Michael Etter
Art Director
- November 4, 2009 • 12:06 pm PST
- + responses
Seven designers/design studios connected with seven youth in a speed-dating session to getting to know each other, fast. Five (or so) minutes per person. It went fast and we were able to make the pairings of Designer/Student soon after. The event was held at p:ear in downtown.
I'd have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other's work. Maybe in the future we won't do it as a speed dating type thing. I thought it would be a fun way to get to know one another but it can feel like high school if you want to be with someone else and they thing you didn't pick them. I guess it all depends (like most things) on how it is delivered. Chalk that up to experience. We push everyone a little outside of their comfort zones as a rule during any re:active program and that's one of the reasons that makes it memorable in the end.
The designers involved come from:
Cary Design Group – Laura Cary
Ditroen – Dardi
Makelike – Mary & Topher
Nike – Courtney Clingan
Obsessive Consumption – Kate Bingaman
Plazm – Josh Berger
PopArt – Dave Selden
We are planning on having the billboards created by the end of the year and hung around town in Spring ‘10.
Check back for more.
I'd have to say that, both groups were a little tentative at first but everyone loosened up and had a good time finding out about each other's work. Maybe in the future we won't do it as a speed dating type thing. I thought it would be a fun way to get to know one another but it can feel like high school if you want to be with someone else and they thing you didn't pick them. I guess it all depends (like most things) on how it is delivered. Chalk that up to experience. We push everyone a little outside of their comfort zones as a rule during any re:active program and that's one of the reasons that makes it memorable in the end.
The designers involved come from:
Cary Design Group – Laura Cary
Ditroen – Dardi
Makelike – Mary & Topher
Nike – Courtney Clingan
Obsessive Consumption – Kate Bingaman
Plazm – Josh Berger
PopArt – Dave Selden
We are planning on having the billboards created by the end of the year and hung around town in Spring ‘10.
Check back for more.
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