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Allan Chochinov at the Foundry

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)

Cohoes, NY

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The Living Principles for Design, Mohawk Fine Papers and the Upstate NY Chapter of AIGA Present:

 

Allan Chochinov: At Your Service? From the Presumptions of Design to the Products of Design

 

 

Wednesday November 30, 2011 :: 7pm

 

The Foundry for Art Design + Culture

119 Remsen Street, Cohoes NY 12047

 

 

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FREE with non-perishable food item to benefit the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY 

PLEASE Register in advance 

 

 

About the event: 

From aesthetics and utility to sustainability and value, the intentions of most designers are too often distorted through the presumptions they hold around what they’re supposed to be providing and to whom they’re providing it. Rather than a group of practitioners in the service of industry, designers need to see themselves as connective tissue—translating between stakeholders, reframing problems, revealing opportunities and championing change. It is through scale that they wield their might and earn their keep, and that’s what makes them both powerful and dangerous. Design is now seen as a strategic global resource, enabling innovative brands and companies to compete more effectively. There has to be more to it than that.

 

About the speaker:

Allan Chochinov is a partner of Core77, a New York-based design network serving a global community of designers and design enthusiasts, and chair of the new MFA in Products of Design graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Chochinov lectures around the world and at professional conferences including IDSA, AIGA and IxDA, has been a guest critic at various design schools in including Yale University, NYU, IIT, Carnegie Mellon, Ravensbourne, RMIT, University of Minnesota, RIT, Emily Carr and RISD. He has moderated and led workshops and symposia at the Aspen Design Conference, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Compost Modern and Winterhouse, and is a frequent design competition juror. Prior to Core77, his work in product design focused on the medical, surgical and diagnostic fields, as well as on consumer products and workplace systems. He has been named on numerous design and utility patents and has received awards from The Art Directors Club, I.D. magazine, Communication Arts and The One Club.

 


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The Foundry for Art Design + Culture
119 Remsen Street
Cohoes, NY 12047

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)


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AIGA's mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.

AIGA, the professional association for design, is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice. AIGA sets the national agenda for the role of design in its economic, social, political, cultural and creative contexts. AIGA is the oldest and largest membership association for professionals engaged in the discipline, practice and culture of designing. Founded as the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1914 as a small, exclusive club, AIGA now represents more than 19,000 designers through national activities and local programs developed by more than 55 chapters and 200 student groups.