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Elán Centers for Rejuvenation
Sassoon Salon
Tenpachi Salon
Hotel George / Bistro Bis
Helsinki Eat and Joy
Klaus K Hotel
Maryland Office of Tourism Development
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Carpenter Co.
Pittsburg AIDS Task Force
Washington Antiques Show
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Smith With Style Baltimore Sun Baltimore Alternative Baltimore City Paper Better Homes & Gardens Bombaysapphire.com Bon Appétit Capitol File CBS, The Morning Show Chesapeake Home Chesapeake Bay Chicago Tribune Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Magazine CityBeat City Magazine Clear CNN MONEY CSPA - The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Cultureflux.com DART Design Art Daily DC One DC Modern Luxury Delta Sky Details Dwell East Hampton Star Elle Décor express The Farber Foundation Cuban Art News Food & Wine Fox TV The Guardian Georgetowner Her Home & Design House & Garden Television (HG-TV) Home/Style House Beautiful Interior Design Interiors Ladders La Lettre de la Photographie La Opinión La Tercera Latin Profiles Lucky Lush Luxe.Daily Luxe Interiors + Design Marti Noticias Metropolis Metropolitan Home Morning Edition, NPR New England Home New York Post New York Times: Arts, House & Home, Dining In New York Times T Magazine One PBS, WETA-TV PDN - Photo District News The Photo Review Photographer's Forum Pittsburgh Post Gazette Portland Press Herald PreservationNation - National Trust for Historic Preservation Preview: Coldwell Banker Rolling Stone San Francisco Chronicle Smithsonian Magazine Shop! Etc. Surface Travel & Leisure Yatzer VM + SD Voice of America Wallpaper Washington Blade Washington Business Journal Washington City Paper Washington Flyer Washington Home & Design Washington Jewish Week Washington Life Washingtonian Washington Post: Style, Home, Weekend, Business Washington Post Magazine washingtonpost.com Washington Spaces Washington Times Washington Woman Where Pioneers in experiential marketing and community engagement, we worked with such luxury design retail brands as Boffi, Apartment Zero, Relish, Contemporaria, Vega, and Vesta Home, concepting and creating targeted event experiences that established these lifestyle brands as experts and destinations for immersion in new currents in design. We created, managed, and publicized events, panel discussions, chef demonstrations, by-invitation creative class dinners for stylemakers and hi-profile design community guests, and lecture series, securing such design stars as Piero Lissoni, Karim Rashid, Angela Adams, and Blu Dot. Sponsors and partnerships negotiated for these events include The American Institute of Architects, DC Architecture Week, The Embassy of the Netherlands, Metropolis, Surface, Metropolitan Home, and Elle Decor magazines, Kimpton Hotels, Bombay Sapphire, Bang & Olufsen, and Sassoon Salon Washington. For the Hotel George and Amtrak’s Acela Express, we concepted and produced Destination DC Design, a four-day FAM press trip designed to shift national press perceptions of Washington as a buttoned down bureaucratic town through direct experience of the neighborhoods and the style businesses shaping the new DC. Our goal was to show the advance edge of DC to new audiences while positioning The Hotel George as Washington 's first and premier boutique hotel. We engaged as sponsors eighteen downtown restaurants, theaters, spas, museums, and design businesses. We scheduled "Design Matters," Vega's ongoing series of designer events, to coincide with Destination DC Design. We launched the FAM (and Vega's event) on Penn Quarter's Third Thursday, the monthly evening celebration of art and design organized by the Downtown Arts Committee that attracts record crowds from the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area to revitalized downtown DC. Targeted press included style, design, shelter, and travel publications. Represented publications included: City Magazine, Dwell, Post, Arrive, The Delta Shuttle Sheet, The Washington Post Style section, Washington Entertains, The Boston Globe, The World & I, and Wine Spectator. During a two-year engagement with FOTOFOCUS Cincinnati, a new nonprofit photography organization, we worked on organization identity and the development, launch, branding, and programming of an upcoming month-long photography festival. First serving on the advisory committee, PBC became FOTOFOCUS spokesperson, promoting the organization and its forthcoming festival to city leaders, regional tourism bureau, and the 70 museums, galleries, universities, and neighborhood arts centers, that became exhibition venues. We developed all website messaging, video scriptwriting, press materials, and media outreach. We researched and executed a $100,000. national advertising campaign with 2.5 million impressions, negotiating all media buys and executing insertion orders. We edited, wrote content, and provided production management for a 64-page magazine inserted regionally in the New York Times and in CityBeat reaching an audience of 63,000. We brought on board 6 media partners -- The Cincinnati Enquirer, CityBeat, WNKU, Cincinnati Magazine, Aequai, and WKRC TV, negotiating partnership parameters. Highlights of secured press coverage include 3 New York Times placements, articles in 40 online magazines and blogs, and 42 placements in Cincinnati-based publications. Over 20,000 people attended FOTOFOCUS exhibitions and programming. We launched A-Line Magazine, a new women’s magazine with a unique niche among Greater Cincinnati media with its focus on locally sourced fashion and beauty trends, local style-maker profiles, and coverage of cultural, culinary, and crafty women and organizations. We developed all messaging and generated awareness in the media and in general audiences, as well as providing editorial staff media training and sales force talking points and training. Secured media coverage included WNKU Morning Drive, WCPO-TV 24- Good Morning Tri-State, and monthly editor-in-chief guest spots on Fox19 Morning News with Sheila Gray. As part of its Women Excel (WE) initiative, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber named A-Line Magazine a 2011 WE Celebrate award finalist in the category Marketing to Women: Best Campaign of the Year. Negotiated event collaborations include Essencha Tea House, Krohn Conservatory, Eat Well, Paul Mitchell The School Cincinnati, and Brazee Street Studios. In addition to ongoing editorial consultation, as editor-at-large, Turner-Yamamoto created, produced and wrote “House Calls”, a regular feature spread taking readers inside the homes and lives of Cincinnati's most fascinating high-profile women. We worked with interior designer Liz Levin to define and distill the new Liz Levin Nesting brand. We wrote the website for the new online design resource and launched the business to local and nationally- targeted consumer and trade audiences. Secured media coverage included, House Beautiful, Better Homes & Gardens, DC Modern Luxury, The Washington Post, The Denver Post, The Chicago Examiner, AP and Creative wire stories, and viral blog coverage. The City of Helsinki asked us to come on board as a collaborative partner in developing Invitation to Helsinki, a program that aimed to build lasting relationships between the national capitals of Washington, DC and Helsinki, Finland. With its compressed time frame, diverse programming, and demand for ongoing creative problem-solving, the project showcases the flexibility and creative muscle we pride ourselves on offering our clients. We worked with Pluto Finland, a Helsinki-based production company, to research and identify the 12 talented Washingtonians in fields from design, to children’s education and the environment and beyond, who would travel by invitation to Helsinki on individual journeys. We interviewed participants and developed their stories and wrote additional text for the program websites www.myhelsinki.fi and www.invitationtohelsinki.fi. We helped develop content and text for MyHelsinki, the exhibition on view at the Embassy of Finland, Washington, DC during May 2009 spotlighting the Invitation to Helsinki program participants’ Helsinki discoveries and impressions. We collaborated with the Embassy of Finland to develop programming, drive awareness, and attendance for the more than 30 events planned during the exhibition’s run, including negotiating the Embassy’s hosting of DC Modern Luxury’s pre-party for the White House Correspondents Dinner. Nearly 8000 visitors experienced MyHelsinki. Our targeted media outreach yielded feature coverage in The Washington Post: Style and Weekend, Post Express, DC Modern Luxury, Hemispheres, Where, Georgetowner, Greg’slist.com, and Bisnow.com, among others. The accompanying advertising plan executed by PBC provided strategic placements supporting secured editorial coverage. We worked with green architectural pioneer Travis Price to promote his book The Archaeology of Tomorrow, published by California publisher Insight Editions, and to position Price as a noted national speaker. We leveraged the book's publication to expand Price's reputation as a lecturer with a visionary message about sustainable architecture for the 21st century and to create new venues for speaker events. To control costs, we conceived, wrote, oversaw, and continue to manage www.archaeologyoftomorrow.com a website designed to function as an electronic press kit to promote the book and Price's upcoming speaking engagements. Events secured to date include lectures at the National Building Museum, The Explorers' Club, The Urban Land Institute, The Telluride Film Festival, The AIA/NY, the AIA/DC, The National Geographic Society, and The Aspen Institute. We secured press exposure in more than 30 publications and radio interviews, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Metropolitan Home, and AIA Magazine, Dwell, Plenty, The Kojo Nmamdi Show, The Mark Steiner Show, Maryland Public Radio, National Geographic Radio, Minneapolis Public Radio, and National Geographic World Talk. We placed The Archaeology of Tomorrow in key bookstores throughout the country, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the National Gallery of Art (DC), and Magers and Quinn (Minneapolis), among others. We worked with Gavin Benjamin, a designer based in New York and Pittsburgh, and his 718: line, to craft his message, develop his packaging, and do mini-launches of his furniture line nationally and in the Pittsburgh market, tying media releases to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and the launch of new lines. A one-man start-up with limited capital, we collaborated with Gavin to create a low budget package with fresh appeal and a media plan that would expand in scope as the company grew. Tissage du Monde, a new company producing and importing Tibetan carpets from Nepal, approached us for business development, marketing, and a branding plan that would separate them from their competitors and introduce their product to the trade and to consumers. Involved from name inception onward, we worked with the graphic designer to develop their visual message while we conceived and developed the defining identity of bringing together a diverse group of prominent designers from different cultures and design fields, including fashion, furniture, and interiors to create contemporary interpretations of this age-old tradition of rug-making. We researched and approached such designers as London-based fashion designer Shirin Guild, French furniture designer Douglas Mont, and British graphic designer Peter Saville, Madrid-based interior designer Daniela Gray, and New York-based interior designer Stephen Watkins, all of whom are now designing Tissage collections. We researched and approached Dutch product designers Marcel Wanders and Hella Jongerius, and jewelry designer Itazu, traveling to The Netherlands with a Tissage principal for initial meetings. Tissage is now in negotiations with these designers. Press coverage includes two features in Interior Design, V, ID, The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, and Where. Mod Decor, a contemporary home furnishings store in Gaithersburg, MD, approached us about repackaging their identity and re-launching the store. Through interviews with Nidhi Gupta,one of the store's owners and the personality that would be put forth to media and public, her love of color and the origins of that passion in her childhood in Northern India emerged as a key element in her story. Together we decided that fuchsia, the unusual color choice for a favorite aunt's wedding dress, should be the store's signature color, defining the physical space as well as the visual and verbal identity. The store was repainted with accent walls in fuchsia. We brought on board a visual merchandiser to refocus and edit merchandise display.The graphic designer we brought in was asked to develop logo and collateral materials that would reinforce the store description I had written (attached here for your review) and capture the sense of energy and play that define Nidhi's design esthetic. We developed the tagline "Life by Design" for the logo. The collateral materials, bright white paper with fuchsia logo and fuchsia back, were delivered to the press in a bright white folder. When opened, the package glows, perfectly conveying the spirit of "masti" the intoxication with life that defines Nidhi's style. Placements include Elle Décor, Washington Post Sunday Source, washingtonpost.com, Washington Business Journal. In this video, millennials living in Los Angeles discuss their thoughts about wealth, and we show you their underlying emotions. In this video, millennials living in Los Angeles discuss their thoughts about banks, and we show you their underlying emotions. Washington, DC — Syria’s Lost Generation, a multi-media installation drawn from an ongoing series documenting Syrian teen refugees by Los Angeles-based photographer Elena Dorfman is on view at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum through January 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMY-IulCMA Metzger began his career as an attorney before discovering his true calling as a furniture designer/maker and painter. Coming to the arts through the study of literature and philosophy, he identifies his processes with anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Bricoleur, the handyman working with a limited set of tools, methods, and materials to affect alchemical transformations. Whether in the coalescence of a remembered landscape emerging in the materiality of paint, or in the transformation of the patina of woods and metals, there’s a sense of magic and alchemy involved in his practice. selected placements
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Design and Lifestyle Events
Hotel George
FOTOFOCUS Cincinnati
santeri tuori | forest curated by judith turner-yamamoto
doug + mike starn
alec soth
jocelyn allen
william albert allard
A-Line Magazine
Liz Levin Nesting
DC Modern Luxury - January 2010
MyHelsinki
photos by angie seckinger
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Travis Price, Architect, Philosopher, Educator
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We worked with Gavin to secure and off-site event at Auto, bringing in Bombay Sapphire as liquor sponsor for the event. Media coverage included a profile in the 2001design issue of City Magazine distributed during the magazine's ICFF-sponsored events, and, in Pittsburgh, event and feature coverage in the homes & gardens section of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Shady Ave. Magazine.
ICFF 2002-
We secured a six-page spread in the 2002 spring design issue of City, a product profile in Clear Magazine's design issue, and inclusion in a Washington Post feature on innovative table designs.
ICFF 2003-
We positioned Gavin as a lead exhibitor at Downtown at the Chelsea Hotel , a hip alternative trade show running concurrent with ICFF and focusing on emerging designers from the States and abroad. We brought him on board as a designer for Tissage du Monde to showcase his design talent and build market and manufacturer exposure in different media. Coverage included ID Magazine's ICFF Picks, Interior Design Spring Market tabloid (furniture and rugs), V, inclusion in an 8-page Interior Design feature on rugs and carpets, ICFF pick, washingtonpost.com.Tissage du Monde
rug design by stephen watkins
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What Millennials really want at work
A new study reveals what you probably already know: If you're a Millennial with a job, work isn't living up to your expectations.
By Anna BahneyLADDERS
Survey: Millennials want passion more than money
By Nara ShinThe Cuba Archive by TRIA GIOVAN
A rare look at the country's day-to-day during the '90s, captured by the photographer over 11 visits
By Nara ShinThe Guardian | Art and design
A country teetering on the precipice': Castro's Cuba in pictures, September 20 2017The Cuba Archive by TRIA GIOVAN
A rare look at the country's day-to-day during the '90s, captured by the photographer over 11 visits
By Nara ShinELENA DORFMAN'S PORTRAITS OF SYRIA'S LOST GENERATION:
Putting a face to the figure of 4 million refugees
By Tema StaufferPHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES IMAGES, STORIES OF SYRIA’S TEENAGE REFUGEES
By Suzanne PollakUNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM SHOWCASES ELENA DORFMAN MULTI-MEDIA INSTALLATION FROM SYRIA’S LOST GENERATION SERIES
PORTRAITS AND AUDIO RECORDINGS OF TEEN REFUGEES ON VIEW THROUGH JANUARY 2016 IN THE SIMON-SKJODT CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE
The Syrian conflict, which killed over 150,000 people and drove over 11 million people–half the country’s population — from their homes, has become what the New York Times recently called one of the worst refugee crises in generations and the worst migration crisis since World War II. In 2013 the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees) asked Dorfman to tell from an artistic and visually compelling perspective a story about this crisis that would stand apart from other photographs being produced in the region.
Making portraits and audio recordings throughout Lebanon, Turkey, Kurdistan (Iraq) and Jordan, Dorfman, a fine art photographer whose work has exposed marginalized communities in a way that brings them respect and attention, found herself most compelled by the teenagers. Syria’s Lost Generation portrays a physics champion, a published poet, a religious scholar, and a girl who simply misses the particular taste of her favorite food from home. Each speaks of powerful longing and frustration. With little opportunity for study or meaningful work, they all speak about their lives passing them by and futures that now seem lost. They are, indeed, the lost generation of Syrians, sitting out young adulthood in exile.
“We live in a hyper-connected world with a seeming endless access to information,” says Cameron Hudson, director of the Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide. “However, the power of that imagery is often lost by itself. The stunning images and individual stories Dorfman captured while covering the Syrian refugee crisis has put a personal face and voice to this violent conflict and the suffering of so many innocent people.”
ABOUT THE MUSEUM
A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. Its far-reaching educational programs and global impact are made possible by generous donors. The Museum is open every day except Yom Kippur (September 23, 2015) and Christmas Day (December 25). The Permanent Exhibition and special exhibitions are open from 10 a.m. to 5:20 p.m., with extended hours in the spring. See Museum Hours for details. For more information, visit www.ushmm.org.MATTHEW METZGER MATERIALITY COLLECTION PREVIEWS AT 14TH ANNUAL ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST HOME DESIGN SHOW, NEW YORK, NY
COLLECTION FEATURES CUSTOM AND LIMITED EDITION SCULPTURAL FURNISHINGS AND ATMOSPHERIC PAINTINGS
Furnishings in the Materiality collection celebrate the inherent imperfections of such woods as bleached and charred oak, bleached maple, and walnut, cast bronze, brass, corten steel, marble, and tumbled limestone and the unsettling of objects that emerges from the juxtaposition of these materials. Committed to clean lines, Metzger avoids unnecessary adornment and elements. His work embodies a quiet yet dramatic presence and speaks of the strength of such enduring influences as George Nakashima and Danish design, but is distinguished by his modern interpretation of understated beauty, combined materials, and reverence for nature. Based in southwestern Ohio and working with limited machinery, Metzger sources woods from Amish millers, fashions his metals in local foundries, and develops his own acid patinas, bleaches, and charring techniques. Inspired by wood’s integrity and unpredictability, he enjoys the creative and technical challenges of figured woods with their natural variants and patterns. Rescued at the right moment, the wood remains sound but marked by natural processes. “It’s about having respect for the wood, attunement to timing, and knowing when and how to work it,” says Metzger. “Of course it’s more complicated than that; there’s poetry to the process of calling out its inherent beauty.” The surface of a maple and cast bronze side table, made from spalted maple hand-bleached over 20 times, draws its particular and unpredictable beauty from black streaks throughout the wood formed by partial decay, or spalting, the activity of bacteria in the wood. A single red brass butterfly affixed over a natural knot and the cast bronze base create unlikely context. The wood is finished with hand-rubbed waxes.
Neither abstract nor figurative, Metzger’s paintings emerge from the coalescence of sense memories from nature remembered and imagined. “When you walk in fog, or try to hold on to the passage of a scudding cloud, what does that feel like? The paintings are about these and other ephemeral moments and sensing our place in that immensity.” Working with the traditional mediums of oil paint and egg tempera he makes, Metzger builds his images of clouds, light, and air with sometimes as many as 50 layers. In the work’s evocation of images that belong to the passing moment, to the world of change, Metzger captures and holds for us a poignant stillness.Channel 12 Good Morning CINCINNATI at Sanctuary DermaSpa!