amdf design team meets at (contex)

ATLANTA MODERN DESIGN FESTIVAL, PORTFOLIO CENTER, (context)

Here are the lastest pics from the class session held 2/20/07 at (context), downtown Atlanta's first high-design showroom which carries Capellini and e15. Jeff and Pui, (context)'s owners, provided positvie feedback to these young but talented designer students from the Portfolio Center. Seated in Marcel Wander's New Antiques Collection for Capellini are Portfolio Center's Fernando Guerrero and Martha Gill.

atlanta modern design festival & portfolio center unite!

Portfolio Center (PC), ranked among the top design schools in the nation, will be creating the systems book for Atlanta Modern Design Festival, AMDF. PC student designers from all across the United States and overseas are presented with this unique opportunity to help create a real brand for an event on a international and elevated track that makes Atlanta a global destination for design and behavior change. PC president, Hank Richardson created a special class , under the instruction of Martha Gill and assistant Fernando Guerrero, solely devoted to the AMDF project. Deliverables for the system's book include determining color palettes, designing secondary logo intrepretations, and much more!

The project now in its 5th week has welcomed special guest who offer valuable insight and bring a different perspective for these future designers, including Milan-based architect and furniture designer, Matteo Caimi, whose firm has designed showrooms and furniture for international brands like Cassina and Poliform, and whose latest archtitecture project will be published in Interni magazine; and Stefan Kjartansson, creative director and partner with Atlanta-based Armchair Media and work has been featured in ID magazine. Armchair Media under the creative direction of Stefan, created the multi award-winning M5 website for Coca-Cola. Additionally, Stefan designed the orignal AMDF logo that PC student designers (with his kind permission) will be deconstructing.

PC/AMDF Design Team with AMDF creator Bernard McCoy (top left) and visiting quest Matteo Caimi (Italy, top right) are:
Martha Gill, Fernando Guerrrero (bottom left), Yuri Majic, Kevin Blackwell, Noah Levens, Brent Duncan, Worawan Arnunsiribavorn, Jean-Pierre Cherry.

atl:modern home tour 4.27-29.2007

2007 ATL:MOERN HOME TOUR
April 27-29, 2007
modern residential architecture
speculative houses
interior design
social mixer & kickoff party
live dj
key note speaker
products and furniture
residential model exhibition

A first for Atlanta and history making event-Atlanta's first nationally-branded tour of modern and contemporary residential architecture, ATL:Modern Home Tour will happen in April 2007!

ATL:Modern promotes design-excellence in Atlanta, and having produced two successful back to back modern home open house exhibits in 2006, the ATL:Modern Home Tour (AHT) is Atlanta's first-ever tour to focus on Atlanta's young and vibrant modern culture by showcasing modern architecture and design throughout Metro Atlanta. Unlike many of Atlanta’s home tours, AHT examines many of Atlanta’s new additions to the modern residential community, exposing you to not only the lived-in properties, but some of the most recently finished construction projects that very few have seen from the inside.
As part of AHT's hope to educate the market on Atlanta’s modern design movement, in addition to this first ever tour, AHT will expose many of Atlanta’s established and emerging architects and design/build professionals who are literally building Atlanta’s modern identity.
Look for a range of sponsors to participate and showcase their contributions to modern design, from interior designers to furniture makers and retailers. A highlight of our pre-tour experience will be a Residential Model Exhibit on display throughout select Atlanta locations.

sustainable materials and landscaping

ATL:Modern Home Tour Highlights

RME Residential Model Exhibit: Architects, designers and builders will submit a residential model for a exhibit designed to promote and highlight the Home Tour.

Opening Night Social Mixer: Friday, April 27, 7:30 -9:30pm at Context showroom in Downtown. Homeowners, volunteers, sponsors, architects/designers/builders, media and special guests will be invited to an evening of celebration. On display will be the entire RESIDENTIAL MODEL EXHIBIT. Our guest speaker will be announced at a later date.

Tour Days: The tour itself will take place on Saturday, April 28 and Sunday, April 29. It will run from 11:00-5:00 p.m. on each day.

ATL:Modern Home Tour

For ticket and general information about ATL:Modern Home Tour contact:

Bernard McCoy

bernard@atlmodern.com

404.925.8409

atlanta architecture: santiago calatrava designs atlanta symphony center

ATLANTA SYMPHONY CENTER

Project Description
Design of a new home for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, featuring a concert hall, studio hall, learning center, full back-of-house facilities and public amenities. The design must
provide a level of acoustical quality, technological support and architectural distinction worthy of the Orchestra’s renowned standing;
establish an important civic, economic and social resource in Midtown Atlanta, as part of the expansion of the campus of the Woodruff Arts Center, and for the City of Atlanta; and
create an exciting, modern symbol of the State of Georgia: a “postcard” image recognized around the world.

Symphony Center Facts

Location: Peachtree Street and 14th Street
Owner: Woodruff Arts Center
User/Client: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Design Architect/Engineer: Santiago Calatrava
Acoustician: Kirkegaard Associates, Inc.
Theatre Consultant: Auerbach Pollock Friedlanderprofile

Landscape Architect: Sasaki Associates, Inc.Alan Ward, Principal in Charge
Master Planner: Cesar Pelli & Associates
Architect of Record: Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc.
Project Size: 279,600 gross square feet, on a 3.8 acre site

Height at tallest point of enclosed building: 136 feet

Height at tallest point of structure: 186 feet
Estimated Project Cost: $300 million

Interior
Concert Hall: 34,000 sf performance and public space; 41,000 sf backstage support space; surround hall with vineyard-style seating for 2,000, able to accommodate the ASO Chorus; operable ceiling (adjustable in height from 48 feet to 104 feet above the stage) to provide variable acoustics. Studio Hall: 5,300 sf performance and public space and 3,200 sf backstage support space; seating for 300. Rehearsal Hall: 5,000 sf performance and public space and 9,000 sf backstage space (including practice and rehearsal rooms); seating for 300-350.Learning Center: 11,000 sf

Lobbies: 41,800 sf

Principal Exterior
Steel, plaster/concrete, glass; marble for public plazas

Architect, artist, and engineer Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28, 1951, in the town of Benimamet, near Valencia, Spain.

atlanta: how conference 6.10-13.2007

The HOW Design Conference is sponsored by HOW magazine, the creative and business resource for graphic designers.
Like HOW magazine, the HOW Design Conference recognizes that graphic design is a business as well as an art. We launched this annual event in 1991 with the goal of providing a hands-on, educational program to enable designers to better balance the three key components of graphic design: creativity, business and technology. Conference sessions cover a mix of these three critical design issues, with particular emphasis on creative and business topics.
Over the years, many strong design cities have hosted the Conference: Miami, Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston, Atlanta, and Washington D.C. The West Coast has been a popular venue; we've held the Conference twice in San Diego and once in Monterey and San Francisco.
Each year the HOW Design Conference recruits more than 45 speakers to address the range of concerns designers face. Past speakers include Lauralee Alben, Charles Spencer Anderson, Primo Angeli, Marshall Arisman, David Carson, Margo Chase, Joe Duffy, Milton Glaser, April Grieman, Jeffrey Keaton, Chip Kidd, Clement Mok, Jennifer Morla, Mike Salisbury, Richard Wilde and a host of others.

How Design Conference
June 10-13, 2007
Hyatt Regency
Atlanta, GA
www.howconference.com

tord boontje and target

Tord Boontje is a Dutch designer whose designs and products for Studio Tord Boontje have garnered acclaim from around the world. Based in France, his Studio creates design that is as accessible as it is enticing by employing artisan techniques with advanced technologies. As the newest designer partner for Target, he explored cues from nature, rich coloration and visual layering to create a collection of highly-detailed, lyrical objects that marry design and emotion.
His studio has developed a variety of products and furniture pieces for diverse clients including, Alexander McQueen, Moroso, Kvadrat, Swarovski, Perrier Jouet and British Airways. His work is in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Stedelijk and Groninger Museums in the Netherlands.

Boontje is Target’s first design partner to develop a creative concept that extends beyond products to include an in-store environment, packaging and the art direction of the advertising campaign. During Holiday 2006, Boontje designs will adorn all Target stores as Target launches the Studio Tord Boontje collection of more than 35 unique holiday products that unite tableware and decorations with lighting and gifts.

remove

REMOVE is/A design collective established in May 2002 by five Copenhagen furniture designers. Having five different approaches to design, Remove's individual differences strengthen their common expression which is playful, graphic and straightforward with a sense of humour. Remove's design is international in colour, material and form and at the same time Scandinavian in its sense of functionalism and simplicity. REMOVE aims at designing products that are both artistic and industrial. Remove believes in shape and proportion combined with uniqueness and originality. Remove believes in furniture that fits, but also reshapes the room that surrounds it.

HUS - furniture with a roof.

REMOVE's new furniture has a roof, but not one of those, that keeps the world out but one that keeps the intimacy in. For all the places needing a small portion of cosyness, where you wait for the train, where you eat your lunch or where drink your coffee. HUS was on display at the exhibition: Honey I'm Home, Danish Design Centre from 3rd of March till 6th of June 2006.

2007 imm-cologne

imm is the global event featuring top designers, creative newcommers, visionary interiors, fresh ideas and the latest trends. imm cologne is the unique trade fair that links international business, designbn and trends. This is where you can discover tomorrow`s home styles today.

imm cologne set new highlights for architecture, design and interior concepts with the first-time staging of its "Architecture Code Cologne" and renewed presentation of ideal houses cologne. With the no doubt exceptional and new event format, "Architecture Code Cologne" attracted great interest from designers, architects and cultural designers right from the very first day.
Entitled "The Architect and the Poet", top architect Zaha Hadid and design poet Naoto Fukasawa presented their creative ideas for the home furniture and furnishings of the future in the two ideal houses cologne. At their new location - in the northern section of the Trade Fair Boulevard which links all the exhibition halls - the large red cubes, which are the trademark of the "ideal houses", became an integral part of the very lively, busy North-South axis thus ensuring controversial and stimulating discussions among the visitors and journalists.
An exciting contrast to the exhibitors' home furniture and furnishings concepts was provided by the creative home furnishings ideas presented by young designers in the [d3] design talents sector. There, with inspired by cologne, future point and "NRG" (energy) - three exclusive events provided interested visitors with innovative solutions for the future of design.