2012’S DAM DESIGN SHOW will celebrate COCKTAIL!

Thirteen local designers will share their own process of creating cocktail tables, side tables and bars, starting with sketches to the finished saleable product. During the exclusive Opening Event, DAM will once again host a runway show, featuring women’s cocktail evening wear by Emily Thornhill of Homeslice Clothing.

The ticketed opening is Friday January 12th, and the exhibition runs through February 18th, more info here

here is a teaser of what I'm working on for the show, hope to see you there!

fine tuning upper joints

test fit of all pieces

cutting out the final arches

final parts

joining the "feet"

routing the bevels

assembled and fully shaped, time for drilling the holes for the seat and sanding

drilling jig

sanded and finished with oil, time for the seat

Below are a few photos of the pieces in progress, there is still quite a bit of work to do.

There is also some online content for each segment, and I was featured in an audio slideshow that goes along with the Creative Class segment which you can watch below.

Creative Class from WDET on Vimeo.

Come see kem3D and other area artists and designers at Re:View Contemporary's TOMORROW Friday the 23rd in the  exclusive, yet temporary, 5th floor space, for the Re:Design event as part of the DDF.

Saturday, you can see a bit of my, and many other's creative processees at CCS in detroit, at the Creative Process happening

another cool thing to check out on Saturday, amonst everything else going on is the Center for Abandoned Letterhead

...and Sunday, wash it all down with a fine bier at the Tashmoo Biergarten

I have one piece among over 100 in The Actual Size Biennial being put on by the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) at the Whitdell Arts Gallery in Mexicantown.

The 1st annual Detroit Design Festival will run between September 21st-28th with various art and design related happenings, shows, lectures and more. I will have work at the Re:View Contemporary Gallery's one night exhibit, Re:Design 2011, as well as at CCS' New Center Campus in the Creative Process exhibit.

The 10th Annual Tour de Troit rides on September 24th. I've been helping design flyers, posters, and t-shirts for this bike ride since 2006, its a great time, and we are planning on over 5000 riders this year! Registration including a t-shirt ends today, but you can still sign up for the ride unitl at least next week I believe.

Popps Packing will be having a fundraising event involving every Cub Scout's favorite project coming up in the beginning of October, that I'll be participating in, so keep an eye out for that.

Last but not least, the 3rd Annual Detroit Cornhole Tournament ("cornhole" for the uninititated, is essentially a beanbag toss game) Saturday October 1st,for which I had the pleasure of helping with the build out of 20 pairs of cornhole boards.

What I didn't know then, was that all three episodes will be airing Thursday night back to back (each hour long episode starting at 8, 9, and 10) and that I will be in the third/last episode. I learned all of this last night at the world premiere of the series held at the magnificent Detroit Film Theater, put on by Planet Green and series sponsor General Motors, where they showed one episode of the series, which just happened to be the one I was in! I think the series is pretty well done, there are a few small misconceptions about Detroit in general that weren't exactly debunked (like the ol' no grocery stores in the city myth), but Its all really well intentioned anyways.

here is the official trailer for the series, I hope can tune in and enjoy the show