Visiting Designers

On April 23rd, Tejo Remy of Droog Design fame and his studio partner Renee Veenhuizen will be at Cranbrook to review the graduate work for my department which will be on display in the Cranbrook Art Museum and to give the annual Knoll Lecture that night.
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We were told yesterday that Maaike Evers of Mike & Maaike will be coming by Wednesday to show us some of their work and chat with us a bit. I really love their work and am excited to be able to meet her. One of the things I really appreciate about Cranbrook is how many great designers and artists visit every year.

I saw Max Lamb off at the Detroit International Airport on Saturday. I hope he left feeling satisfied with his experience working with us. I think everyone felt that they learned something new from the workshop. Each of us was to make four identical objects that consisted of only two materials that were acquired from a hardware store. Fasteners, glues, etc., would count as a material. So we had to be creative about how our objects would be assembled.
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Max Lamb is coming to visit this week! He will be giving a lecture on Tuesday night and working with us (the 3D dept) on a week-long project that will result in a show at Cranbrook’s Forum Gallery on Friday night. Should be nothing short of great! I will hopefully have some documentation to post during the week.

Claire Warner and Sam Vinz of Volume Gallery paid us a visit yesterday to explain how their gallery works. Their gallery is one of a very small handful of galleries devoted to the emerging designer. Their model is fantastic. We also talked about the limited edition process, design as art, american design(ers), getting objects made, and many other interesting topics. They were also kind enough to give feedback to many us of about our work. Thanks Claire and Sam.
More about them here http://www.wvvolumes.com/about