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>Wed, Feb 12, 2020 / How better street design can save lives and cities: Liza Burkin
The world is rapidly urbanizing, with more people than ever before living in and moving to cities. As a result, mobility, traffic congestion, and public safety are primary problems for designers, engineers, urban planners, city leaders, and everyday citizens to solve. Examples from around the world show how smarter street design leads to better health, safety, economic, and environmental outcomes â€“ not only for individuals, but for urban societies as a whole. Come learn about street design and current efforts to implement these types of projects in Providence!

Our Streets Providence is a local alliance of nonprofits, businesses, schools, and individuals advocating for safer streets and more transportation choices in Providence and beyond.

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>Wed, Dec 11, 2019 / 2019 Holiday Party: Come celebrate the end of the decade with us
Itâ€™s that time of year again. Grab your sweaters and stripes and come celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with us.

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5â€”9PM at The Design Office
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>Sat, Dec 07, 2019 / feeeels magazine launch: Come celebrate issue 1
The D.O. is hosting the launch of Feeeels Magazine. The inaugural issue presents 25 emerging and established artists, designers, and writers, many of whom are based in Providence. The launch event will celebrate the work of issue oneâ€™s diverse contributors, the support of our advisory board members and sponsors, and the arrival of our print publication! Come meet the team, see the issue (buy one!) and celebrate the launch.

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7PM at The Design Office
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>Thu, Nov 21, 2019 / X things from XXXI: Elie, Jacob and Jake of NYCâ€™s XXXI show us 10 things that they love about independent graphic design
XXXI is a work and project space in New York City run by RISD GD BFA 2015 alum Elie Anderson, Jacob Heftmann (teaches in Masters program at Parsons) and Jake Hobart (teaches at Pratt). XXXI started @telier which is a workspace exchange hosted by small-scale designer owned workspaces (weâ€™re in it!).

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6:30â€“8PM at The Design Office
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>Thu, Jun 27, 2019 / Latent Space: Notes on Seeing Letters Like a Machine: On Seeing Letters Like a Machine
If you gave 33,600 images of letters to a machine, how would it organize them? What sense would it devise? Would its organization of letterforms look anything like our own? In a collaboration sited at the intersection of art, engineering, and communication design, Federico PÃ©rez Villoro, Nic Schumann, and Marie Otsuka set out on a journey to investigate these questions and more in their recent publication Latent Space: Notes on Seeing Letters Like a Machine. In this talk, they share what they learned.

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>Mon, Mar 11, 2019 / Type from functionality to aesthetics and everything in-between
Finding the right balance between functionality and aesthetics is an essential aspect of good type design. Exploring the relationship between them is a self-rewarding process that often seems challenging and delicate. Type designers Gen Ramirez and Zrinka BuljubaÅ¡iÄ‡ will be sharing an overview of their design process with two different but in essence similar approaches â€” one delves into purpose and another into the pursuit of expression.

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>Sat, Mar 16, 2019 / Reading Club: A group to encourage reading and critical discussion
At a time of political instability â€“ one characterized by torrents of tweets and click-bate news stories â€“ Reading Club provides an opportunity for DO members and guests to slow down and â€œthink through crisisâ€ together. If you would like to join the reading club, email the organizer, Melissa Weiss, at reading@thedesignoffice.org

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>Fri, Dec 07, 2018 / Holiday Party 2018: Join us

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>Tue, Nov 13, 2018 / Polish Book Design: Jacek Mrowczyk
How was the craft of typesetting shaped in the Republic of Poland? Where and under what circumstances did the first Cyrillic print come to being? What was the typography of a country known mainly for its poster after WWII? Which of the Polish graphic designers was a member of the Double Crown Club â€“ the London based typographic society? Find the answers in the lecture presented by Jacek Mrowczyk, the editor of the book VeryGraphic: Polish Designers of the 20th Century, which is the first comprehensive overview of the graphic design made in Poland in the past century.

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>Wed, Jun 06, 2018 / Cardkits: Anther Kiley seeks feedback mid-project
Anther Kiley, D.O. summer 2018 fellow, will show prototypes and talk about the genesis and trajectory of Cardkits â€” an in-progress line of paper toys. He’ll be soliciting design and strategy advice. Open to all.

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>Thu, Apr 26, 2018 / Mars vs. the Moon: Erica Jawin on the future of humans in space
Erica Jawin, PhD candidate (Brown DEEPS), talks about her research and methods on data collection and what this means for the future of human exploration and space travel.

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>Thu, Mar 29, 2018 / Kelli Miller: And/Or
Kelli Miller is a co-founder and executive creative director of And/Or, a Brooklyn-based creative studio fueled by deep thoughts, bold vision and choice words. Kelli has worked in motion design and branding for over 15 years with networks like MTV, truTV, Nickelodeon, BBC, and Comedy Central. Her work has been featured on Comm Arts, Art of the Title, Itâ€™s Nice That, and Fast Company. In 2016 she directed the rebrand of truTV, positioning the brand as a new leader in creator-driven comedy. She has designed and directed film and tv titles for Elisabeth Subrinâ€™s A Woman, A Part, Kelly Reichardtâ€™s Certain Women and the HBO comedy series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. She is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and has taught and lectured at the College for Creative Studies, Pratt, NYU, SVA, Yale and RISD.

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More on And/Or

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>Thu, Mar 15, 2018 / My Tran: Motion Graphics Designer
Tran was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship and earned her bachelorâ€™s degree at Grand Valley State University. Since 2007, she has designed for many high profile clients including Toyota, Nike, ESPN, Hyundai, Sony, and Apple. Her first short documentary piece, 40 Years Young, was featured in the 2014 Asian American International Film Festival NYC. Most recently, My Tran was apart of the design team behind the Emmy Award winning titles for Netflixâ€™s Stranger Things. In her spare time, she enjoys woodworking and welding for her furniture designs as well as rock climbing.

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See My Tran’s work

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>Tue, Feb 27, 2018 / Design Ã— RI Clambake: Free & Open
Clambake is a gathering for designers, creatives, and those who like design and want to know more. Itâ€™s a time to get together, network, and hear about some of the cool new design work that is happening in RI. Two presenters from two different design disciplines present each month. Presentations are generally 15 minutes followed by Q&A.

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>Sat, Dec 02, 2017 / 10-year Anniversary Party: Drinks, food and cheer
Join us to celebrate ten years as a “thing”. Holiday-esque snacks and adult beverages. Kids welcome provided they place nice with books and phone booths. Open to all.

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>Thu, Sep 28, 2017 / Sam Potts: How to switch careers 4 or 5 times
Former textbook editor, former book designer then independent graphic designer, one-time resident of Chengdu (P.R. China), ex-IDEOer, temporary Angeleno, bicycle framebuilder (hobbyist), newly minted east sider Sam Potts will describe how a nonlinear career path yields a necessarily adaptive and inclusive approach to design work and how you have to have cooks in the kitchen (or else it’s not a kitchen).

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>Tue, Sep 19, 2017 / Creating a Culture of Collaboration: DesignWeek RI
Collaboration is fundamental to the design process: from working with clients and vendors to finding creative partners. The Design Office is a group of small design firms and independent practitioners who share space and support each otherâ€™s work. Members have different areas of expertise and work with a wide variety of clients while also pushing the boundaries of their practice through uncommissioned projects. The group has collaborated on a number of projects over the years that have explored rethinking cultural identity, finding common ground, expanding boundaries, and finding clarity in complexity.

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>Mon, May 15, 2017 / Mary Beth Meehan: On her public portraits, â€œSeen / Unseenâ€
Simultaneously overpowering and intimate, Mary Beth Meehan’s urban portraits give us an opportunity to see each other. The vertical-sized billboards elevate her fellow Americans onto the sides of buildings throughout downtown Providence. A print of Bidur, pictured below, was added recently to the series. Weâ€™ve asked fellow photographers Josephine Sittenfeld and Thad Russell to moderate a discussion with Mary Beth about the project, public art, the state of photography in Providence, and wherever else the conversation leads. Please join us.

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>Thu, Apr 13, 2017 / Daniel Perlin: How listening can be a strategy for design
By looking at a few recent projects, Experience Designer Daniel Perlin will take a look at some approaches to designing for listening to users and designing to help users listen to each other. How do we listen? Why? When? To Whom? What do we listen to? What listens to us? How can we listen better? Should we listen? What do drones listen to? What does AI listen to? What do we hear when we listen to data? Does data speak? What is social listening? What are the politics of listening? How do we change our listening? How can we get others to listen better, more, to each other? Can we listen to make good?

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>Fri, Apr 07, 2017 / Project 258 Book Launch: Join the book team and restaurant owners
Join the authors, restaurant owners and book designer to celebrate and discuss their newly released book, Project 258: Making Dinner at Fish & Game. Part cookbook and part guidebook, the book is soulful, useful, funny, and utterly unique â€” a visually rich document of the ingredients, techniques, and collaborators at the heart of a well-respected Hudson Valley restaurant.

5:30â€“6:30pm Taste wine from Zev Rovine Selections with appetizers from Fish & Game and oysters from Matunuck
6:30â€“7pm Conversation about the book with the authors and book designer
7â€“7:30pm Signing and mingling with authors and guests

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>Thu, Mar 23, 2017 / Jennet Liaw: Letterer and designer at Nike
Jennet Liaw is a Nike Sportswear apparel designer, who moonlights as an independent illustrator and graphic artist. When not creating full-time for the swoosh, her experience designing brand identities, screen titles, and print direction for a client list that includes Fox, Sony Pictures, and Apple Inc., have shaped her career as a freelance designer. In particular, her personal projects in the realm of typography and punmanship have earned her recognition with AIGA and features with Cosmopolitan, CommunicationArts, and TED.

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See Jennet’s website

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>Thu, Mar 09, 2017 / Leta Sobierajski: Independent designer and art director
Leta Sobierajski is an independent designer and art director based in New York City combining traditional graphic design elements with photography, art, and styling to create utterly unique visuals. Her work is incredibly diverse, ranging from conventional identities to brilliantly bizarre compositions. As of October 2016, Leta began a design studio with her husband and collaborator, Wade Jeffree. She is also an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts. She studied graphic design at Purchase College and has been working independently since 2013. She has been recognized by Print Magazine for its annual New Visual Artists Review, selecting 20 international designers under the age of 30. Leta Sobierajski’s work has attracted coverage from the likes of Cool Hunting, DesignBoom, IdN, It’s Nice That, Refinery29, and the New York Times T Style Magazine.

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See Leta’s website

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>Tue, Jan 24, 2017 / Young Designer Showcase: Graduating seniors from R.I.C. show off their work
Come see some of the projects done by graduating seniors from Rhode Island Collegeâ€™s Graphic Design program. Jason Pamental taught the class last semester, and has invited the students to come and show off their work (both print-based and interactive). See some great work and help welcome some of the newest members of the Providence design community.

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>Thu, Dec 08, 2016 / Holiday Party 2016: Come connect with new friends and old. 5â€“8pm
We at the D.O. are more grateful than ever for the local design community. Itâ€™s been a vocal and principled groupÂ in these last few weeks and thereâ€™s more work to be done together in the coming year.Â Weâ€™ll supplyÂ drinks, appetizers, some recent work to peruse (or take), and the opportunity to connect with new friends and old. Bring some guests, invite others.Â

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>Tue, Oct 25, 2016 / UX Design for Brains: Letâ€™s Be Honest, People Suck: Marissa Epstein
UX Designer Marissa Epstein *really* loves learning what makes people tick. Traditional psych studies can show us a lot about our users and the weird flaws that come with being human. Itâ€™s not our fault that weâ€™re emotional, impulsive, forgetful, and hard-wired to take the easy way out. But it is our responsibility to adapt to these shortcomings as interaction designers.

In this session, Marissa will use fundamental principles of cognitive and behavioral psychology to show you how humans think, behave, and experience the world. And sheâ€™ll probably rant a little.

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>Thu, Aug 25, 2016 / Uncommissioned: Member projects made outside the commission
“Uncommissioned” is the Design Office’s first-ever one-night exhibition of our behind-the-scenes passion projects, side pursuits, and collaborations. Please join us downstairs on the second floor at RISD ExposÃ©!

See all the pix from the event

Microsite at uncommissioned.thedesignoffice.org

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5â€“9PM at RISD ExposÃ©, 204 Westminster, Floor 2
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>Sat, May 21, 2016 / In Through the Outside: Stops on a Journey in Book Design: Organized by AIGA RI
Alex Camlin â€“ creative director at Da Capo Press in Boston, and Designer for Harvard Review â€“ will talk with AIGA Rhode Island about his work. His award-winning book and cover designs have been included in AIGA’s 50 Books 50 Covers, the Print Regional Design Annual, and the New York and New England Book Shows. More on Alex at alexcamlin.com

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11AM-1PM at The Design Office
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>Thu, May 12, 2016 / Pop-Up Market: Member and non-member products for sale
Small-batch goods fill a unique space in an age of simultaneous physical overabundance and mass digitization. The Design Office is hosting a pop-up Market, where members and friends can sell directly to the public, celebrating local distribution of well-made goods. Come talk with our Providence-based designers and bring cash!

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>Tue, May 10, 2016 / Defining Our Profession, Defining Ourselves: Margot Bloomstein
Whatâ€™s in a nameâ€”and does it constrain or empower us? As â€œcontent strategyâ€ evolves as an industry, so too do the areas of expertise practitioners offer and our clients expect. Letâ€™s talk about how we grapple with terminology within the broader UX landscape to broaden our professions without sacrificing relevance. Weâ€™ll discuss the responsibility and opportunity in how we define our industry and the areas of specialty it can comprise.

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>Tue, Mar 22, 2016 / Coryndon Luxmoore: Presentation on scaling empathy with personas
Some see Coryndon speak talk about “Scaling empathy with personas.” What Coryndon has learned over the last few years is that personas donâ€™t have to be fake windsurfing grandmaâ€™s. They can transform big data into easy to understand composite customers that will allow you to scale your understanding of the customer across the design team and a growing company.

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>Wed, Dec 09, 2015 / Holiday Party: Celebrate diversity, togetherness, and all the work thatâ€™s happened here in 2015
Please join us in celebrating diversity, togetherness, and all the work thatâ€™s happened here in 2015.

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>Tue, Sep 15, 2015 / Making & Breaking Type in Bombay: Catherine Leigh Schmidt reports back from India
Catherine Leigh Schmidt (RISD BFA 2014) spent the past year in India studying typography as a Fulbright-Nehru student researcher. Based in Bombay, she focused on the changing typographic landscape of Hindi transportation signs in the city. Through a comparison between old and new signage systems she investigated how typography can be ideological. Her inquiry lead to a Hindi typeface based on hand-painted letterforms.

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>Tue, May 26, 2015 / How to make interfaces that our brains understand: Calvin Arterberry
Interface designer Calvin Arterberry will give a 20-minute presentation titled â€œHow to make interfaces that our brains understand.â€ Followed by a 15-minute guided discussion on how human visual perception theory and research can guide user interface development.

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>Wed, May 13, 2015 / Pawsox Ballpark Forum: Jim Skeffington will be here to field questions
We are bringing the voice of the creative community to the Pawsox development group at this open forum. We hope to have a critical and respectful discussion about the cultural, economic, and urban impacts that the proposed ballpark could have.

Pawtucket Red Sox team president Jim Skeffington will present the ballpark proposal, and then take questions. We will be moderating the discussion and keeping minutes.

More on the proposal at the Pawsox Ballpark website

RIPR article that covers the basics of the situation.

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>Mon, May 11, 2015 / ffabschrifting: Reading and exhibit about the design of language
ffabschrift, verb; from the Swedish [fab]rikat, to make; and the German [schrift], to write.

The students and teachers in the RISD course â€œShaping Languageâ€ have spent the semester exploring aspects of ffabschrifting, a dialogic and simultaneous making and writing activity. We invite the public to engage with us in a reading, a presentation, an exhibit, and a conversation about the writer/designerâ€™s relationship to writing and shaping language. Come and share in an evening of wine, treats, words, forms, and ffabschrifting.

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>Mon, Apr 06, 2015 / Small Stuff: Joe Marianek & Dinah Fried
Spend an evening with Joe Marianek and Dinah Fried, RISD adjunct faculty and partners of the NYC design firm, Small Stuff. You will not only see their work from Apple, Pentagram, RISD and as part of their new venture â€“ which includes beer can packaging 😉 â€“ but you will help them organize their stuff into a temporary website.

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>Mon, Mar 16, 2015 / Ryan, Gary & Phil: Waller, Fogelson and Lubliner of Other Means
Ryan Waller, Gary Fogelson and Phil Lubliner, partners of the studio Other Means, will show off their design work with museums, cultural institutions and as educators. Given they don’t maintain a web portfolio, this event provides a chance to see their work and meet the principals. Illustration by Other Means.

Runs until 8pm. Drinks & snacks provided.

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>Tue, Feb 24, 2015 / Data Analysis for Designers: Dan McDonough at the Providence UX Meetup
A brief introduction to design testing using statistical analysis. Topics covered will include how and why to test, common testing methodologies, proper test design, how to avoid common pitfalls and a review of popular testing tools. A bibliography will be available. Talk is by Dan McDonough. Dan is the Director of Interactive Services at Cogo Labs, a Cambridge, Massachusetts tech incubator.The event is organized by the Providence UX Meetup.

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>Sun, Dec 14, 2014 / Holiday Party: Food, friends, families, lights...
Food, friends, families, fun, lights, music, drinks, snacks, booze, pink zebras, holiday cheer and an assortment of D.O. members will all be on hand. And you. We’re appreciative to our collaborators, clients, guests and the greater community for being a part of the D.O. in 2014. As a thank you, we’ve designed some holiday cards for you to take. No need to RSVP. Invite by Lucinda Hitchcock and Sarah Rainwater.

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>Tue, Dec 09, 2014 / Juliette Cezzar: Thereâ€™s No Such Thing as Print vs Digital
What role does the designer play now in the transmission, distribution, and preservation of ideas? How are we communicating with each other about the ideas we have about our own discipline? Is there really any such thing as “print vs digitalâ€? What is graphic design anyway? Juliette Cezzar will take us through a series of provocations about design, education, and publishing, followed by a public conversation. Juliette recently authored a new definition for graphic design for AIGA and co-authored Designing the Editorial Experience, which advocates for and demonstrates new thinking in periodical publishing.

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>Tue, Nov 04, 2014 / Richard Lipton: The Making of Bickham Script
Richard Liptonâ€™s Bickham Script is a flowing, formal script born out of an inspiration to recreate the lettering of 18th century English writing masters as rendered in the magnificent copperplate engravings of George Bickham. This talk will cover the seeds of Liptonâ€™s experience with Bickham’s The Universal Penman, his approach to such an ambitious project, and his thoughts on the use of OpenType font technology and features to achieve the goal of bringing Bickham’s work to practical life.

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>Thu, Oct 16, 2014 / Chris Novello: â€˜Computer Utopiasâ€™
Chris Novello is a programmer and designer. He has backgrounds in sound, HCI, videogames, viral media, and critical design. He teaches in the Graduate Program in RISD Graphic Design and holds an MFA from Brown University. He was the D.O. Summer Fellow for 2014.

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>Tue, Oct 14, 2014 / Phone Booth Launch: Come meet the latest addition to the space
The Design Office is a constantly evolving entity — the space stays vibrant and vital by responding deftly to the needs of its members. The Phone Booth is a response to the need for a individual compartment housing phone calls, skype meetings, and quiet respite. Join us as we discuss the intention, design, and construction of the Booth, and then give it its proper welcome to the space.

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>Fri, Oct 10, 2014 / James Goggin: Pop Culture Colour Theoryâ€¨
James Goggin’s, “Pop Culture Colour Theory” lecture is an ongoing, continually evolving project that explores humankindâ€™s attempts at codifying and commodifying the ethereal and infinite intangibility of colour. From video test patterns to International Klein Blue, the Pantone Matching System to the Homeland Security Advisory System, colour is endlessly refracted by our subjective perceptions into adaptable structures and dialects.

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>Wed, Sep 24, 2014 / Open House: DesignWeekRI Open Firms night
Take a look at what’s happening in the space and take house-made Risograph prints with you. Part of DesignWeekRI.

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>Tue, Sep 23, 2014 / Jason Pamental: Jason Pamental at the UX Meetup
This month’s UX Meetup features Jason Pamental on Responsive Typography. Jason Pamental has worked on the web since 1994. With a background in design and an intimate understanding of technology and its application on the web, he has led creative and technical teams for NFL and Americaâ€™s Cup teams, Fortune 25 and technology corporations and many other clients, serving in both creative and technical roles. A passionate advocate of web standards and accessibility, Jason embraces new developments in web typography and responsive design as the next logical evolution in usability, search and maintenance of complex web systems.

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>Fri, Sep 19, 2014 / Re: So: Make prints for the Open House (Members only)
Learn how to use the Riso Duplicator machine and make prints together with your Officemates. Come with print-ready designs, and we’ll see what we can print in the 2 hour span. Members Only. Led by Ben, no RSVP necessary. Paper and materials supplied

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>Tue, Jul 22, 2014 / Zak Jensen: Recent work at the Harvard Art Museums
Zak Jensen is Senior Designer at Harvard Art Museums and lives in Cambridge, Mass. He’ll share some recent projects from the museums and talk about what’s ahead as they prepare to open on November 16. Beer, snacks and air-conditioning provided.

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>Tue, Jun 24, 2014 / UX Meetup: Marissa Epstein on Making It Work (Hackathon Fundamentals)
Think about that great idea you have, for a product or company, that you havenâ€™t built yet. If you have trouble making progress, maybe a hackathon is what you need.

Learn about how you can (and why you should) harness these fast-paced, competitive events to push forward both your ideas and yourself. Marissa shares her experiences from past hackathons, and what you should know before attending a hackathon of your own.

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>Tue, Mar 25, 2014 / UX Meetup: Baruch Sachs and The UX of Data
This presentation of Providence’s UX Meetup will feature Baruch Sachs on the UX of Data: How Large Enterprises View Data and the UX Challenge.

Consumer applications are driving expectations that companies have around both their internal and external applications. While this is generally viewed as a good thing, the data model that most large enterprises work within create extremely complicated, data -driven applications that often present all the data anyone would ever need, often at the expense of world class user interaction. Go behind the scenes with how these business operate and learn effective techniques for breaking this data model and have it work for good UX, vs against it.

Please note we will be starting a bit early with doors at 6 and the talk starting at 6:15.

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>Tue, Mar 25, 2014 / Walker Insights Lecture Series: Henrik Nygran
The Design Office will be partnering with AIGA RI to hold a screening for the 2014 Walker Insights lectures series. Insights is an annual collection of talks given by graphic designers from around the world to share their histories, methods, and philosophies developed during their careers.

Each lecture is open to the public and begins at 8pm, doors open at 7:30.

3-4-14 Henrik Nygren

From the Walker’s website:
There is an effortless simplicity to Henrik Nygrenâ€™s work, a Scandinavian modernism that stands in counterpoint to the excess of most visual communication today. His art direction of Stockholm New magazine in the 1990s presaged a global return to restrained typographic palettes and bold photo editorial direction in publications. As Swedenâ€™s premier graphic designer, Nygren has helmed his own studio for more than 20 years, working in the fields of book design, exhibition design, identity and branding, packaging, and communications. His practice caters to cultural organizations such as the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet MalmÃ¶, the Hasselblad Center, and Phaidon books. Among many other awards, he was the recipient of the 2007 Platinum Egg and Berling Awards, and his work has been exhibited in Tokyo and Sweden. As an educator, he has had a profound impact on the Swedish design scene, teaching at Beckmans College of Design (Stockholm), Berghs School of â€¨Communication (Stockholm), the Swedish School of Arts, Crafts and Design (Gothenburg) and Forsbergs School of Design (Stockholm) since 1992. An 896-page monograph surveying the past 25 years of his award-winning work will be published in 2014 by Orosdi-Back.
Copresented by the Walker Art Center, AIGA Minnesota, and the American Swedish Institute.

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>Tue, Mar 18, 2014 / Walker Insights Lecture Series: Martine Syms
The Design Office will be partnering with AIGA RI to hold a screening for the 2014 Walker Insights lectures series. Insights is an annual collection of talks given by graphic designers from around the world to share their histories, methods, and philosophies developed during their careers.

Each lecture is open to the public and begins at 8pm, doors open at 7:30.

3-18-14 Martine Syms

From the Walker’s website:
LA-based Martine Syms is many thingsâ€”a graphic designer, a â€œconceptual entrepreneur,â€ a net artistâ€”but most importantly, a thinker who examines the assumptions of contemporary America and ways that identity and memory are transformed by the shifting boundaries of business and culture. Her work explores themes as varied as Afrofuturism, queer theory, the power of language, and the spiritual nature of the color purple. The topic of her recent SXSW presentation, â€œBlack Vernacular: Reading New Media Art,â€ asked the questions: â€œWhat does it mean for a black woman to make minimal, masculine net art? What about this piece is â€˜not blackâ€™? Can my identity be expressed as an aesthetic quality?â€ From 2007 to 2011, Syms was codirector of the influential Golden Age project space in Chicago, where she organized dozens of cultural projects and initiated a publishing program of young, emerging artists. She has collaborated with artists Paul Chan and Theaster Gates, created web design for fashion retailer Nasty Gal, created a branding and marketing strategy for nonprofit group Summer Forum for Inquiry + Exchange, and runs Dominica Publishing in her spare time. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the New Museum (New York), MCA Chicago, Capricious Space (Brooklyn), and the Soap Factory (Minneapolis). Syms is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a degree in Film, Video, and New Media. In her new Insights talk â€œBlack Vernacular: Lessons of the Tradition,â€ Syms will describe her connection with the black radical tradition, using poet Kevin Youngâ€™s ideas as a framework to understand her own design practice and strategies of code-switching.

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>Mon, Mar 17, 2014 / Library of the Printed Web: Launch & discussion
Join us for the Providence launch of Printed Web #1, a publication devoted to web-to-print art and discourse. The 64-page newsprint features new work by artists who use screen capture, image grab and site scrape to collect and transform digital information â€“ visual and otherwise â€“ into analog experience. Issue contributors Clement Valla and Benjamin Shaykin will join publisher Paul Soulellis in a discussion about the issue, and more generally about the idea of an artistâ€™s web-to-print practice.

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>Tue, Mar 11, 2014 / Walker Insights Lecture Series: Sara de Bondt
The Design Office will be partnering with AIGA RI to hold a screening for the 2014 Walker Insights lectures series. Insights is an annual collection of talks given by graphic designers from around the world to share their histories, methods, and philosophies developed during their careers.

Each lecture is open to the public and begins at 8pm, doors open at 7:30.

3-11-14 Sara de Bondt

From the Walker’s website:
Sara De Bondt is the epitome of a cultural designer, combining a love of contemporary typography with a deep investigation into the history of graphic design. Through her design practice, which consists of client-based work, designing and editing books, and curating conferences, she is consistently contributing to the critical discourse. Her playful aesthetic is always idea-based, typography-driven, and completely fresh. Her clients include the Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels and Nottingham Contemporary as well as projects for the V&A, the Barbican, Londonâ€™s Institute of Contemporary Arts, Camden Arts Center, and MIT Press. Most recently, she took over the art direction of Tate Etc. magazine. In 2008, De Bondt cofounded Occasional Papers, a nonprofit publishing house investigating the histories of architecture, art, design, film, and literature. In 2009, she curated the conference the Form of the Book, which explored the past, present, and future of book design. She received her MFA from Sint-Lukas, Brussels, and completed postgraduate research at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Prior to opening her own studio in 2004, De Bondt worked for Daniel Eatockâ€™s Foundation 33 in London. She has taught design at the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and KASK School of Art.

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>Mon, Mar 10, 2014 / Peter Hall: Roundtable discussion
Join us, with Peter Hall (mapping expert, professor, theorist, design critic, author), for an evening roundtable conversation about maps, mapping and graphic design hosted by the Design Office. Conversation mediated by Lucinda Hitchcock and members of the RISD GD faculty. Peter Hall is a design writer whose research focuses on mapping as a design process. Learn more at peterahall.com

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>Tue, Mar 04, 2014 / Walker Insights Lecture Series: Lance Wyman
The Design Office will be partnering with AIGA RI to hold a screening for the 2014 Walker Insights lectures series. Insights is an annual collection of talks given by graphic designers from around the world to share their histories, methods, and philosophies developed during their careers.

Each lecture is open to the public and begins at 8pm, doors open at 7:30.

3-4-14 Lance Wyman

From the Walker’s website:
When combined, the art of branding and the science of wayfinding design can profoundly transform a space.Â Lance WymanÂ is a humble master of designing massive systems for cities, airports, expos, transit systems, zoos, and museums over his more than 40-year career. In the process, Wyman helped to define the field of environmental graphics. His iconic identity for the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympicsâ€”â€œâ€™60s op-art kinetic typography,â€ as Wyman calls itâ€”exists as a pinnacle of environmental and branding design and was credited with reintroducing Mexican visual culture back into the nationâ€™s design vocabulary. Other projects include the Washington DC Metro map, the identity for the 1970 FIFA World Cup, the 1980 Minnesota Zoo identity (which was selected as one of the 10 best designs of the year byÂ TimeÂ magazine), and projects for the Library of Congress, Jeddah International Airport, Chrysler Worldâ€™s Fair, and the Aspen Design Conference. His work has been exhibited in museums around the world and is also in the collection of MoMA (New York). Wyman has taught corporate and wayfinding design at Parsons since 1973. Donâ€™t miss your chance to hear from this legendaryÂ designer.

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>Thu, Jan 30, 2014 / Clambake: Gathering and talks by Erik Carlson and Joe Haskett
Clambake is a monthly gathering with inspirational talks by and for those interested in design. This month it’s being held at the D.O. with talks by Erik Carlson and Joe Haskett.

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>Tue, Jan 28, 2014 / UX Meetup: Adobe Muse as a Prototyping Tool
Chris MacDonald will be giving a general overview of how to use Muse to prototype ideasâ€“without writing code. Learn how to build working prototypes .(even full websites) in a few hours not days and how you can use Muse as a rapid iteration tool for Interaction Design, UI Design and UX Design.

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>Sun, Jan 26, 2014 / Paper Bowl II: 2nd Annual
This year, the workshop and tournament will be combined into one event: Paper Bowl II. We’ll detach from the demands of the workweek and break in our new laser printer with wild and fanciful formmaking based on the themes of “paper football” (which also relates to 1970s/80s football). Then, we play.

Download the official game ball template and practice

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>Thu, Dec 12, 2013 / Holiday Party: Join us from 5-8p to celebrate the year
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>Thu, Nov 07, 2013 / Greg Nemes: Greg Nemes introduces Work-Shop (Members only)
Greg Nemes will introduce his new venture, Work-Shop â€” a research, design and digital fabrication studio in Providence. The work presented will include a preliminary website, located at work-shop.ws, and branding studies. The challenge is to represent a wide range of work and interests in digital design and fabrication, as well as commitment to community, discourse, and pedagogy. How will we communicate its position in the locality of Providence and the design community at large? How does it evolve over time with an organization in flux?

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>Tue, Oct 22, 2013 / UX Meetup: Coryndon Luxmoore, "Pain is value"
This month Coryndon Luxmoore will be talking through a framework for understanding the creation of value for user and customers – Pain. Join us at The Design Office for a few beers and a friendly conversation about user experience. Hosted by the Providence UX User Group.

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>Thu, Oct 17, 2013 / Tool as Object: Lecture by Nic Schumann and Allon Kapeller-Libermann
How do tools change the relationship between designer, client, and consumer? Summer 2013 D.O. Fellows Nic Schumann and Allon Kapeller-Libermann explore this intersection by unpacking the modern production environment and investigating how an increasingly adaptable set of tools changes the way we think about objects.

Nic is a systems designer and senior in Computer Science at Brown who uses language to build meaningful structures from an undifferentiated context. Allon is a object designer of disruptive products and spaces, currently working on a useful mean of production.

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>Thu, Oct 03, 2013 / Renee Walker: On a redesign of food labels (Members only)
Renee Walker will present ideas around taking her concepts for a different kind of food label and making them into a practical and useful tool. She will be looking for a critique on the design as visual system as well as what would be a viable application for the system. (e.g. a mobile app? an actual label? a book?)

Come participate in the discussion. Drinks and snacks provided.

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>Wed, Sep 25, 2013 / Digital City: Launch and brainstorming event
Join “Digital City” founders Gary Glassman (Providence Pictures) and Renee Hobbs (Harrington School of Communication at URI) for a brainstorming and launch event to help envision a digital media design and production hub. There will be local craft beer from Revival Brewing and delicious tapas from Flan y Ajo.

This launch event and celebration is being held at The Design Office.

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>Tue, Jun 25, 2013 / Providence UX Meetup: Innovation and the federal government
UX expert Danny Chapman will talk about his experience participating in the Innovation Fellows program. He will touch on responsive design, the federal government’s 21st Century Digital Strategy, historic design research, and how the UX / UI community can get involved. Organized by the Providence UX Group.

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>Tue, May 14, 2013 / WordPress Providence Meetup
Come hear Collin Matthews speak on Migrating WordPress, and then find a partner for your next WordPress project. 6-8pm.

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>Tue, Apr 23, 2013 / Modern Pictograms: Lecture by Micah, John and Greg
AIGA Rhode Island presents a lecture by Design Office members Micah Barrett, John Caserta and Greg Nemes about Modern Pictograms: an icon typeface for interface designers. The project was a collaborative effort involving the drawing of the icons, the creation of a typeface for them, a printed specimen and a website to promote and sell the latest version.

The lecture will deal with issues of type design, offset printing and web design and development.

Free type specimens!

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>Tue, Apr 16, 2013 / WordPress Providence Meetup
Come hear Michael Tracy speak on Mobile Ready Responsive Sliders and Slideshows. Michael Tracy is an Adobe certified expert, Titanium Certified Mobile App Developer, and more. 6-8pm.

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>Tue, Mar 26, 2013 / Insights Lecture: Luna Maurer live webcast from the Walker
Live webcasts from the Walker Art Center. Doors at 7:30 pm, lectures begin promptly at 8 pm.

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>Tue, Mar 19, 2013 / Insights Lecture: Job Wouters live webcast from the Walker
Live webcasts from the Walker Art Center. Doors at 7:30 pm, lectures begin promptly at 8 pm.

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>Tue, Mar 12, 2013 / Insights Lecture: Eike Konig live webcast from the Walker
Live webcasts from the Walker Art Center. Doors at 7:30 pm, lectures begin promptly at 8 pm.

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>Tue, Mar 05, 2013 / Insights Lecture: Geoff McFetridge live webcast from the Walker
Live webcasts from the Walker Art Center. Doors at 7:30 pm, lectures begin promptly at 8 pm.

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>Fri, Feb 22, 2013 / Design Archives Vol. 19 (Members only)
Volume 19 of The Design Archives will be produced in a collaborative submission-based format, with instructions written below by Dylan Fracareta.
1. View your Sent emails by date:
2. Collect all SENT attachments from the date/time period in which you became a member at the D.O. (i.e. I became a member in September 2012 â€” so from that point on, any files I sent are game, regardless if I was physically in the office or not.)
3. Collect attachments for EACH applicable day post-membership (i.e. Itâ€™s totally fine if you donâ€™t have material for everyday.)
  You do not need to submit ALL sent attachments — feel free to edit as you wish. This process is basically a simulation of the â€˜recycling bin methodâ€™ that has ceased to exist post move. The thought being that Sent Attachments have already gone through a process of individual curation and in doing so have gained a degree of â€˜value.â€™
4. Please do NOT rename files
5. Please organize your images in individual folders by date (i.e. 091712, 100212, 100512, etc.)
6. Iâ€™ll organize an online file/submission structure something like:
  one folder for each day of the year
  w/ sub-folders for each member that you can drag your material into
  (or maybe, if itâ€™s easier, weâ€™ll just set up a dedicated hard-drive)
7. ALL submitted â€˜workâ€™ will be included in the Archive, so be conscious of your own selections/edits.
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>Fri, Feb 08, 2013 / Articulating Form: Anther Kiley formmaking workshop (Members only)
This workshop will be an exercise in articulating form in both senses of the term: in making form, and in revealing the process of that making through language. Using a pre-assembled kit of abstract and representational collage elements, participants will first make compositions individually and free-write about the process, then in pairs, and finally as an entire group, verbally negotiating formal decisions in real time – a kind of design by debate. By using language as a tool of analysis, these exercises will attempt to dissect the way that we negotiate the visual â€˜rulesâ€™ of composition and the logic of symbolic meaning when we make form.

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>Sun, Jan 27, 2013 / Providence Paper Football Tournament
Paper Football brings back memories of pre-digital lunchroom rivalries. Two kids, on opposite sides of a laminate table, pushing a small folded paper triangle back and forth — each hoping to situate the triangle over the edge for six points. To honor this analog communal event, The Design Office will hold a Paper Football tournament this January. We have a 16′ wide table, waxed and ready for kickoff. So put down your smart phone, design a football using the template above, and come down to the Design Office at 5pm, Sunday January 27th.

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>Tue, Jan 22, 2013 / WordPress Providence Meetup
Hosts: WordPress Foundation, Jesse Friedman, Luke Gedeon, Matthew Gedeon, ramgar.

Greg will be giving a talk on Responsive Design at the meetup.

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>Mon, Jan 21, 2013 / Paper Football Poster Workshop (Members only)

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>Thu, Jan 17, 2013 / Jeremy Mickel: â€œOn type design & typographyâ€
Please join us on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 6p for a lecture by type designer and former Design Office member Jeremy Mickel. Jeremy moved to Providence in 2008 shortly after releasing his first typeface, Router, through Village. He’ll talk about the process behind that first design, as well as the origins of his subsequent releases Shift, Fort, and Superior Title — all started while at the Design Office. He’ll show how these self-initiated projects led to a full-time career in type design, and resulted in starting his own foundry and getting custom projects for Kraft, Etsy, ESPN, Weight Watchers, and more.

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>Mon, Jan 14, 2013 / HTML Wallpaper Workshop (Members only)
This member workshop uses the web languages of HTML and CSS to produce browser-based patterns that will then be printed as wallpaper. The workshop requires a working knowledge of web development, but will review aspects of HTML and CSS. Participants will share their work throughout via passive projection and at the end of the five-hour session. Led by John.

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>Wed, Nov 14, 2012 / Book Signing for Nancy Skolos, Tom Wedell and Cyrus Highsmith

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>Tue, Dec 04, 2012 / WordPress Providence Meetup
The monthly meetup for the Providence WordPress group will meet at The Design Office this December.

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>Sat, Sep 15, 2012 / Open House – The new Design Office and 204 Westminster: See the new space
Please come to celebrate our new move, nine new members and the completion of two projects: the 204 Westminster sign, and our custom office furniture.

First floor of the building houses RISD Expose and 2nd Life

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