Helms Design District

Lecture and Discussion with Lawrence Scarpa of Brooks + Scarpa
2018-04-05 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Thursday, April 5, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design are excited to host a presentation and discussion with Lawrence Scarpa of Brooks + Scarpa. Lawrence Scarpa has garnered international acclaim for the creative use of conventional materials in unique and unexpected ways. He is also considered a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainable design.
He is the recipient of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award in Architecture and was also awarded the State of California and National American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award. Over the last ten years, Mr. Scarpa’s firm has received more than 50 major design awards, including twenty-one National AIA Awards, Record Houses, Record Interiors, the Rudy Bruner Prize, five AIA Committee on the Environment “Top Ten Green Building” Awards and the World Habitat Award, one of ten firms selected worldwide. He has also received the Gold Metal from the AIA Los Angeles, the Lifetime achievement awards from Interior Design Magazine and the AIA California Council and the National AIA Collaborative Achievement Award
Mr. Scarpa’s is also the co-founder of the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Livable Places and the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute.
He in currently on the faculty at the University of Southern California and has taught and lectured at the university level for more than two decades. Some of those institutions include UNC Charlotte, Harvard University, UCLA, SCI-arc, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute Livable Places, Inc.; a nonprofit development and public policy organization dedicated to building mixed-use housing and to help develop more sustainable and livable communities.
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Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Photos: Above: Lawrence Scarpa and AngleLake. Below: SUMA

Series Schedule:
Tuesday May 1: LADG – Andrew Holder
Thursday May 3: Julia Körner
Thursday May 17: Spinagu – Maxi Spina and Jia Gu
Thursday May 24: Forward-slash/Back-slash – Christoph Kumpusch
Thursday May 31: Form:uLA – Bryan Cantley

Short Films Walk: LA
2018-03-10 10:00 - 19:00 | Helms Design District, 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Free
On Saturday, March 10, from 10am to 7pm, Helms Bakery District will host a day of FREE screenings of over 24 short films on architecture and design. Pop into any of the six participating showrooms on the walk, including Arcana Books, Harbour Outdoor, H.D. Buttercup, Room & Board, Scandinavian Designs, and Vitra to experience a unique program of films curated by Architecture & Design Film Festival. The films will be shown on a loop and play throughout the day so guests have an opportunity to see dozens of film shorts as they walk from showroom to showroom.
The SFW:LA will conclude with the screening of a feature length film, Building Hope: The Maggie’s Centres, followed by a conversation with Frances Anderton, host of KCRW’s Design and Architecture along with special guests. Seating is limited for this portion of the day. Please RSVP.
More info here

Join us for a Lecture and Discussion with Chris Lowe and Axel Schmitzberger of Domaen
2018-03-08 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Thursday, March 8, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm Helms Bakery District and the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design are excited to host a presentation and discussion with Chris Lowe and Axel Schmitzberger of Domaen. Domaen is a multidisciplinary design-build practice with its seat in Los Angeles. Domaen practices versatile, multidisciplinary design. It is as much a field of action and thought as it is an award-winning full-service practice. The work of Domaen has been widely published and appears frequently in film and commercials.
Chris Lowe, with years of hands-on construction industry experience and widespread recognition in the art world, founded Domaen — the full-scale, multidisciplinary design, construction, and project management company. Prior to Domaen, Chris was a successful artist in Seattle. Having exhibited his work successfully, he applied himself in the construction trade and extended these talents to production and set design upon moving to Southern California. His work has subsequently been showcased in notable local and international publications.
Axel Schmitzberger is a licensed architect and partner at Domaen. He holds a tenured position as Professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona with emphasis on design and digital construction methods. Having been widely published, Axel has lectured and taught extensively in the United States, Europe, and Asia. With an award-winning career in architecture and graphic design spanning over two decades he has contributed and developed the architectural and visual identity of Domaen.
Introduced and moderated by Stephen Phillips, AIA, PhD, Principal of Stephen Phillips Architects (SPARCHS) and professor, director, Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Free Parking is available at the corner of Helms Ave. and Venice Blvd.
Series Schedule:
Thursday April 5: Brooks + Scarpa – Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarp
Tuesday May 1: LADG – Andrew Holder
Thursday May 3: Julia Körner
Thursday May 17: Spinagu – Maxi Spina and Jia Gu
Thursday May 24: Forward-slash/Back-slash – Christoph Kumpusch
Thursday May 31: Form:uLA – Bryan Cantley

Arcana Books Welcomes Eames Demetrios for Storytelling + Book Signing
2018-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, March 3rd from 4 to 6pm, artist, writer, and geographer-at-large Eames Demetrios joins Arcana: Books on the Arts for an intimate storytelling experience and exclusive first book signing of his most recent limited edition publication Kcymaerxthaere: The Story so Far…(Folio 1).
The two-volume set highlights the first 138 installations that exist in Kcymaerxthaere (Ky-MAIR-icks-THEER), the parallel world started by Demetrios in 2003. Through imagery, text, and artwork the publication offers an analog way to experience the global art project and serves as a tool to share this endeavor with the global community that makes the project possible. Sales of the publication will fund its translation into the 23 languages that appear in the installations.
Kcymaerxthaere tells the stories of a parallel world through books, performances, Internet, embroideries, guided collaborations, but perhaps most distinctively through installations—especially physical markers (usually in stone, concrete, or bronze) and far more elaborate historical sites, which can be up to an acre in size, that honor the parallel world in our linear world.
One can think of Kcymaerxthaere as an illuminated manuscript where every page is in a different location. Come explore this rich parallel world and see how the stories connect and extend!
All welcome. RSVP encouraged.

Join us in Celebrating Award-Winning Journalist, Lynell George
2018-03-03 14:00 - 16:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Helms Bakery is excited to partner with Angel City Press in celebration of the release of a collection of essays by award-winning journalist, Lynell George. Join us on Saturday, March 3rd from 2:00 to 4:30 pm for a not-to-be-missed author meet & greet plus book signing of After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame.
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame by Lynell George is the result of her years of contemplating and writing about the arts, culture, and social issues of Los Angeles, always with an emphasis on place and the identity of the people who live in — or leave — L.A. As a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly, Lynell George explored place after place that makes the city tick, met person after person, and encountered the cumulative heart of the city. After/Image is her collection of essays, evocative photographs, profiles, and reportage focused on Los Angeles beneath-the-surface—both the past and the here-and-now.

About the Author
Lynell George is a journalist and essayist. After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame is her first book of essays and photography, exploring the city where she grew up. She is also the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels, a collection of features and essays drawn from her reportage. As a staff writer for both the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly , she focused on social issues, human behavior, and identity politics, as well as visual arts, music, and literature. She taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, in 2013 was named a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellow, and in 2017 received the Huntington Library’s Alan Jutzi Fellowship for her studies of California writer Octavia E. Butler. Her writings have appeared in several essay collections. A contributing arts-and-culture columnist for KCET|Artbound, her commentary has also been featured in numerous news and feature outlets including Boom: A Journal of California, Smithsonian, Zócalo Public Square, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vibe, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Essence, Black Clock, and Ms. Her liner notes for Otis Redding Live At The Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings won a 2017 GRAMMY.
Photo by Aaron Salcido

Cal Poly LA Metro Program Welcomes Architect Jonathan Ward to the Helms Design Center
2018-02-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Thursday, February 22nd from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, please join us for a presentation and discussion with moderator Stephen Phillips and architect, Jonathan Ward of NBBJ, in collaboration with the Cal Poly LA Metro Program in Architecture and Urban Design. This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP Here
Architect Jonathan Ward has dramatically advanced building design and the experiences they create, leading to unique and unexpected beauty. His body of work – which includes projects for Samsung, Tencent, Microsoft, Alibaba, Reebok, Wellcome Trust, Telenor and UCLA — challenges client expectations and uses a combination of research and intuition to uncover compelling design solutions.
Jonathan has cultivated a learning-based design process. He views each design project as an opportunity to develop a specific idea or point of view focused on generating a true sense of community and connectivity. Since 1996, Jonathan has worked within the framework of design practice NBBJ, where he currently serves as global design partner. During his tenure at the firm, Jonathan has evolved the practice into one built on a global network of experts with small creative design workshops that deliver insightful, fresh and innovative buildings and experiences.
Free Parking is available on the Helms Bakery campus located at Venice Boulevard and Helms Avenue.

AIGA Hosts and Art Deco Lettering Workshop with Nick Misani - Afternoon Session
2018-02-10 14:00 - 18:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, February 10th from 2:00 to 6:00 pm, we are excited to partner with AIGA to host an Art Deco hand lettering workshop with Nick Misani. This four-hour class will quickly cover the foundations of lettering and briskly segue into dramatic uppercase letterforms, unexpected ligatures, geometric scripts, and ornamentation. You will learn three Art Deco hand lettering styles to prepare you for your final project: a postcard for a 1920/30s jazz club.
You’ll leave the workshop with:
– A lettering piece that is both fresh and on-trend (while still being rooted in history) and ready for its Instagram closeup.
– A general knowledge of this glitzy time in design history as well as a list of resources to continue learning about Art Deco typography and design.
– All the skills you need to infuse the rest of your work with some Jazz-Age glamour.
TICKET PRICING
Members (Sustaining & above): $140
Members (Contributing & Supporting): $175
Non-Members: $200
(Workshop is limited to 24 students.)
PURCHASE TICKETS
PARKING & TRANSPORATION
Public and street parking is available. Public transit and ride sharing are also encouraged. For public transportation visit metro.net for schedules.

AIGA Hosts and Art Deco Lettering Workshop with Nick Misani - Morning Session
2018-02-10 09:00 - 13:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, February 10th from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, we are excited to partner with AIGA to host an Art Deco hand lettering workshop with Nick Misani. This four-hour class will quickly cover the foundations of lettering and briskly segue into dramatic uppercase letterforms, unexpected ligatures, geometric scripts, and ornamentation. You will learn three Art Deco hand lettering styles to prepare you for your final project: a postcard for a 1920/30s jazz club.
You’ll leave the workshop with:
– A lettering piece that is both fresh and on-trend (while still being rooted in history) and ready for its Instagram closeup.
– A general knowledge of this glitzy time in design history as well as a list of resources to continue learning about Art Deco typography and design.
– All the skills you need to infuse the rest of your work with some Jazz-Age glamour.
TICKET PRICING
Members (Sustaining & above): $140
Members (Contributing & Supporting): $175
Non-Members: $200
(Workshop is limited to 24 students.)
PURCHASE TICKETS
PARKING & TRANSPORATION
Public and street parking is available. Public transit and ride sharing are also encouraged. For public transportation visit metro.net for schedules.

Head Over to Room & Board and See What's New
2018-01-28 11:00 - 19:00, 2018-01-27 11:00 - 19:00 | Room&Board, 3231 Helms Avenue, Culver City, CA, 90034
Free
The Room & Board team spent the entire night giving their showroom a big refresh and it’s time to unveil what’s new!
On Saturday, January 27 and Sunday, January 28, please join them for a special open house weekend to explore their 2018 collection of beautifully designed, artisan-crafted furniture and accessories. Discover modern design inspiration for your home, enjoy light refreshments, and enter to win a $1000 Room & Board gift card.

Arcana Books Hosts Lyle Ashton Harris for a Book Signing + Discussion
2018-01-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, January 27th between 4:00 and 6:00pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts to celebrate Lyle Ashton Harris’ new Aperture monograph Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, along with a lively and engaging presentation with guests Walead Beshty, Charles Gaines, and Amelia Jones.
Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, a radical cultural scene emerged across the globe, finding expression in the galleries, nightclubs, and bedrooms of New York, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. In Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, the artist’s archive of 35mm Ektachrome images are presented alongside journal entries and recollections by additional contributors coalescing in a presentation of what Harris has described as “ephemeral moments and emblematic figures… against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization.” The Ektachrome Archive “constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity, desire, sexuality, and loss” and was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
About the Panelists
Born in the Bronx in 1965, Lyle Ashton Harris received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studies Program. His work has been exhibited worldwide including at the Whitney Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 52nd Venice Biennial, and São Paulo Biennial. He currently is an associate professor of art at New York University, and is represented by New York’s Salon 94.
Born in London in 1976, Walead Beshty is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. Beshty was an Associate Professor in the Graduate Art Department at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and has taught at numerous schools including UCLA, UC Irvine, CalArts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the MFA Program at Bard College. He is renowned for his unique conceptual approach to photography and sculpture and emphasis on the conditions of the production and circulation of images and artworks.
Charles Gaines received his MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1967. In 2013 he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and presented the critically acclaimed solo exhibition Notes on Social Justice at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. In 2012, Gaines was the subject of a mid-career survey at the Pomona College Museum of Art and the Pitzer College Art Gallery in Claremont, California. His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been a full-time faculty member of the School of Art at CalArts since 1989. He currently resides in Los Angeles, and is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Paula Cooper Gallery.

Amelia Jones is the Robert A. Day Professor in Art and Design and Vice-Dean of Critical Studies at USC’s Roski School of Art and Design. Trained in art history, film theory, and performance studies, and widely read in philosophy and identity theory, Jones is known for her work elaborating a queer, anti-racist, feminist history and theory of modern and contemporary Euro-American visual arts.
UPCOMING EVENTS at Arcana
Saturday, March 3rd, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
EAMES DEMETRIOS: KCYMAERXTAERE
April – Date and Time TBD
JESSICA ANTOLA: CIRCADIAN LANDSCAPE

Best Wishes From Our Family to Yours!
2017-12-19 - 2018-01-02 | Helms Design District, 8800 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States

The Unmarked Door Presents "The Heart of Winter", an Immersive Holiday Tale
2017-12-17, 2017-12-16, 2017-12-16 - 2017-12-17 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, December 16th and Sunday December 17th, join us in welcoming The Unmarked Door for a special presentation of The Heart of Winter, an immersive evening created by Syrie Moskowitz (The Midnight Frolic) and Golden Globe and Emmy nominated composer, Rolfe Kent (Dexter, Sideways, Legally Blonde, Up in the Air).
It starts with A Winter Reunion…
Lanterns, Polar Bears, and Professor Gustavson from Advanced Pyrotechnics and Theoretical Lasers? Reunite with your former college classmates on a Winter Camping Adventure. Get ready for team games around the campfire, a rousing snowball fight, and waltzing to the backdrop of falling snow, all while helping Sebastian figure out his love life in a Winter Wonderland. It’s “an enchanted musical tale for the holiday” -Noah Nelson, No Proscenium
Performance Schedule
Saturday, December 16
6:30pm and 9:00pm
Sunday, December 17
5:00 pm and 8:00pm
Information and to Purchase Tickets

A Special Discussion with Alec Byrne and Hugh Brown at Arcana Books this Weekend
2017-12-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Sunday, December 17th between 4 and 6 pm, join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a very special discussion between Alec Byrne and Grammy award-winning art director, designer, and artist Hugh Brown followed by a book signing.
In addition to the spectacular boxed Insight Editions London Rock – The Unseen Archive, Arcana will have copies of the special überEditions “Signature Editions” – each limited to twenty-five copies only with one of five matted silver gelatin photographic prints of Byrne’s iconic images of the halcyon days of Rock.
Photographer Alec Byrne covered the British rock and roll scene from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s – the height of the rock revolution. Legendary performers such as The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, Bob Marley, T. Rex, The Doors, The Faces, The Hollies, and David Bowie passed through Swinging London and provided provocative fodder for the prolific young lensman. Byrne’s resulting archive of rock-and-roll photos disappeared out of sight and into storage for close to four decades before being reintroduced to the world in late 2012 with an acclaimed one-night show in Los Angeles attended by more than one thousand people. Since then, the work has been featured during the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and acquired by London’s National Portrait Gallery. Through rare live performance images, intimate portraits, and candid captures of the scene, Alec Byrne: The Unseen Archive – the photographer’s first feature-length book – brings the era into stunning focus, painting an evocative picture of an inimitable time and place.

Arcana Hosts a Discussion + Book Signing with Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck & Manfred Heiting
2017-12-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, December 16th between 4 and 6 pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts for a discussion with Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck and Manfred Heiting, celebrating their two significant new books from Steidl.
VIEWS OF JAPAN FROM THE GLORIA KATZ & WILLARD HUYCK COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS: Most collectors have their own unique attractions and approaches to the objects of their collecting. This exquisitely produced volume features the adventures of Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck – two renowned filmmakers who began collecting Japanese photography more than a decade ago – whose ongoing hunt seems indeed like a Hollywood movie. A memoir about their love of Japanese photography and their experiences collecting it, Views of Japan makes available a selection of rare masterpieces from their extensive collection along with a personal “script” recounting how they scouted, debated, selected, and ultimately acquired many of the works. This was no small undertaking considering the rarity of some of the images, particularly those taken before the 1970s. Since 2002, they have assembled an encyclopedic collection of images from the 19th Century to the present, including key works by Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Hamaya, Eikoh Hosoe, Miyako Ishiuchi, Kikuji Kawada, Daido Moriyama, Ikko Narahara, Issei Suda, Shomei Tomatsu, and Shoji Ueda.
Their collection was shaped into Views of Japan by photographic historian Manfred Heiting, the designer and editor of extensive surveys of German, Soviet, and Japanese photobooks. The resulting volume is a distinctly personal presentation of one of the greatest private holdings of Japanese photography in the world, and an accessible look at a practice long ignored by Western histories.
THE JAPANESE PHOTOBOOK 1912-1990: Edited by Manfred Heiting – who has also designed and edited extensive surveys of German and Soviet photobooks, “The Japanese Photobook 1912-1990” illustrates the development of photography in twentieth Century as seen in the photo publications of Japan. Documenting successively the early Modernist influences of European and American Pictorialism, the German Bauhaus and Imperial military propaganda, to the complete collapse and destruction of the country in 1945, it then records a new beginning with the unique self-determination of a young generation of Post-War photographers and visual artists highlighted by the “Provoke” style, as well as protest and war documentation of the late 1950s to the early ’70s – the signature “Japanese photobook” – as we have come to know it.
This massive, authoritative, and highly visual undertaking presents an essay by Ryuichi Kaneko – the leading historian of Japanese photobooks, contributions from Heiting, Fujimura Satomi, Duncan Forbes, Mitsuda Yuri, Iizawa Kotaro, Shirayama Mari, and Matthew S. Witkovsky, and detailed information and illustrations of over four hundred photographically-illustrated publications. It is the most extensive English-language survey of Japanese photobooks of this period, and a crucial step in making the history of Japanese photography – long-neglected by the Western canon – accessible to the English-speaking world.

MEGA Photobook Saturday at Arcana on 12/9!
2017-12-09 15:00 - 19:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, December 9th between 3 and 7 pm, stop by Arcana: Books on the Arts for a very special afternoon celebrating some of the year’s best photobooks with signings and discussions as part of a month-long collaboration with one of the world’s finest photobook publishers, MACK. An exhibition featuring highlights from their stellar program continues through December 24th.
SCHEDULE
3 to 5 pm
ED + DEANNA TEMPLETON: CONTEMPORARY SUBURBIUM
Signing their new Nazraeli Press collaboration!
3 to 5 pm
MIKE SLACK: THE TRANSVERSE PATH and TIM CARPENTER: LOCAL OBJECTS
Signing their two new The Ice Plant books!
5 to 7 pm
SAM CONTIS IN DISCUSSION WITH KATE WOLF + BOOK SIGNING FOR DEEP SPRINGS
5 to 7 pm
BOOK SIGNING WITH THOMAS DEMAND, ANTHONY HERNANDEZ, FUMI ISHINO, AND MARK RUWEDEL

Join Rejuvenation for a Holiday Launch Party with Hillery Sproatt
2017-12-07 17:30 - 20:00 | Rejuvenation, 8780 Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Free
On Thursday, December 7th from 5:30 to 8 pm, stop into the Rejuvenation showroom for an evening of complimentary wine, live music, exclusive shopping perks, and to meet one of their new designer collaborators, Hillery Sproatt.
Hillery will be holding a watercolor workshop providing everything you need to paint your own one-of-a-kind holiday cards.
Mark your calendars, and RSVP here!

Local Mercato Pop Up at HD Buttercup - CANCELLED
2017-12-06 17:00 - 22:00 | H.D. Buttercup | Coco Republic, 3225 Helms Avenue, Los Angeles,, CA, 90034, United States
We’re sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled due to the fires. Our hearts go out to those affected. We will keep you posted about rescheduling the event.
On Wednesday, December 6th from 5 to 10 pm, head over to HD Buttercup for a little shopping, sipping, and tasting as they welcome Local Mercato for a holiday pop-up extravaganza. Featuring over 25 designers, Local Mercato’s gift shop is a carefully curated selection of items sure to fulfill all your gift-giving needs.

Block Printing + Sewing Workshop at Helms Bakery District
2017-12-02 10:00 - 16:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Saturday, December 2nd from 10 am to 4 pm, please join us in welcoming Akogare Trading Co. for a one-day-only Block Printing + Sewing Workshop.
In the morning, fiber artist and educator Carrie Burckle will introduce block printing techniques on unfinished textiles. Students will design and carve their own foam blocks, then experiment with color and pattern. Come afternoon, students will work with fashion designer and master sewer Yoshimi Radstrom of Kaban+ to transform their newly printed textile into a finished piece or pieces. Patterns will be available for an apron, simple wrap shirts, scarf, or simple zippered or drawstring pouches. Students may also bring their own fabric (natural fibers only) if they’d like to experiment with overprinting.
We’ll supply the raw materials you’ll need, including a selection of zippers and cording – as well as a light lunch, beverages, and great conversation! $50 material fee payable to instructors at the class.
This class is for beginning and intermediate students. Click HERE to register.
Fee: $150
PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER HERE. No refunds will be honored within 24 hours of the beginning of the workshop.

Harbour Outdoor Invites You Over for an Aussie Party
2017-11-30 17:30 - 20:30 | CA
Free
On Thursday, November 30th from 5:30 to 8:30 pm, please join Harbour Outdoor for an opening reception featuring their new indoor furniture collection!
Meet the design duo, brothers Nicholas and Harrison Condos, over Aussie cocktails and light bites and hear all about how they expanded their outdoor living vibe, taking it inside your home with the same luxurious look and feel.
FREE Parking is available in the lot near the Harbour showroom entrance. Please RSVP to camille@harbouroutdoor.com.

Meet Publisher Michael Mack and Special Guests at Arcana Books!
2017-11-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
On Saturday, November 25th from 4 to 6 pm, please join Arcana: Books on the Arts in celebration of the launch of an extraordinary exhibition of books, prints, and special editions spanning the history of the eminent London-based publishing house, MACK Books.
Among the guests in attendance will be publisher Michael Mack, photographers Thomas Demand, Anthony Hernandez, Torbjørn Rødland, Fumi Ishino, and more! This MACKstravaganza will continue through December 24th with rarities for sale, book signings, discussions, and special events.
We hope to see you Saturday and stay tuned for info on upcoming MACK events!

Arcana Books Hosts a Conversation with Author Emily Spivak
2017-11-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Head over to Arcana: Books on the Arts on Sunday, November 12th from 3 to 5pm to celebrate the publication of Emily Spivak’s Worn In New York, and enjoy a conversation with the author and contributors including artist Catherine Opie (whose leather jacket graces the cover), producer Alicia Van Couvering, and writer + artist Mel Shimkovitz!
“The boots a passenger had on when his plane landed on the Hudson River, the tank top Andy Warhol’s assistant wore to one of their nightclub outings together, the jacket a taxi driver put on to feel safe as he worked the night shift…”
These and over sixty other clothing-inspired narratives make up Worn in New York – the latest volume from New York Times bestselling author Emily Spivack. In these first-person accounts, contributors in and out of the public eye share surprising, personal, wild, poignant, and funny stories behind a piece of clothing that reminds them of a significant moment of their New York lives. Worn in New York offers a contemporary cultural history of the city – its changing identity, temper, and tone, and its irrepressible vitality – by paying tribute to these well-loved clothes and the people who wore them.
Included are contributions from Adam Horovitz, Amy Heckerling, Andre Royo, Anna Sui, Aubrey Plaza, Catherine Opie, Coco Rocha, Dick Cavett, Eileen Myles, Fab 5 Freddy, Gay Talese, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, J.D. Samson, Jenji Kohan, Jenna Lyons, Kyp Malone, Lena Dunham, Pee Wee Kirkland, Thelma Golden, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and many, many more.
About the Author
Emily Spivack is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and editor who writes a recurring column for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Arcana Hosts a Popup with Jewelry Designer Larisa Laivins
2017-11-11 15:00 - 18:00 | Arcana: Books on the Arts, 8675 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Tis’ the season to start your holiday shopping!
If you’re searching for a special, one-of-a-kind gift, head over to Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday, November 11 from 3 to 6pm for a one-day popup with jewelry designer Larisa Laivins. Check out Larisa’s new collection while enjoying refreshments and light bites.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to hurricane relief.

Little Bite Gallery presents Artist Edmound Veyna
2017-11-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
Join us on Saturday, November 4th from 7 to 10 pm for the inaugural opening of Little Bite Gallery. Their first show welcomes the artwork of Edmound Veyna in his long-anticipated debut solo exhibition titled UTOPIA: A perfect paradise that doesn’t exist, but which we all dream of anyway.
Edmound’s paintings transport viewers to a familiar and beckoning place, while at the same time confronting the limitations of being human. This disenchantment creates an unexpected effect; it alludes to the power of creativity humans harness to manifest vivid inner realities. His work humbles and inspires, breaks down and builds up perception. What are viewers left with? The depth and beauty of interacting with a static and vast landscape. They are left to manifest their own desire, awe, and nostalgia; they are left to wonder what they might create if their inner realities were as vivid and unapologetic as Edmound’s.
UTOPIA will be on view for the opening celebration and November 12th from 2:30 pm to 6 pm.
ALL OTHER TIMES by appointment only through November 16th at Helms Design Center.
To schedule a viewing, please call or text Alyssa at (203) 900-4980.

LA Design in the Age of GLOW: The Eighties!
2017-10-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
Free
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
Join us on Thursday, October 26 from 6 to 8 pm, as we welcome Louise Sandhaus and a panel of 1980s design giants – April Greiman, Jeri Heiden, Jayme Odgers, Paul Prejza, and Peter Shire – to remind us of the iconic LA design heyday and explore the motivations and design scene of this moment.
In the 1980s the world’s design eye did a double-take as it swung from New York and Europe to Los Angeles and the west coast. It was bright! It was fun! It glowed! Full of swashes, squiggles, pixels, and teaming with attitude and freshness, LA was shining. April Greiman was creating a new visual language via the freshly-released Apple Mac computer; Jayme Odgers’ new wave design and experimental collage photography was making the scene; Peter Shire gave tangible ceramic form to a California vibe; Sussman/Prezja’s design for the 1984 Olympics may have garnered more global attention than the sports themselves; all of which was accompanied by the visual sound track of album cover design and art direction by Jeri Heiden.
Please RSVP as space is limited.
Free Valet Parking is located inside the interior parking garage at 8711 Washington Boulevard, next to the Room & Board showroom.
Reception: 6:00 pm | Discussion: 6:30

About the Panelists:

April Greiman
In the ’80s I was the two inches taller, long curly-haired director of CalArts Visual Communications Program, with clients such as; Pacific Design Center, Ron Rezek Lighting, MoMA, Fortuny Museum Venice, Walker Art Center (Graphic Design in America exhibition branding; Design Quarterly Magazine) and Sci-Arc’s first identity branding. Additionally, my introduction into the built environment projects began with Barton Myers Architects working on the environmental and graphics package for the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Working in photography, video, computer and hybrid processes, a completely wacky body of work and interests helped me pioneer a career, which, to this day, is hard to live down but rewarded me with inclusion in Apple’s first documentary film, Mac@30.

Jeri Heiden
Jeri Heiden started as a junior designer at Warner Bros. Records in 1982 and rose to VP, chief art director in 1986. She designed packaging, merchandise and advertising campaigns for artists on the WB roster, in addition to supervising and growing the art department. a-ha, Brian Wilson, Chris Isaak, k.d. lang, Madonna, and Van Halen are among hundreds of artists she has collaborated with.

Jayme Odgers
By the 1980s, I moved from doing graphic design (1964-1973) to becoming a photographer. Of course, I couldn’t forget the designer in me, so I became an unwitting photo-designer starting in the mid-1970s. My concerns were about combining graphic design’s up-down-left-right, with photography’s foreground-middle-ground-background.

Paul Prejza, Sussman/Prejza
In 1980, Sussman/Prejza was on the threshold of momentous growth and becoming a major player in environmental graphic design. They had just landed two new clients who would provide them with a significant portion of their work over the decades – working on office buildings and retail shopping centers. Paul, had been working full time at Deborah Sussman & Co. for six years and before that moonlighting there for three years. The firm was incorporated and renamed Sussman/Prejza & Co in 1980. The 80s would be the most significant decade of their careers. They created the image. They WERE the image.

Peter Shire
The 1980s: 80 solo exhibitions (some very good, and some better: completed 30 public sculptures; and collected by 40 public institutions. I am !! years old, and I have tied my shoes 18,528 times (more or less) since I was 5 years old. My friend Ettore Sottsass, described my work as plainly as I see it. His work is, “sort of a collage, a sort of unstable collage of more or less broken geometric volumes, more or less broken mathematical surfaces, and then there are lines crossing everything and there are memories on top; most of the time the memories are of pale Californian colors and landscapes, maybe of beaches, or of sundaes, or maybe of Sundays with candy-girls skating all around.”

An Evening with AIGA and Artist & Designer Rebeca Méndez
2017-10-18 18:45 - 21:00 | Helms Design Center, 8745 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90232
On Wednesday, October 18 from 6:45 to 9 pm, join us in welcoming AIGA Los Angeles for an evening with artist, designer, and UCLA professor Rebeca Méndez and enjoy live music by singer/songwriter Analiz Castillo, who will be performing some of Méndez’s favorite songs as we kick off the night.
Rebeca Méndez will present recent projects and introduce her new initiative, the UCLA CounterForce Lab—a research and fieldwork studio based at Design Media Arts and the School of the Arts and Architecture. The lab is dedicated to using design and art to develop creative collaborations, new fields of study, and methods to research, create, and execute projects around the social and ecological impacts of anthropocene climate change.
Méndez’s art is driven by her interest in perception and embodied experience–exploring design and media art in public space, critical approaches to public identities and landscape, and artistic projects based on field investigation methods. Register now to get an inside look at the design philosophy of one of Los Angeles’ own design icons. Click here to purchase tickets.
AGENDA
6:45 PM: Live music by Analiz Castillo
7:30 PM: Introductions
7:50 PM: Rebeca Méndez
8:30 PM: Q&A
8:45 PM: Closing Remarks
8:50 PM: Giveaways
9:00 PM: After Party at Father’s Office
TICKET PRICING
Members (Contributing & Supporting): $15
Members (Sustaining & above): Free
Non-Members: $25
