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Design students collaborate with Museum of Natural History
“Winging It: An Experimental Gallery About Birds” is the newest exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The project was a collaboration between The Carnegie Museum of Natural History and The Carnegie Mellon School of Design.
After a summer of exploring the mist nets at Powdermill Nature Reserve, digging through the enormous filing cabinets filled with birds at the Museum, making countless trips to Home Depot, learning more than we ever wanted to know about how eggs gain their coloration, and squeezing into an 18” workspace the exhibit is finally assembled and installed.
THE DESIGNERS:
The exhibit was designed, fabricated and installed throughout the summer by Natalia Olbinski, Amanda Henderson, and Sarah Kusuma
(Professors Mark Baskinger and Stacie Rohrbach assisted.)
The exhibit opens tonight at 4:30 with remarks from Dr. Samuel M. Taylor at 5pm.
12/30/2009 | | Share
Behind the scenes on Luther’s shoot, December 2009.
12/21/2009 | | Share
Designer Spotlight #8: Sabrina Majeed & Hao Su
Each week leading up to the Lunar Gala, we are featuring a designer. Today, meet Sabrina Majeed and Hao Su:
What year are you?
2010 (seniors)
What is your major?
Sabrina: Communication Design + HCI
Hao: Computer Science
Where are you from?
Sabrina: Dallas, TX
Hao: Pittsburgh, PA
Who are your favorite designers?
Philip Lim, Georgina Chapman for Marchesa, and Gareth Pugh
What is your budget?
As much as necessary
You both not only design for Lunar Gala but also coordinate it. How do you balance putting together a line, managing the biggest fashion event at CMU and your own respective workloads?
(We answered why we do it rather than how… haha we just do it.)
The overall experience of the show has a dramatic impact on how each individual collection (ours included) is perceived. As coordinators, we want each line to be showcased in the best possible manner and in turn have each line contribute to shaping a fantastic show. As for designing, we’re definitely not putting in this much effort because we hate it!
12/12/2009 | | Share
Last but not least
If you are still in town, come see what the sophomore industrial design students have been up to all semester. Don’t worry, you will not be covered in a fine layer of dust afterwards because the show is taking place outside of their studio. So leave your goggles and face masks at home and check out the last design critique for Fall 2009.
Monday Dec. 13, 10:00 – 12:00 pm || MMCH 203
Sophomore ID Studio: Generation of Form
12/12/2009 | | Share
Sneak Peak at our first issue
We just wrapped up our shoot with Luther Young, a senior Industrial Design student here at Carnegie Mellon. He designed a line of bags and raincoats loosely inspired by his semester in Amsterdam as well as the need for functional beautiful design. Look for the full editorial and story in our first issue coming next February!
Luther stopping in for an interview with our very own Hanah Ho (aka Hoprah)
12/11/2009 | | Share
Recap of the CMU Design Show
The venue was an interesting one. A few steps from the Cheesecake Factory was a brightly lit gallery that was once an Ann Taylor store. It was filled with CMU students and just curious shoppers trying to find a place to escape the blistering cold. The show represented the culmination of projects done by design seniors this semester. From the practical and commercial to the abstract, environmental and social, the work was a diverse reflection of the multidisciplinary interests of the school of design.
12/10/2009 | | Share
Come for the sales!
The School of Design senior design critique is tonight in South Side Works. It will take place at the old Ann Taylor storefront from 6pm - 10pm. Come see the array of interesting projects they have been working on from a fashion line to a redesign of the CMU andrew network. There will be refreshments! And you can do some shopping afterwards since you’re already in the area. So throw on that parka and hop on the 59U!
6PM-10PM
428 S 27th St
Pittsburgh, PA
12/07/2009 | | Share
Shameless plugs: School of Design fall critiques
These are the design critiques for the next two days, we will keep you guys posted as they come!
Tuesday, December 8
9:00 am – 12:00 pm || MMCH 212
Freshman Show
1:30 pm – 5:30 pm || MMCH A11
Designing for Service Studio
2:00 – 4:00 pm || MMCH 121
How People Work
Wednesday, December 9
9:00 - 11:00 am || MMCH A11
Beginning Typography
2:00 – 4:00 pm || MMCH A11
Graduate Studio I
4:30 – 6:30 pm || MMCH 121
Design for Service Seminar
5:00 – 7:00 pm || MMCH 221
Digital Imaging
5:00 – 7:00 pm || MMCH A11
Communication Design Fundamentals
