Later Today: Design Matters

I haven’t had much time lately, so I am terribly remiss in my blogging, but I’ve been working on lots of other interesting things - preparing for the Fall shows at the gallery, choosing, announcing and curating a show from the winners of the Summer edition of the gallery’s Hey, Hot Shot competition and actually spending time live and in person (the novelty!) with lots of other design and architecture bloggers.

There’s lots of good stuff in store here, as soon as I can carve out some time to get all the stuff that’s floating around in my brain transformed into bloggy goodness. Also: it’s Summer. Why be in front of a computer when you can be melting on New York City sidewalks?

Later today, I’ll be talking about design blogging in some very very fine company, on Debbie Millman’s radio show, Design Matters.

Here’s Debbie’s announcement about the show:
The show is from 3-4PM EST and you can view the VoiceAmerica Business site and listen to the show from a number of places:
You can go here, through the Sterling link:
http://www.sterlingbrands.com/DesignMatters/listennow.html
or you can go here, through the Voice America link:
http://www.business.voiceamerica.com/

Please note that you will need Windows Media Player or the equivalent program to listen in. You can download the technology for free here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp

Everyone is welcome to call in live and toll free–the number is
1-866-233-7861.

The VoiceAmerica Business network radio station is the industry leader in Internet talk radio, and Design Matters is proud to announce that we have 140,000 listeners to our show.

I am thrilled and honored to let you know that joining me on today’s live talk radio show “Design Matters with Debbie Millman” are the founders four of the most exciting design blogs being written today: Armin Vit and Bryony Palacio-Gomez from Speak Up, Rick Poyner from Design Observer, Bennett Holzworth and Adrian Hanft III from Be A Design Group, and Jen Bekman from Personism.

Let me tell you a bit more about this extraordinary new(ish) medium and the folks behind these sites:
Armin Vit
Bryony Palacio-Gomez
UnderConsideration
Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer now living in Brooklyn, New York. He has written for AIGA’s VOICE, Emigre, Eye, HOW and STEP magazines among others. His work has been published in numerous publications around the world and has garnered a few awards. He is a former faculty member of Portfolio Center and has lectured on topics ranging from typography to branding in locations ranging from San Diego to Berlin. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration and founder of the (in)famous Speak Up. Currently, he spends his daytime working at Pentagram and the first Wednesdays of every month as a board member for AIGA’s New York chapter. Feisty behind the keyboard, Armin remains timid at heart.

Co-founder of UnderConsideration and author for Speak Up, Bryony Palacio-Gomez is a graphic designer, photographer, painter and writer. Lover of the world, she has traveled the globe while observing and challenging ideas and expectations; translating her knowledge into different media, she has been recognized by various design and poetry publications as well as galleries and her work has even been utilized by dance companies. Bryony lives, works and continues to challenge the world, in Brooklyn, New York.

Born on-line in september of 2002, Speak Up is an author-based,
reader-supported community devoted to graphic design open to conversation and dialogue. Its mission is to further the graphic design profession from within with the goal of creating a stronger and clearer sense of what our role is as professionals in light of the responsibility we have as communicators.

Rick Poyner
Design Observer
Rick Poynor founded Eye magazine in London in 1990, edited it for seven years and is now its resident columnist. He writes the “Observer” column for Print magazine and he has written about design, media and visual culture for Blueprint, Icon, Frieze, Domus, I.D., Metropolis, Harvard Design Magazine, Adbusters, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and many other publications. His books include More Dark Than Shark (1986), a study of Brian Eno’s early songs, Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), and Typographica (2001). He is the author of two collections of essays, Design Without Boundaries (1998) and Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001). No More Rules, a critical study of graphic design and postmodernism, appeared in 2003. Poynor studied the history of art at Manchester University and gained an MPhil in design history from the Royal College of Art, London. He has been a visiting professor at the RCA and a tutor at the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, and he lectures widely on design matters in Europe, the United States and Australia. He is guest curator of the exhibition “Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties”, which opened at the Barbican Centre, London in September 2004 and is touring in China through 2005.

Bennett Holzworth
Adrian Hanft III
Be A Design Group

Bennett Holzworth
His passions range from reading anything remotely related to design to letterpressing, made possible by the acquisition of a tabletop letterpress and sixteen trays of type. He finds that a nice balance of technology and trends (iPod, G4, Netflix) mixed in with some good old classics (books, letterpress, Pentax K-1000) give a nice balanced creative output. Bennett also gains inspiration along with some visual input from his printmaking wife, Suzanne. Bennett studied graphic design at Concordia University where he earned his BFA in 1999. He has worked as a designer in a marketing department and several ad agencies, including his current job at Idea Bank Marketing. While living in Omaha he was an executive board member of AIGA Nebraska. Bennett founded club(red), a graphic design book club through the Nebraska chapter of the AIGA. There are currently two chapters of club(red).

Adrian Hanft III
Adrian studied graphic design at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. His studies at Concordia focused on photography, wheel-thrown ceramics, drawing, and collage in addition to the traditional design curriculum.
When he isn’t doing something art related, he enjoys mountain biking, playing chess, reading design books, and discovering new music. In addition to being co-founder of Be A Design Group, Adrian maintains a photo blog called Found Photography.

Be A Design Group is an invitation to all people to participate in design. We created our blog as a place where designers can test new ideas, share observations, and comment on cultural trends. Our definition of design is intentionally broad so that the subject matter of our posts can be diverse and unlimited. Our blog is intended to be more than just a discussion on graphic design as a specific career path. We have chosen to be designers because we are passionate about design. Our belief is that to be great a designer you must be an active growing designer. By exploring how design affects all aspects of life, we keep growing and help others grow. It is our goal to be an influence in the design community and the culture at large.

My bio is here: More Than You Needed to Know.