DGS NEWS

M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art

Greetings from the DGS offices! We hope your Halloween was as exciting and spooky as ours was.

We wanted to let you know about an upcoming panel discussion for the M.A. Peers exhibition “Project Series 42: M.A. Peers", hosted by writer and curator Doug Harvey, joined by artist Steve Roden.

Thursday, November 18, at 7 p.m.,
at the Pomona College Museum of Art
The panel will be followed by a public reception from 8-10 p.m.

The reason why is, (A) because these are all interesting folks with a lot to say, and (B) the exhibition is accompanied by a catalog that we designed. We had a lot of fun working with M.A. Peers, and her broad array of paintings, including Soviet space dog portraits, made for the Museum of Jurassic Technology, purebred dogs painted on Op-y fabrics, and corporate figures slyly swallowed up in fields of brilliant color. The fact that Peers doubles as a competitive whippet trainer is also an extra-special bonus in our book. Check out the fluorescent spiral binding and the special hidden fold-out.

For more information on the exhibits and directions to the museum, see the Pomona College Museum of Art website.

LAMP Community

 

We are pleased to report that we are working with another client who is doing amazing work in the world. They are called LAMP Community. You may remember this outstanding organization from the film, "The Soloist"? They are a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization celebrating it's 25th year of ending homelessness, improving health and building self-sufficiency among men and women living with severe mental illness. We are currently developing their identity surrounding their 25th Anniversary Celebration and their Annual Report for 2009. 

For more information on LAMP Community, check out their website.

 

GLOWing with Food and Wine on Saturday 9/25

  

 
 

This will be an exciting weekend for DGS, as two huge festivals that we’ve been working on are both held this Saturday, September 25th. The American Wine and Food Festival (AWFF) will start at 6pm on the Universal Studios Backlot. GLOW begins at 7pm and runs until 3am on the Santa Monica Pier, beach and Palisades Park (so you could easily attend both!)

If you’ve never been to AWFF, start saving up your appetite now. The event is an amazing night that brings together the country’s premiere chefs and vintners, all in support of the Meals on Wheels programs of Los Angeles (who are our buds as well). 

This year, there are over 40 top chefs and over 80 vintners. There’s also live music, a Dessert Sanctuary, a Silent Auction and much more. In other words, it’s a fantastic night out! While we’re in the throws of last minute production for Saturday, you may visit the AWFF website to get your tickets and be sure to partake in this fabulous night that benefits a wonderful cause. 

Although it seems like just yesterday that we were announcing that we got the GLOW design job, that festival is already this weekend too! GLOW promises to be an amazing night with over 20 art installations and projects scattered about the Santa Monica Pier, beach and Palisades Park (it just so happens that we designed a very handy map that you can pick up at the event to help you find your way around). 

The installations range from acoustic music performances to the most technologically advanced interactive artworks. Included in the impressive roster of artists is Steve Roden, who you’ll remember from our recent post has a show up at the Pomona College Museum of Art (which we also designed for- we’ve had a busy summer). There is an opening ceremony for GLOW at 7pm at Ocean and Colorado Avenues, so be sure to be there on time and wear comfy walking and art viewing shoes!

If you do attend either event and would like to share your photos with us, please email them to nancy@deptofgraphicsciences.com, as we’d love to see the night from your perspective!

Thanks, and hope to see you Saturday!

Steve Roden Reception This Saturday

 

Hello! We’re exited to announce the opening reception for Steve Roden: when words become forms at the Pomona College Museum of Art on Saturday, September 11th from 4-6pm. 

It seems that Mr. Roden is one of those artists who is just about everywhere these days, as our office finds itself typesetting his name over and over again (he is also in this year’s GLOW and is a past recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowships for Visual Artists). This time, we created a little golden nugget of a catalog for his exhibition as well as the accompanying ads and banners. After staring at his work on our monitors for months, it will be exciting to see them in person at the show.

Also opening will be Project Series 41: Ginny Bishton. She will be showing two bodies of work, including new large photo-collages and pen and ink drawings. So, between both exhibitions, you’re going to need to get to Pomona on Saturday!

As further proof of Steve Roden’s popularity, he also has a show opening later that night after his Pomona reception at the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts (Details here). We’re guessing that he may also be found on the 210 westbound at approximately 6:30pm that night eating a burrito while commuting to his next reception.

For more information on the exhibits and directions to the museum, see the Pomona College Museum of Art website.

To read what the LA Times has to say about Steve Roden’s work, click here. 

Summer Glow

 

Hello and Happy Labor Day weekend! The DGS office is bustling this summer- we’re hard at work on this year’s American Wine and Food Festival, new packaging for familiar clients, upcoming exhibits at Pomona College Museum of Art, and much, much more. Today, however, we are compelled to pull ourselves away from our Creative Suite long enough to announce some exciting news. 

We are happy to report that we will be doing all of the printed materials for this year’s GLOW arts festival in Santa Monica!  Those of you have been our friends since 2008 will recall that we were fortunate enough to do the inaugural GLOW festival which drew over 200,000 participants. 

For those of you unfamiliar, GLOW features twenty art installations and interactive works created by a spectacular group of local and international artists. The event is located in Santa Monica on the beach, pier and Palisades Park. It will be held on September 25th from 7pm to 3am and is a free event.

Be sure to save the date, we’ll see you there!

Happy Birthday S.A.M!

 

Sister Alice Marie Quinn, D.C., the founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Meals on Wheels, is turning 75 years young on June 15th. A celebration in her honor to benefit the organization will take place this Sunday. We are thrilled to report that the event sold out and support for this amazing organization keeps on coming! Congratulations to Meals on Wheels and all of the people who have worked so hard to make this event happen. Most of all we send the happiest of birthday wishes to S.A.M. whose tireless efforts feed and bring comfort to so many in need in our community.

American Public Media did a great feature story on Sister Alice Marie and the St. Vincent Meals on Wheels program. Listen Here

Happy Mother's Day Weekend!

Happy Mother’s Day to all you beautiful moms out there. Did you know that the original concept for Mother’s Day was born out of protest against war? The idea was for women to come together across national lines, to recognize what we hold in common above what divides us, and commit to finding peaceful resolutions to conflicts. Powerful thoughts that still reign true today.

Here are some excellent ways for you and mom to celebrate peacefully this weekend.

ARBORETUM:

Tour of the Queen Anne Cottage and Historic Core
Sunday, 10:00am - 3:30pm

On Sunday May 9th The Arboretum is having its annual Mother's Day Open House at the Queen Anne Cottage. Tours start at 10AM and the last tour will be at 3:30 PM.

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AUTRY:

Mother's Day Brunch
Sunday, May 9, 2010, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

Celebrate Mother’s Day at the Autry with a delicious buffet brunch on the plaza, unlimited champagne, and a free gift in the museum store. Brunch is $20 plus tax with reduced rates available for children. Regular museum admission fees apply. Admission to the museum includes our new exhibition, Home Lands: How Women Made the West, and museum teachers will be available for gallery tours at 1:00 p.m. Reservations are not required, but if you would like to reserve a table, please call 323-667-9060.

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MACHINE PROJECT:

Clone Home With Critter Salon
Saturday May 8th, 2010; 3-5pm

CRITTER presents Clone-Home, an afternoon open house for multiplying plants. Come with a few cuttings of your favorite plant(s) to share and trade with others.

Post tax-day events!

Greetings from the DGS offices! We hope that your tax day was as painless as possible and that you have a great weekend and Earth Day next week!

Our clients are up to some good stuff this weekend, please check them out:

MACHINE PROJECT AT THE HAMMER:

Registration begins on April 15th for an overnight Dream-In at the Hammer Museum co-hosted by Machine Project and Artspa. Dreamers are invited to camp out in the Hammer courtyard and collect any dreams that occur during their stay. The evening will feature experimental dreaming workshops, concerts, and bedtime stories, followed by a waking concert in the morning, all facilitated by a dreamy batch of local artist-psychonauts.
Register online beginning Arpil 15th at: http://dreamin.eventbrite.com

Tablacentric Closing Party at Machine Project

Sunday April 18th, 2010
4-7:30 PM
Please join Machine Project on Sunday April 18, 2010 from 4pm-7:30pm for the Tablacentric Closing Party. Featuring Sadubas (www.astralaudio.com/sadubas) and TJ Troy (tabla artist).
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ARBORETUM:

Mark your calendar for the L.A. Garden Show. It’s April 30 – May 2, 2010
http://lagardenshow.com
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AUTRY:

Caughey Foundation Lecture: Lisa See: Hearing Women in the West
ALL ABOUT BOOKS, WOMEN OF THE WEST

Sunday, Apr 18, 2010, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Wells Fargo Theater, Griffith Park
This year’s Caughey Foundation Lecture at the Autry features bestselling author Lisa See. In her lecture, See will reflect on her own writings and on her ongoing search to uncover the voices of women who came to the West and who made the West. Free admission. Seating is limited.http://theautry.org/programs/lectures-seminars-discussions/lisa-see-hearing-women-in-the-west

Exhibition: Home Lands, How Women Made the West
Museum of the American West at Griffith Park, April 16, 2010 - August 22, 2010

From ancient pueblos to modern suburbs, women have shaped the Western landscape through choices about how to sustain home, family, and community. Home Lands: How Women Made the West brings together women's history, Western history, and environmental history to show how women have been at the heart of the Western enterprise across cultures and over time.

http://theautry.org/exhibitions/home-lands

What to do this weekend

Machine Project:

Shape Note Singing Workshop from machine project by Michele
Sunday April 11th, 2010, 8pm
Led by Jessica Catron and Daniel Brummel
Free!

Come and learn as well as participate in a unique, alternative musical language. Utilizing a few shapes instead of basic music notation, the shape note form invites participants to hone in on harmonic structures in large groups, allowing beautiful sounds to materialize among people who have likely never sung together before. The music is easy, the sound is joyously resonant, and all voices are welcome — a willingness to sing is the only requirement.

Machine Project is located at: 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles.
Contact: 213 483 8761

Arboretum:

Saturday, April 10 & Sunday, April 11 9am-4:30pm
Iris and Bulb Show and Sale

Tall bearded, small bearded, and aril-bred irises will be on the display provided by the Southern California Iris Society and So. Cal. Hemerocallis & Amaryllis Society. Pacific Coast natives that have colors ranging from cream to blue-violet and Siberian Iris that flower throughout the summer will also be featured. Members will be available to answer cultural questions. Iris plants will be for sale.

http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/events-and-classes/

Happy April from the studio of DGS!

We are plugging away, enjoying spring, with one eye on the monitor and the other taking in the view of the purple flower-covered Dodger stadium hillside outside our office. Also, the spring has brought a new addition to our studio, Nancy Julson-Reily, with her keen eye, smooth disposition and awesome outfits. She’s certainly upped the ante when it comes to our wardrobe choices in the morning!

We have been very excited to witness that our Original Beans packaging is getting some buzz about town (by town, we mean the internet). It’s a project that we’re particularly proud of, and one that uses variety of interesting printing processes (including a custom paper order from Mr. French, our eternal crush, blind embosses, foil stamp and yummy spot colors). Not to mention the delicious goodness that the packaging contains within!

The project was featured on FPO (For Print Only) on underconsideration.com:

http://www.underconsideration.com/fpo/archives/2010/03/original-beans-packaging.php

It was also featured on the following blogs
Mr. French (blush, blush)
http://www.frenchsampleroom.com/french_paper_sample_room/2010/03/custom-manufactured-french-sheet.html .
THECOOLIST*

http://www.thecoolist.com/original-beans-chocolate-packaging-by-dgs/

The Dieline

http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2009/12/original-beans-chocolate.html

We’re not gonna lie, we’re eating up the glory... multiple bars at a time.

As far as current projects, we have some exciting things coming up, and will posts pics asap. One of the irons on the fire is the LA Garden Show at The Arboretum. The theme of the exhibition is Living Green which has granted us the opportunity to continue in the direction of greener, more sustainable printing options.

Our clients are busy as well, here’s a few things going on this weekend if you’d like to visit them (please tell them that we say hello!)

Arboretum:

http://www.arboretum.org/index.php/news/beatrix_potter_in_the_garden_an_easter_celebration_at_the_arboretum/#When:21:07:00Z

Beatrix Potter In The Garden: An Easter Celebration at The Arboretum Sat. April 3

Regular Arboretum admission fees apply for non-members. Event entry fees are $5.00 per child for members and $10.00 per child for non-members. Event reservations not required.

Brunch with Peter Rabbit: Saturday, April 3, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

A Special Easter Brunch for the Entire Family! Seated in the beautiful surroundings of the Peacock Café patio,enjoy a buffet brunch featuring lots of tasty offerings. $25 per adult, $15 per child (10 and under) Limited seating on a first-come, first-serve basis without reservations. Your brunch purchase includes these special children's activities: an opportunity to meet & have photos taken with Peter Rabbit, planting a miniature English garden to take home.

For reservations call 626.446.2248

Pomona College Museum of Art:

http://www.pomona.edu/museum/exhibitions/

Three exhibitions are closing soon, don’t miss them!

Helen Pashgian: Working in Light, January 23 – April 11, 2010
Project Series 40: Amanda Ross-Ho, January 23 – April 11, 2010
Famous For 15, January 23 – April 11, 2010

333 N. College Way, Claremont CA 91711-6344
Contact: (909) 621-8283

Machine Project at the Hammer Museum:

http://hammer.ucla.edu/newsblogs/?p=1151

Artist in Residence, Machine Project presents a two week tabla (north Indian classical drums) interactive interstitial at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles from April 6 - 17, 2010 curated by Robin Sukhadia. Come and participate in a wide range of tabla centered events including tabla workshops, film screenings and classical / contemporary Indian music performances. More information available at www.tablapusher.com

Tuesday, April 6, 2 - 5 PM
In Hammer Museum lobby - Open Tabla Workshops for beginners & Live Classical and Contemporary Indian Music performances.

Thursday, April 8, 2 - 5 PM
(FREE Museum Admission) In Hammer Museum lobby -
Open Tabla Workshops for beginners & Live Classical and Contemporary Indian Music performances

10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Contact: 310.443.7000