Option Shift Control - the Mac centric title of this weekends design conference at NCSU College of Design. If you have some time this PM or tomorrow- there should be a vibrant energy and a lot of promising work.
Option Shift Control
Collaboration and Co-creation by Design
November 30 and December 1, 2007
Friday afternoon, all day Saturday
The Master of Graphic Design Candidates at the College of Design, North Carolina State University, request your participation in our third bi-annual graduate symposium. Join us for presentations, activities, artifacts, and discussions that include our current studio projects that investigate and and respond to the topic of collaboration and co-creation in an age of audience empowerment. In the spirit of co-creation, we need your participation. Share your ideas and views in an engaging atmosphere!
See the website for more information.
Fashion shows have become very popular in downtown Raleigh over the past two years. Sparkcon has hosted two and White Collar Crime has hosted their fare share as well. This time it’s Vintage 21, a new culture vulture in the Warehouse District, who will host the latest fashion show. It is entitled Runway Wars and starts Friday night at 9pm. Various local salons and designers (one of which we recently profiled) will be competing for the grand prize. Some of the event seems to come off a bit kitschy and the sponsors are almost all energy and alcohol based drinks, but it should be a good evening of stylin’ and profilin’. The Warehouse district and definitely downtown Raleigh needs more of this to prove to Richard Florida that we are more than just a “creative” statistic. No sleep ‘til?
More Runway Wars
Economist & New York Times columnist Paul Krugman will be speaking at Quail Ridge Books at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. He will present his new book, The Conscience of a Liberal, a challenge to reclaim the values that made America great.
As an opinion writer for the NYT you can be assured the presentation will be as entertaining as his columns. Read Krugman’s latest columns here.
Mario Marzan will be speaking about his work at 4pm this Saturday at Rebus Works. Marzan’s images and sculptures have been on display at Rebus Works for the past six weeks and they offer a commentary on space and architecture familiar with what we have seen on display in Raleigh this fall.
More on Marzan
Sunday, November 18th, Banana Republic of Southpoint Mall and Crabtree Valley Mall, in conjunction with Sephora, Salon Blu, Mosquito, and The Wine Merchant will be hosting a charity fashion show for the new Banana Republic holiday collection to benefit the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina.
November 18th
Doors open at 7 pm.
21 and up
