhabitation. Experimental in character, this conference aims to consider projects and ideas that stem from investigations into the workings of the senses.
Writer Georges Perec famously urged us to imagine separate rooms for taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch, yet one might also inversely challenge the primacy of visual perception by bringing the more peripheral and intertwined aspects of sensory experience into focus.
AFTERTASTE 3 will feature accomplished designers, architects, and artists whose work specifically addresses the complex and still relatively unexplored role of sentient perception in the imagining of interiors.
Here’s a list of participants:
James Auger
Robert Israel
Kent Kleinman
Robert Kirkbride
Joanna Merwood-Salisbury
Charlie Morrow
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Victoria Anne Rospond
Mayer Rus
Emily Thompson
James Tichenor
Sissal Tolaas
Sabine von Fischer
Joshua Walton
Alfred Zollinger
And here is a link to the full schedule.
Aftertaste 3
Friday, April 3rd, 3-7 p.m.
and Saturday, April 4th 10-7 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium
66 5th Avenue, New York
Ariel Schrag and Gabrielle Bell at Desert Island Comics this Friday!
Gabrielle Bell and Ariel Schrag will appear at DESERT ISLAND BOOKS from 7 to 9 this Friday, March 27th, to celebrate their new books (“Cecil and Jordan in New York” and “Likewise”) with a slideshow/signing/book release party.
Friday, March 27th
7-9 p.m.
Desert Island Books
540 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn NY
Writing for Children Forum at the New School
Writing For Children Forum: Getting Published Panel
March 31st at 6:30 p.m.
Experts in the field of children’s book publishing discuss how to get your work published. Featuring Alvina Ling, senior editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Ben Tomek, marketing associate, Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing; and Anna Olswanger, literary agent, Liza Dawson Associates.
Moderated by Deborah Brodie, editor.
Location
Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, room 510
Admission
$5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
In-person ticket purchases
The New School Box Office
66 West 12th Street, main floor
Monday-Friday 1:00-7:00 p.m.
Reservations and inquiries can also be made by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu or calling 212.229.5488.
Quick Hit: Ben Katchor at the Brooklyn Public Library
Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7 pm:
Brooklyn Independents: Graphic New York
Graphic novelists Ben Katchor, Dan Goldman and Youme Landowne explore New York City through their work. They will discuss their work and their artistic processes.
Brooklyn Public Library
Central Library
Dweck Center
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY
tel. 718.230.2100
[illustration by Ben Katchor]
Society of Publication Designers @ FIT Speaker Series
DWI: Do It With Illustration
Under the Influence with Today’s Most Arresting Illustrators
Tuesday, March 3rd
7:00 – 8:30pm
FIT Katie Murphy Amphitheater
27th and 7th Avenue, Building D
Doors open at 6:30pm.
NOTE: A screening of the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline video will be shown at 6:45pm, so come early.
Student Fee: $5 at the door
Professional Fee: $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
Make reservations on the SPD web site: http://www.spd.org/
The 6 presenting illustrators for the panel discussion and Q&A will include:
• Peter Arkle
• Juliette Borda
• Christopher Silas Neal
• Tim O’Brien
• Katherine Streeter
• Jillian Tamaki (Parsons Illustration Faculty)
Moderated by Mark Heflin, Director, American Illustration and American Photography
Sustainable Architecture: Communication through Art
For over 30 years Development Workshop France (DWF) has promoted sustainable settlement and shelter development, respecting existing values and utilizing local skills and resources. Current projects focus on vulnerability reduction and the resolution of human settlement difficulties in Africa and South East Asia-difficulties that result from wide-ranging changes to the way people live, whether climatic and environmental, socioeconomic and demographic, or as a result of man-made and natural disasters and war.
DWF is the only nonprofit organisation ever to win two World Habitat Awards: in 1998 for Woodless Construction in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso; and in 2008 for Prevention of Typhoon Damage in Vietnam.
On Monday March 2, the founder and president of DWF will present DWF’s recent work in Burkina Faso and in Vietnam, and discuss the role that illustration, animation, music, and drama have played in educating and training on the local level. Please join us in Kellen Auditorium at 4PM for this truly interdisciplinary event. More details of DWF’s work are on their web site: www.dwf.org
This event is hosted by Parsons faculty members Carol Overby, Design + Management, and Nora Krug, Illustration
John Norton, founder and president
Development Workshop France
Kellen Auditorium
66 Fifth Avenue, ground floor
Monday March 2 4-6PM
Space is limited; RSVP overbyc@newschool.edu
David Polonsky at Society of Illustrators
Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:30 at The Society of Illustrators (128 East 63rd) meet David Polonsky, the illustrator and art director of Ari Forman’s Waltz with Bashir. Polonsky will discuss the techniques that were used to make this unique animated documentary. The talk will be accompanied by clips from the film. A Q and A session will follow and a book signing for the release of a graphic novel based upon the film.
$10 members, $15 non-members.
RSVP to kevin@societyillustrators.org
Here’s a trailer for the movie if you haven’t already seen it:
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Felipe Taborda talk at the New School
Felipe Taborda is a Brazilian designer, author and superstar. He is a graphic designer from Rio de Janeiro. He studied cinema and photography at the London International Film School (England), Communication Arts at the New York Institute of Technology and Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts (USA). He is professor at UniverCidade/RJ and has had his own office since 1990, working mainly in the cultural, publishing and recording areas. His works appears in the recently released books Graphic Design for the 21st Century – 100 of the World’s Best Graphic Designers, published by Taschen (Germany); and World Graphic Design, published by Merrell Publishers (England).
On Wednesday, February 25th, he’ll be talking about his great new book Latin American Graphic Design.
He’ll also be discussing this workshop that he organized with teens in shanty towns of Rio, Salvador and Recife.
Wednesday, February 25th, 6:30 pm
Parsons, The New School for Design, Wollman Hall
66 West 11th St, 5th Fl (Enter at 66 West 12th St)
Free
Copies of his book will be available.