DGS NEWS

L.A. Garden Show is this weekend!

Visit the L.A. Garden Show at The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden this weekend. The focus of this year's show is edible plants.

• See Showcase and Terrace garden displays designed by Southern California landscape architects and designers featuring edible plants.
• Learn about design, edible plants, organics and sustainable gardening practices from guest speakers.
• Shop The Marketplace for garden elements, edible plants, flowering favorites and rare finds.
• Discover new ways to incorporate edible plants in containers, small plots and landscapes.
• Enjoy food, entertainment and gardening activities just for kids.

L.A. Garden Show runs today 5/1 through Sunday 5/3.

Meals on Wheels on Marketplace

St. Vincent Meals on Wheels was profiled on NPR's Marketplace this morning. This piece takes a look at the growing number of seniors in the L.A. area that are in need and the care and dedication that St. Vincent Meals on Wheels and Sister SAM deliver with each meal. You can listen to or read the Marketplace story here.

Kudos

Bert-Co Industries, a printer with amazing capabilities for creating packaging, has been recognized by their peers this month at the 2009 PIASC Print Excellence Awards for a number of projects including two that were designed and illustrated here at DGS.

The Bert-Co Holiday Pop-Up Portfolio was recognized in the categories Best of Cards, Best of Publishing Techniques and received an Award of Excellence.

The Bert-Co Sustainability Campaign was also recognized with an Award of Excellence.

What's the Story...

Congratulations to our favorite candyman, Max Lesser of Morning Glory Confections on the article in the L.A. Times blog Daily Dish. Max's brittle is truly a decadent treat with flavors that will knock your socks off.

To get your hands on some of this good stuff, check out the Morning Glory site for a store near you.

Blockades

Our dear friend Robby Herbst has a show up through April 18th at David Patton Gallery here in Chinatown. This solo exhibition features amazing drawings of individuals in the acts of civil disobedience and aims to make visual what it feels like to act directly. This is a great show and is not to be missed.

David Patton Gallery, 932 Chung King Road, L.A., (213) 626-2524, through April 18. Closed Sundays through Wednesdays.

Read the review in the L.A. Times.

Five Years of Fellowships for Visual Artists

California Community Foundation (CCF) with the support of the Getty Foundation will unveil their retrospective awards catalogue: Common Threads, Shared Spaces: Five Years of Fellowships for Visual Artists. Department of Graphic Sciences has been given the honor of creating the book's design and is collaborating with writer and project manager Irene Tsatsos. Others members of the project team include Namju Cho and Leslie Ito of CCF and Angie Kim of the Getty. This catalogue provides the unique opportunity of highlighting the diverse works of 61 Los Angeles artists. It will release in March, 2009.

A Field Guide: the Book

Keep an eye out for a comprehensive guide to The Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, currently in the works and due out in September of this year. The explosive exhibition took place at LACMA on November 15, 2008, featuring performances, workshops, installations and events that introduced new ways of experiencing LACMAs expansive space and it's mazelike galleries. The book seeks to not only document these projects but further practices beyond the actual day by  featuring new works, essays and interviews.

Print Magazine awards

DGS was awarded 3 times in Print Magazine's 2008 Regional Design Annual! The projects recognized included the book cover for Fritz Haeg's Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, Machine Project's membership package, and the book cover and packaging for Lize Mogel's An Atlas of Radical Cartography.

morning glory confections

Many thanks to Max Lesser for making the DGS holiday gift a sweet success! For more information about his artisan brittle and for a list of stores that carry his goods, go to www.morninggloryconfections.com

Lamp Community

DGS is proud to be building a new relationship with an outstanding Los Angeles organization: Lamp Community. Their Build-a-Village campaign, helping men and women with severe disabilities move from streets to homes, aims to end chronic homelessness and transform lives. We helped put together their campaign booklet, featuring cover art by residents participating in their support services.