U-turns From The Intersection Of Design and Culture
7:30 pm / 27 JUN
A+D Museum
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90036
Tel. 323.932.9393
AIGA/LA presents a series of conversations that go beyond traditional design speak. Instead, a mash-up of creators from diverse-and sometimes divergent disciplines will challenge audiences to make new connections about design's purpose and practice.
Join us for a fun Friday evening night out on Museum Row as we welcome installation artist and landscape designer, Andy Cao, as well as projection artist and world peace supporter, Bart Kresa for a conversation about how material, texture and light support and move the experience of design. Graphic designers will gain new insights as Andy and Bart discuss their design process and how scale provides a unique opportunity to impact the surrounding community.
Mingle with your colleagues and create new connections, under the stars, at this not-to-be-missed courtyard event.
7:30-8:30 p.m. Artist reception
8:30-10:00 p.m. Program
10:00-10:30 p.m. Closing reception
Gallery will be opened for viewing
Ticket Information
Members $20
Non-members $30
Student members $10
Student non-members $15
Register by June 26, 9 p.m.
Tickets will be an extra $10.00 when purchased after this date and at the door.
Register online or call 818.558.3968.
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Speakers
Andy Cao, Partner
cao|perrot studio
Bart Kresa, President
BARTKRESA design
Moderated by
Louise Sandhaus
Louise Sandhaus Design LSD
Andy Cao
Andy Cao, is a Vietnamese born landscape designer, artist and design partner of cao|perrot studios, New York. He is a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Utilizing properties of familiar overlooked materials, cao|perrot studios create environments that defy specific meaning, and invite the visitor into a contemplative world of color and sensuality.
By drawing on diverse cultural backgrounds, landscape designers artist Andy Cao and partner Xavier Perrot, from France and Vietnam respectively; create work that adapts to a global perspective. Their work has always been about creating total environments--a blending of landscape and art to create a place for dreaming.
Bart Kresa
Bart Kresa is the founding partner of BARTKRESA design. With 15 years of experience designing for cutting edge companies worldwide. Kresa brings a deep understanding and experience in projection design and installation and is also a faculty member of The University of the Arts. Harnessing the power of light to create powerful images powered by powerful ideas, BARTKRESA design brings forth expressions through light.
With innovative optical technology and inspiring design talent, BARTKRESA design is at the forefront of digital art installations and large-scale projections. Their work has been celebrated worldwide in Asia, North America, Europe, and the Middle East for transforming skylines, creating environments for media events, and producing innovative, interactive public digital art.
Louise Sandhaus
Louise Sandhaus Design (LSD) is a multifaceted, collaborative practice centered in graphic design with a mix of making, teaching, writing, and instigating events. Projects range from experimental to practical, from speculative to real, and from mini to major. Louise has been teaching design since 1990 and is the former director of the graphic design program at CalArts.
A+D Exhibition
After the Flood: Building on Higher Ground, April 18-June 27
An exhibition presenting compelling international architectural responses for the redevelopment of New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The exhibit examines the devastation wrought by Katrina and offers a sampling of proposals, including a redesign of the traditional shotgun house whose height off the ground can be adjusted. And architectural students at Harvard designed modules that float on water during a flood and pull in their umbilical-like utilities cords and redistribute themselves when floodwaters recede.
Great event. Very inspiring. Thanks to Andy and Bart for showing a new way of thinking and creativity. Great job to AIGA team who put this event together. Thank you.
H.Atmali
Great presentations last night! Very inspiring to see what can be done with scale and environment. Transforming what surrounds us everyday. Thanks to all who made it possible! Yummy food too ;)
Very engaging evening of people, tasty honeyed apricot bytes w/ goat cheese by the Kitch; rockin starllation light show for Poland and Israel, Fuze lanyards, wwwonderfullll landscaping glass designs; 5 baby ducks in the fountain; a drive-by crazy wayout 'Batmobile' on a Warner Bros truck bed down Wilshire Blvd.; homeless comment at the AIGA membership table: "Katrina? listen, n'aw 'leans is ovah, fugetaboutit"; large, odd wormlike shape inflatables that were comfy to sit on, statistics on huricanes; Chilean red, a shiraz I didn't get to, non-descript white; a glorious cold wind; a great sound system in the courtyard - I was sitting in the back and not even 4 MTA buses in a row could drown out a plug for WORLD PEACE; fun volunteers; peeps....lots of peeps, peeps who brought peeps, peeps who knew peeps, peeps who didn't know any peeps, peeps meeting new peeps, peeps who bipped and bobbled, peeps who pipped, peeps who CROSSED the DIVIDE: right bank LACMA - left bank A+DESIGN - just to see what these other peeps were about; two hundred and two antique cast iron lampposts all in rows across the street (ah, a little bit of Pasadena on Wilshire boulevard - kinda...maybe...); one large trash can of wine bottles, 6 large bags of trash and a partridge in a pear tree. Only in L.A.