Create your own pocket sized structure featuring brand new AITA artwork!

Directions:

1. Print full size pdf and cut out the template.

2. Fold on each solid line, tucking tabs under the adjacent triangles.  Tape along the inside where the seam of each triangle meets.

3. As you fold and tape, the geodesic shape will being to come together.

4. Wow friends and relatives with your architectural prowess.

Tag us in a photo of your finished AITA sphere on Instagram or Twitter, and we’ll send the first 10 posts a free limited edition SPACESHIP EARTH tee!

We couldn’t be more excited to be part of the upcoming exhibition, Here and There, a travel-oriented pop-up by Field and Various Projects.

The exhibition will include an array of artists Field_CocktailSet_03and designers invited to create objects based on the theme of travel. Field’s own line of well-crafted objects will be on view, including a limited edition white oak Art in the Age cocktail kit built by Jonah Takagi.

Inspired by classic Danish meets Shaker design, the self-contained kit combines luxury and utility, providing all the essential components for crafting cocktails in the field.  The kit features a carefully curated selection of bar tools and ingredients; including a Stelton cocktail shaker, HS stackable tumblers, Field loop bottle opener, Opinel Folding Knife, Morris Kitchen Rhubarb syrup, and Juniper Ridge White Sage and Wild Mint tea.

Join us Saturday, May 18^th from 6-8pm for an opening reception featuring AITA cocktails.

Various Projects, 2 Bond Street, New York, NY

Contributors to Here and There include: Timothee Colmant, Daniel Gafner, Colgate Searle, Jonah Takagi, Okolo, Hannah Waldron, Katrin Greiling, The Good Flock, Studio Grom and more.

This artists’-haven boutique would not be complete without a carefully selected library of books including the complete Walter Benjamin Archive, hand-picked art texts, and hard-to-find titles from revered publishers like DAP and Gingko Press, as well as imported books and magazines.

Check out a few recent additions you can purchase at Art in the Age in-store and online:

Volume 7 of Kinfolk

Issue 5 of Wilder Quarterly

Issue 61 of Monocle, a preview of this issue’s content can be viewed here.

FURNESSADELPHIA: A Street Art Salute to the Banks of Frank Furness


Between 1878 and 1906 Furness designed nearly 200 commissions in Philadelphia.
In these projects logistics determined plans and modern materials were freely incorporated
into design. The freedom to rethink architecture that was rooted in the experimental
culture of industry and engineering and to the rest of the country, Philadelphia
architecture expressed the present and future.

Frank Furness also designed many iconic Philadelphia banks, many of which still stand today.
This exhibition will showcase photographs of demolished and surviving Frank Furness banks.
 Beyond the walls of Art in the Age, a select group of local artists, curated by Streets Dept,
will create onsite interpretations of Furness buildings in their own distinct styles. Featuring
the work of: Ishknits, NoseGo, Nom Now, Harlequinade.

OPENING RECEPTION: FIRST FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5TH FROM 6-8PM

ART IN THE AGE x GRAIN SURFBOARDS SWEEPSTAKES from Art In The Age on Vimeo.

As part of an ongoing collaboration with GRAIN, Art in the Age has commissioned a custom 5″10″ “Waka” fish board to showcase the beauty of natural, handcrafted, sustainable wood surfboards. Construction of the board began in the Art in the Age shop in Philadelphia, and will be completed in GRAIN’s workshop in Maine.

From July 15th – 29th, 2012, Art in the Age and GRAIN fans will have a chance to enter to win this one of a kind handmade board, just in time for late summer surfing!

Enter to win here on our Art in the Age Facebook Page!

*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal US residents (excluding CA), 21 years of age or older. Void in CA and where prohibited.

March 2-31, 2012

After obtaining a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Louise Pezzi pursued her passion for the iron arts as an apprentice under Antonio Arellano-Franco, a master architectural blacksmith in Toledo Spain.

Now a master blacksmith in her own right, Pezzi specializes in a true custom architectural blacksmithing; hand-forging and traditionally finishing commissions in her Philadelphia shop. Pezzi’s original fine wrought iron work may be found in several national historic landmark churches, and her forged mechanical door chimes have received numerous awards.

For her exhibition at Art in the Age, Pezzi has created a limited edition run of hand-forged bottle openers, crafted out of solid iron railroad spikes. Each opener is a functional art piece, showcasing the intricacies and nuances of the blacksmithing craft. The exhibition will document the production of the openers, which will be hand stamped and numbered editions for Art in the Age.

Join us for an opening reception at the Art in the Age shop on First Friday, March 2nd, 6-8PM

“I decided to really put the question out there, because I want to know what you think. My goal is to continue a dialogue and to come, at the end, to some kind of conclusion or, more likely, a starting point.”

Which Philadelphia based design (eg. product, interior, installation, graphic design, textile, lamp, etc.) do you think best represents the city’s design culture at the moment?

You might be wondering what actually qualifies as “design”. This interview with Charles Eames below gives a very clear description of how design functions in the world.

To submit your favorite Philadelphia designs (be sure to explain what and why) visit the Design Phan blog or Facebook page.

The simple home and beautiful photography of John Coffer.

COFFER from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo.
Produced and directed by Ben Wu and David Usui, of Lost & Found Films.