Art Center College of Design fall 2011 • 01 aRTCENTER.EDU/DOT scan QR code for instant access. Experience Dot online. Fall 2011 Dot magazine is published by the Department of Marketing and Communications Art Center College of Design 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena, CA 91103 artcenter.edu Editor : Vanessa Silberman Senior Writer : Mike Winder Art Director : Winnie Li Designers : Eliana Domingez, Winnie Li, Miguel Ramirez Production Manager : Audrey Krauss T abl Online Programmer : Chuck Spangler message from the 28 in memoriam Online Consultant : Roman Jaster Art Center Dot E president Celebrating the life of O President : Lorne M. Buchman Donald R. 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Dot, Art Center, and Art Center College of Design are trade- A trailblazer in the field of interaction marks of Art Center College of Design. design, Ian Sands PROD 95 reflects on his professional experiences and his Student works reproduced or referenced in this publication are for educational current project with Bill Gates. Plus, purposes only. No part of this publication details on the new Interaction Design may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic program at Art Center. or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage 20 Designing from the Inside Out: or retrieval system, without written Sami Hayek permission of the publisher. Environmental Design at Art Center With a new graduate program in the works, Sami Hayek ENVL 96 sands an Humo Piggy Bank, an object Printed on Utopia 1X: Green with 20% we take a look at the Environmental from his new Espacio Sami Hayek line. The bank, hurricanes post-consumer waste and Classic Crest, both FSC-certified Mix. Design Department’s faculty, alumni and and cocktail table (back cover) are all crafted from humo, students who have brought their expertise a clay native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Created in Comments? Suggestions? Send your to projects ranging from barstools to collaboration with Mexican artisans, the objects in Hayek’s ideas to [email protected]. a public park for underserved teens. latest line—including the 160 Stool (front cover)—blend local craftsmanship and old world materials with new world techniques and a contemporary aesthetic. Read more about Hayek and Environmental Design on Visit us on pages 20–27. facebook and Twitter facebook.com /artcenter.edu espaciosamihayek.com twitter.com /art_center Programs Public • 03 aRTCENTER.EDU/DOT around the Classes begin January 17, 2012. begin January 17, Classes begins November 28; Registration Continuing Studies: Art Center at Night/ world MAKE a ROUND Art Center Dot Classes begin February 4, 2012. Registration begins January 4; Saturday High (grades 9–12): THE w OR l IT D HAPPEN One Part Strategy, who spent most of her time designing One Part Revelry art installations and experiences for Art Center’s Public Programs offer more than Classes begin February 19, 2012. Registration begins January 23; Art Center for Kids (grades 4–8): visitors to Fatboy-branded events. Don’t Christiane Holzheid Mfa MDP 09 250 innovative classes in art and design education be fooled; it wasn’t all hard work. Camp for adults, kids and teens. Last spring, Sid Lee Collective—the activities included pillow fights, diving “cultural and commercial incubator” through paper walls and sliding on arm of Montreal-based creative agency a floor while wearing three layers of Learn more: artcenter.edu/makeithappen Sid Lee—held a contest in which stockings. Despite the reality show applicants from around the world elements of the camp, Holzheid said applied to Sid Lee Boot Camp. The all the participants connected easily purpose of the camp? To bring together and were too busy collaborating to get eight creatives for 10 days under one in each other’s faces. “There was no roof—a former industrial workspace drama at all,” said Holzheid. “Sid Lee transformed into a camp-like environ- put a confession booth in our space, ment—to rebrand the next decade of but no one ever used it.” Fatboy, the Netherlands-based company famous for its bean bag furniture. youtube.com /sidleetv Among the chosen few was Berlin- based Christiane Holzheid MA F MDP 09, • 04 fall 2011 • 05 aRTCENTER.EDU/DOT Rubber Sole Throw Your Hands in the Air Grant Delgatty PROD 95, f aculty, Product Design Claire Gerhardt Ms INDU 07 Never heard of Urshuz? You will soon enough. That’s the It’s hard to believe, but we’re coming up on the one year name of faculty member Grant Delgatty’s PROD 95 new line anniversary of Microsoft’s release of the Kinect—that motion-, of footwear that allows consumers to mix and match a face-, voice-, distance-recognizing Xbox 360 accessory shoe’s uppers and soles into a variety of material and color that lets players move their bodies in lieu of holding a combinations. Delgatty’s history in the footwear industry gamepad. Launching with the tagline “You are the controller,” includes stints designing for K-Swiss and leading the design the Kinect not only received accolades (The New York Times teams at DVS Shoes and Vans. Urshuz (pronounced “yer called launch game Dance Central “pure genius”) but it also shoes”) features a patent-pending U-ring fastening system became the fastest-selling consumer electronics product to connect their uppers to their 100 percent recyclable soles. of all time. And according to Microsoft User Experience Launched earlier this year, they were available initially at Designer Claire Gerhardt MS INDU 07, who was part of the select retail locations—Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, team responsible for the Kinect, this is only the beginning. DNA Footwear in Brooklyn and ShoeLab in Rosemère, Quebec In addition to an ever-growing list of compatible games— —but Urshuz recently hit the big time and can now be Kinect Star Wars, Mass Effect 3, Forza IV—the device has purchased at Urban Outfitters retail stores nationwide. also fostered an enthusiastic hacking community that’s tweaking the device for everything from medical rehabilita- An Ancient Urn of Whoop-Ass urshuz.com tion to art installations. “There’s a whole world waiting out Tarsem singh fIlM 90 there,” said Gerhardt. Director Tarsem Singh FILM 90 (The Cell, The Fall) has gone xbox.com/kinect on record as saying his upcoming film Immortals can be best described as Caravaggio meets Fight Club. Can you say, “Hades, yes?” The film pits legendary Greek hero a D ROUND l Theseus, played by Henry Cavill (The Tudors, Superman in Art Center Dot OR director Zack Snyder’s FILM 89 forthcoming Man of Steel), w against the bloodthirsty Titan god Hyperion, played by THE THE Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), who has amassed an army w of imprisoned Titans and seeks to toss the Olympians off OR Art Center Dot l ROUND Mount Olympus for good. The film also features Freida Pinto D a (Slumdog Millionaire) as Phaedra, the Sybelline Oracle who assists Theseus in assembling his followers, and Luke Davis (Clash of the Titans) and John Hurt (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) as the young and elder Zeus, respectively. The man to watch for? Robert Maillet (Sherlock Holmes), still from who plays the Minotaur, the mythological half-man, half-bull Immortals, 2011. and Theseus’ most infamous adversary. Courtesy Universal Pictures and Relativity Media. immortalsmovie.com Sugah-licious Tara McPherson IllU 01 Last April, Tara McPherson ILLU1 0 opened The Cotton Candy Machine, an art boutique and gallery in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Formerly McPherson’s studio, A Growing Garden envl7 8 . Created with his sister, the the ground-floor space specializes in affordable art, including Patrick Hruby IllU 10 writer Emily Hruby, Counting in the limited edition prints and serigraphs as well as posters, shirts, Garden is a delightful departure from books, toys and more by a variety of artists. McPherson was Parents of toddlers, do we have some- the usual fare—onions, turnips and dubbed “the crown princess of poster art” by Elle magazine thing for you: AMMO Books recently thistles all make appearances—and for her work with rock bands like Beck, Modest Mouse and published the second children’s board there’s a sense of excitement as the The Strokes. The space is home to monthly art shows, book by artist Patrick Hruby ILLU0 1 , garden fantastically multiplies with events and signings. Currently on view are works by Travis called Counting in the Garden. It’s his each turn of the page. Best of all, it Louie and Chris Ryniak, in partnership with Circus Posterus fifth project for AMMO, a collaboration will have your little ones reciting their to coincide with the New York Comic Con. that began just days after his senior numbers