February 2011 Blog Posts (18)

We've been talking about it for a bit now and last night was the Say Something Poster Project show at the Fourth Wall Gallery on Brookline Avenue. It was the culmination of a lot of work by…

In keeping with Design Museum Boston tradition we've cut together a little highlight video from our last event. UNITE @Continuum was a big hit with hundreds of people coming to connect and check out our new brand identity which we're happy to say was very well received. We can't thank Continuum enough for opening their doors to our guests and for helping us design our new look. …

and when it's finished it's going to be quite a place. On February 16th, Sam and I took the opportunity to attend a tour of the new space located at…

Please consider donating to Design Museum Boston during our spring fundraiser. The last year has marked an amazing start for DMB. In November, Design Museum Boston opened its first major exhibit, Creative Capital: Designed in Boston. We’ve forged important partnerships with organizations like …

A couple of weeks ago, I was riding up with a friend from Ohio to Philadelphia. I’m from the New England area, and as far as I know, we don’t really have anything quite like these things, but Pennsylvania is crawling with these mega convenient stores on the side of the road. Basically they are these gas station/convenient store/fast food restaurants all in one, all under the same name, "Sheetz."…

Our friends over at InSource are bringing their Regional Roundtable event series to town, in early June 2011 at Continuum in West Newton. InSource is a network for…

The lack of focus on creative problem solving in our K-12 education is alarming. Talk about long-term competitiveness, it's not enough to teach our kids science, math, english and history; we need to structure situations where they must apply that knowledge towards innovative solutions to real (or even imaginary)…

Design Museum Boston's series of lectures by the exhibitors in Creative Capital:…

Most of us Westerners feel that anything made in China is cheap, either in price and/or quality. Nicely Made in China proves to inform us otherwise. Lionel Derimais, a photographer for over 30 years, is…

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Check out the video above for a recap of the second "Designing A Difference" workshop with Smallbean, the Newton Tanzania Collaborative and the programs newest sponsor, Samsonite. You can find more information on Design Museum Boston's "Designing A Difference" program …

Nowadays, everything is recorded on video, tweeted in 140 characters, or snapped in a…

As a new Associate Designer at VDA Productions, I was lucky enough to attend The Special Event (TSE) 2011 in Phoenix, AZ. With me this year was…

I tell most people that I am an Industrial Design major, and I usually get the "oh... so that's like, buildings right?" response, or the smile-and-nodder who tries to pretend they know what it is... that's always funny. Every once in a while there is that one person who knows what I am talking about.If the conversation continues I go on to give as…