Thank you to Jan at Poppytalk for interviewing me for the Design*Sponge Guest Blog! Take a photographic tour of the UPPERCASE space and find out how I get my work done with so many lovely distractions.

The annual ACAD portfolio show is this Thursday.

The ACAD 4th Year Portfolio Show offers professionals from the design and communications industries an opportunity to preview the work of ACAD's graduating students. The students will present their portfolios of graphic design, illustration, advertising, character design and photography. The Photography and Visual Communications Design programs at ACAD prepare students for successful careers as professionals in the discipline, practice and culture of photography and design. The 2008 graduating class of 70 students from the Visual Communications and Photography programs will enter the professional job market in May 2008.

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
6-9 pm
Nexen Tower Garden Court
801 7th Ave. SW

 

Shared Experience
Illustration Roundtable Number 2

Tuesday, April 22

Alberta College of Art & Design
Room 461 from 2-4pm

For details contact Mike Kerr. (mike -at- wronghand.com) 

This Thursday, UPPERCASE is turning three! The plus five? We've renewed our lease for five more years! Please join us tomorrow from 5pm - 9pm to help us celebrate this milestone.

This Saturday evening, clothing designer Kathie Armstrong will be launching the spring line of Paperbag Clothing. The event takes place in UPPERCASE from 7pm - 9pm. Tickets are $15 and available at the door. Join Kathie for wine & cheese, music and 25% off her clothing products.

"As far as my own work goes, I feel as if it is still taking shape and finding its form stylistically. The clothes I produce have a rough jagged look that I love. It has a rawness to it that helps the viewer to appreciate it both as a means for communicating clothing design and as a conceptual art piece. I rely on textures and shapes to complete my collections and love to offset a piece with different size pockets, random shaped buttons or contrast stitching.

When designing a collection, I start out with some basic rough sketches. From there I develop a theme and work my collection around the theme because I like when pieces can relate to one another. I usually have an idea of the type of fabrics I want to use, which is also incorporated into the designing process. It can take up to five protocols before I feel I have mastered the fit and look of a piece. I know a piece is done when I can put it on and want to wear it right away."

Kathie trained at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. She has designed high-end couture for New York Fashion Week as well as sports/yoga wear for Lululemon Athletica. "I ended up designing sportswear because it is what i buy and can relate to. I think you have to have some emotional connection with your product or you’ll never expresses your true creativity."

Looking for a break from work tomorrow? Ensemble Resonance will be playing during the lunch hour in Art Central tomorrow (Thursday, 21st) from Noon – 1pm on the lower level as part of New Music in New Places presenting music by Calgary composers.

Thank you to all our poets and visitors who attended "You're Just My Type" on Saturday. Event photos are posted here.

Just getting some supplies ready for tomorrow's You're Just my Type event here in UPPERCASE and the Palette Coffeehouse. We hope to see you all here! (Brave the cold weather and then warm up with Doug's special "Love Potion #9" that he is concocting in the Palette.)

 

Join us from 5pm - 9pm for the opening of TypeBlock! Part of the Exposure photography festival.

Looks like a nice event on February 22.