top: an opening of "design for a living world" at the cooper hewitt national design museum in new york. i started interning at the tail end of this project (an abbott and ellen joint effort) but it was still pretty cool to see all of the stuff i saw them scheming at the studio in realized form. because they intend for the exhibition to travel, everything is modular, but still fits perfectly into the gallery space. (there are more pictures on the pentagram blog.)
middle: the international contemporary furniture fair at jacob javits convention center. one of kallie's environmental design teachers kept bugging her to go to this, so a few of us decided to make a day of it and tag along. the first thing we saw getting off the escalator was a vitra display featuring my favorite chairs. everything else was just as cool. mica had a booth (situated among displays from cranbrook and pratt) that offered really forward thinking solutions for urban food shopping/farming and packaging.
bottom: photos from mica's commencement exhibition. the entire campus pretty much turns into a gallery and each graduating senior gets space set aside to show their theisis. usually undergrads are long gone before stuff gets installed, so it was important for me to make it back to baltimore and get a feel for what i'm in for. (in just two years... scary.) the work there ran the gammut, as expected. (i actually think the rubber banded brick on fourth floor brown was my favorite.) but overall, i felt like the people that actually understood "thesis" were few and far between ...so i guess it was worth seeing just to know that my graduating class should seriously step up its game.
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