Design Build Adventure

Very excited to have Big Target (600 yards) hanging in the men’s department at
By George.

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Big Target (600 Yards)
Collage on Vintage Target
6′ x 6′
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Design Build Adventure September Update:

Cosmico Fencing Diagram, Steel Table for AT Studio project, Little Pinky’s Deck,
UT students learning value “sticks and strings”in Marfa, house near Blanco
(with Keke and JoJo), Garden Street Sandlot Kitchen, Airstream Demo, and Robert Plant.

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It’s been moving so fast – hard to believe it has been almost 2 month since I had the
amazing opportunity to work with my buddy Butch Anthony again, this time in Portland , Oregon.
We worked with the students from the OCAC + PNCA MFA in Applied Craft and Design, and in only 10 days
and very little budget (maybe $1000.00) , converted an unused “unit” at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Justice Center into a “literacy center” …
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What an awesome couple of days – especially the weather!  Yesterday the Masters Art students from OCAC + PNCA presented our “literacy center” design concepts to the Administration and the Students at the Long Juvenile Justice Center in Portland.

Today we are refining our ideas based on their feedback and hope to start building, fabricating, and painting as early as tomorrow. The project scope has broken into a few groups (1) outdoor table / seating / interior soft furniture, (2) Dioramas (you will see!), (3) Giant Paint and Text … Keep Reading→

I am very lucky to be in Portland, Oregon for 2 weeks working on a design / build project with students at the OCAC + PNCA MFA Applied Craft and Design. Our project is to help convert one of the existing “units” at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Justice Center into a “literacy center”.  I will share some of that work later this week as we get started.  Today we are presenting our design to some of the students at center.

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While preparing for the first ever Camp Design Build Adventure in Marfa, Texas – I looked back to one of my favorite books, Devil’s Workshop: 25 Years of Jersey Devil Architecture (1997, Princeton Architectural Press) and was excited to re-read something I had underlined and starred almost 10 years ago … it talks about how Steve Badanes and other Devil’s saw the activities of early counter-culture artist-builders “using architecture to have a good life”.

That is what this week felt like.

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Friends, Family, Colleagues,

I am very proud to announce in the first few days of my 35th year,
the official launch of the new DESIGN BUILD ADVENTURE website!

www.designbuildadventure.com

Designed and Built by the amazingly talented Sarah Presson
of Eye Like Design http://www.eyelikedesign.com/ – – – the website
has photos of past and current projects – arranged in exciting categories like,
Adventures in Architecture, Adventures and Fabrication/Installation,
Adventures on Paper, and Adventures with Students .. .

The website is also home to our official “ART YEAR” calendar,
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