Shibui Designs is having an event tonight at Turpan in the Brentwood Country Mart!

The TURPAN store in LA has the same incredibly well-curated mix of high-to-low pieces that their current East Coast shop offers: Every item they sell, from nail brushes to mouth-blown Italian vases, are examples of exceptional American or European design.

Turpan
Brentwood Country Mart,
225 26th Street
Santa Monica

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DESIGN/PROCESS is an exhibition about the DNA of design and how inspiration travels the
chain from mentor to protégé, from concept to execution. Featured are the objects/products of
professional artists/designers who have mentored students in the design process displayed
alongside the products of the next generation of young designers. This generational “passing
of the torch” demonstrates that the flame of inspiration can spark new ideas and innovations in
design that continually respond to the ever-changing currents of contemporary culture.

OBJCT Gallery 548 West 1st Street
in the Packing House
Claremont, CA
91711

The show starts tomorrow, and runs until January 23 2011, in case you can’t make it.
See you there!

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Don’t forget colonists! Today is the 3rd Shibui Designs Colony Meeting. Bring your objects for the partners and participants to give you feed back.

Also, remember to bring along your ceramic decal designs, and anything that needs to go to Joan’s for firing.

See you there!

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Shibui Partner and decorative arts historian, Jo Lauria examined the place of the human hand, where one would supposed it would begin lack relevance given the amount of amazing technological tools available.

The article, in American Craft Magazine, actually concludes the exact opposite. The tools of the digital age cohabitate with necessary hand skills nicely, in a collaboration of the technological as well as traditional to produce finished objects at the Otis College of Art and Design

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We had a great time in Chinatown on the March 13th, thanks to our many wonderful speakers, guests and visitors. Pictures of the evening’s events, can be found on the events page of this website. Take a look and see if you can find yourself in the huddled crowd or corner of a reflection.

Even more thanks goes out to our speakers, Jason Burton, Brett Himmel, Tom Sandonato, Daniel Fletcher, Daniel Phillips, and Kim Karlsrud, who gave an enlightening talk moderated by Shibui Designs’ own Randall Wilson.

If you weren’t there, our gracious speakers covered a variety of concerns regarding design for outdoor spaces. Modern Outdoor’s Brett Himmel touched on competition in the outdoor field regarding well designed goods, the incorporation and integration of materials from other previously unexplored applications, and the implications of material awareness on local manufacturing, and environmental impact.

Tom Sandonato, of kitHAUS, talked a bit more about designing for a competitive marketplace, and breaking through by using the outdoors as a designable space to elevate and enhance lifestyle, expanding interior space to incorporate the surrounding exterior, and what it means to be in the garden and closer to God.

Jason Burton stressed material awareness as an approach to designing for new spaces, and how experience working with the land can yield inspiration for how one sustainably approaches the life cycle of a specific material.

Daniel Fletcher, Daniel Philips, and Kim Karlsrud closed the talk with a bit about urban reclamation and how human intervention can heal human decimated environments, using seed bombs (a compound of worm castings, clay and seeds) to easily plant unused and unpaved spaces..

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