Detroit Design Festival

[mauser]

There is a MASSIVE art festival this Thursday that ranges all the way from the graffiti on Grand River Avenue to the galleries of Eastern Market !

Here is a link for the Grand River events:
http://www.detroitdesignfestival.com...ridor-art-walk

In Eastern Market at Salt & Ceder Letterpress Studio, there is a VERY cool show that will consist of found/saved objects from Detroit that will tell its story and ours. They are taking donated objects from now until Wednesday right at Salt & Ceder. I encourage anybody with a Detroit collection of objects to consider donating something to this show. If it gets enough steam, the objective is to have the show travel around to other cities. You can get your object back if you want to - and then a photo with travel in its place.

I donated two very cool things that I was able to save from the landfills.

Here is the press release from Sara Dean:

I thought you would like to know about an upcoming show. And we would love it if you would participate.

As part of the DDF, we are putting on a show at Salt & Cedar in the Eastern Market. The show is a crowd-sourced collection of found objects from Detroit. Anyone can contribute an item to the collection. We are hoping that by asking residents, designers and artists to contribute items, it will accumulate into a collection as lively and exuberant as the city. We also hope that this is a way to show the city in the present tense - through things that exist in the city now.

We are accepting objects starting Saturday at Salt & Cedar.

Our opening will be this upcoming Thursday, the 20th, as part of the Eastern Market After Dark event that the DDF is hosting.

[[http://www.facebook.com/events/184701198328035/)

For more information, visit our DDF event page: http://www.detroitdesignfestival.com...anecdoted-city

Our design collectives page: http://http://www.1ofx.com

And Salt & Cedar's page: http://www.facebook.com/saltandcedar

If you would like more information, or images, feel free to email me.

Because it's a crowd-sourced show, we are relying on people to contribute and spread the word.

Thanks, and hope to see you at the show!

Sara Dean

[Farnsworthfarms]

does anyone else have info about these events??? what is the word on the street about the DDF??? B/c I have not really heard anything...but the web site lists a sh#@ ton of events.

Anyone???

[southofbloor]

Opening party is tomorrow night [[wednesday) at the Fisher Building - I am definitely going. Bringing down 40 of my colleagues from Toronto for the weekend to see Detroit [[first time in most cases) and hit some other DDF events - should be fun. http://www.detroitdesignfestival.com

[Kathleen]

Parducci at DDF!!

Exhibit: Surveying Greatness: The Work of Corrado Parducci
Detroit Public Library through Sept 25
http://www.detroitdesignfestival.com...rrado-parducci

[Kathleen]

Yamasaki at DDF!!

Tour: Yamasaki Buildings on Wayne State University Campus
Thu 09/20 6:30pm & 8pm
Fri 09/21 6:30pm & 8pm
Sat 09/22 9am & 10:30am
http://www.detroitdesignfestival.com...building-tours

[southofbloor]

Think there are programs available at tomorrow's opening event as well

[Kathleen]

Mies van der Rohe at DDF!!

Tour: Lafayette Park
Sun 09/23 12:30pm & 3:30pm
http://www.detroitdesignfestival.com/pages/lafayette-park-guided-walking-tours

[southofbloor]

Great DDF launch party at the Fisher Building tonight - Detroit nailed it. LOVE being down here. Beautiful city - fun people.

[Farnsworthfarms]

[QUOTE=southofbloor;341962]LOVE being down here. [QUOTE] exactly

[Kathleen]

Detroit Curbed's follow-up on the Yamasaki Buildings Tour that I led for the DDF back on September 19. Check out the photos!!!

http://detroit.curbed.com/archives/2...wsu-campus.php