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Parking space as commentary at Art Center’s Hillside Campus
Literal street art alert! Leave it to the pavement at Pasadena’s Art Center to get all sassy on us. Some faculty and staff parking spots at the Hillside Campus have new, playfully irreverent descriptors attached today. “Cat lady,” “jaunty,” “balding,” … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Art Center, fun, Hillside Campus, mission, mystery, parking lot, Pasadena, project, spaces, strategic plan, street art, too cool for school
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Pasadena-based Sleepypod lets the fur fly in comfortable style
Tweet Just in time for the holiday travel season, today’s Star-News business section features a story on a Pasadena company’s recent innovation for flying the pet-friendly skies. Sleepypod’s Air carrier, which has been racking up honors from various pet-lifestyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, airline, Art Center, cabin, carrier, cat, Crater Dot, design, dog, gift, holidays, Pasadena, pet, pets, plane, shopping, Sleepypod, travel
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Curious worlds apart: Dual exhibits at Art Center’s Williamson Gallery in Pasadena
The exhibitions are dual: One looking back at the fascinating domain of patent models in the 1800s, the other looking forward to the future of objects conceived on computers and sprouted up by machines. One revolution has already changed the … Continue reading
Lecture and tour: Lloyd Wright, architect of sunshine and shadow
Architectural historian and writer Dana Hutt reconstructs in a May 1 lecture the story of Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank Lloyd, who moved to Los Angeles before his father had even built his first structure in the city. The … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Art Center, Dana Hutt, design, Gamble House, home tour, Lloyd Wright, Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series
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Design Revolution Road Show rolls through Art Center
>>THINK The Design Revolution Road Show that will be rolling through the Art Center College of Design campus on Monday has an agenda, and the 40 objects it’s bringing in tow help make a convincing case: good design solves problems. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Center, design, Design Revolution Road Show, Designmatters, exhibition, GOOD, Hippo Roller, party
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Beauty in common: Roses and the Arts and Crafts movement
>>GO Hot Cocoa, Strike It Rich, About Face and Betty Boop. Feel free to judge a rose by its name — yes, those names above really belong to rose varietals — when rose hybrid master Tom Carruth delivers an illuminating … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Center, Arts and Crafts, city of roses, Craftsman, Gamble House, gardening, hybrid, lecture series, rose, Tom Carruth
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Fashion weekend: Sinking ships and Betsy Bloomingdale
>>GO The Sidney D. Gamble Lecture Series opens its 2009-2010 season tomorrow with two fashion-oriented engagements. At 10 a.m., Kevin Jones — curator of the museum at downtown’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising — will speak at Art Center … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Center, Betsy Bloomingdale, Bloomingdale's, couture, designer, fashion, FIDM, Gamble House, haute couture, Kevin Jones, lecture series, museum, Titanic
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That’s genius: Art Center students turn symphony experience on its ear
Open publication – Free publishing – More torrance >>THINK Art Center College of Design students have been thinking a lot lately about how to give the Pasadena symphony-going experience a fresh, visionary appeal. Students in Mikio Osaki’s “The Agency” advertising … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, Art Center, culture, design, marketing, music, Pasadena Symphony, symphony
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Promise of creation at Art Center’s summer graduation showcase
>>THINK (Above, photo courtesy Crystal Jean Photography / Art Center College of Design (c) 2009) Last week we attended the Thursday-night graduation show preview at Art Center College of Design to get a glimpse of some of the work being … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Art Center, design, graduation, illustration, preview
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